Firstly, so sorry I've not written on here for sooooo long been very busy!! Secondly, I want to pay respects to the girls that died in the bus crash. It was really very terrible and shook us all. The newspapers over here have no respect for peoples privacys and unfortunately we were bombarded with pictures of the girls dead bodies. Was horrific and sickening. Thirdly, Abi and Nige so good to finally here from you!!! I began to think you had forgotten me:(! ...

Firstly, thank you very much for footballupdates:) Very happy that we won! even is it was by the skin of our teeth!! Bob thank you for your drinking advise....only thing is I´m already getting fat from all the blinking carbohydrates they feed you here..I´m not sure I want to add to that!! Despite the advise went out on friday night with my coordinator and then on to a club called "Van Gogh" afterwards. Didnt drink cocktails...jus an Ecuad...

Well...I´ve had a very long two weeks since the Amazon. Was somewhat depressing coming back to a cold rainy Quito after the hot amazon. And I´ve had a somewhat uneventful two weeks really. Quito was so depressing that our friend Carl decided to return back to live in the jungle with an indigenous community!!...JEALOUS!! Stef and I cooked some pancakes on Sunday and Monday...they kind of a resembled a cross between and omelette and a very soggy pancak...

Thank you all soooooo much for my wonderful birthday messages!!! I´m going to party in a cuban bar tonight:) Wish you could all be here to celebrate!! Lots of loves and hugs and all. Miss you x x x x x x

WOWEE!!! I´ve had such an incredible week!! I´ve spent the week in the Amazon was so incredible!! Ok....so it all started on the saturday afternoon when we caught a taxi to the bus station Cumanda in Quito and the taxi driver warned Stef and I how dangerous this place was and to be VERY careful (YIKES!!) We manage to find the otheres at the ticket officve only to find that Carl (the only person whos able to speak spanish fluently and the only man as ...