Finally at the galapagos, very surreal. The airport is just a wooden shack, luggage collection is just bags dumped on the floor. I had to catch a bus, then a boat to another island, then a taxi to get to my home-stay. Throughout the journey I was admiring the landscape, and the Jurassic Park theme tune kept playing on repeat in my head. Home-stay is immense, hot running water and my very own kichen/living space, as not many volunteers are here. There's one gi...

First night in a foreign place. Everything this company does is through home-stay accommodation. So BIG language barrier. I have my own room and next door is 2 girls doing nature reservation projects. In another house there's 4 others who are all going to galapagos, but a different island to do wildlife work. The most interesting thing we did today was a Trip to the 'middle of the earth' museum. Where we stood at 0' 0' 0' degrees on any map/gps. We watched how d...

So first flight done and i'm waiting in miami airport. I am not a fan of flying over water, and that's all this flight was! I tend to want to make the same few jokes on a plane, but don't think many people will get my humour. I managed to suppress the urge to use the 'B' word. I also didn't go through with a final destination-esc 'we have to get off this plane!' skit. Lastly, I didn't even tell anyone that 'there's something wrong with the left falanji!'....one ...

FFS! I wake up to the greatest of headlines today: 'Ecuador Protests' 'Equador presiden dons gas mask' 'Equador army frees President Correa from hospital siege' News in short: President is looking to cut benifits for Equadors police force, police are unhappy and turned against the president. They tear gased him and then took control of the hospital he was being treated at. The army came to rescue him and there was a good 25minutes of open fire on the streets...

So, less than a week before I go, what decides to make BBC headlines? The recent happenings of Vampire Bats spreading rabies throughout South America and the Amazon as deforestation is decreasing their food source. Thus making them turn to humans to feed off (causing quite a few unpretty fatalities) Flash back to a couple of months ago....'£130 for a rabies vaccination!? I don't think so. If its not essential then I ain't having it!'-Ditch, 2010. So now I go c...