Well! Much has happened since my last entry. I will tell you about the placements first. I am no longer working at the boys orphanage. They are sweet but it is so badly organised there that no one tells the volunteers what to do except help the boys with their homework - which my spanish is not good enough for and which no one needs help with anyway. Other than that they seem to shower all morning so there is just a big empty square in which to wander aimlessly a...

I have had a very cute and smell-filled week. My walking around spanish teacher took me to the zoo at the local university which was much nicer and more spacious than I would have imagined. Also the pens are less secure and there arent that many zookeepers around so it was easy to poke our fingers through and stroke an ocelot (like a small jaguar - very pretty and very very smelly) and touch monkeys´ hands. This one monkey kept pushing a banana through the mesh ...

I´ve only been here a few days and I have done SO much its unbelievable! I am staying in a hostal right in the middle of town with three other girls who are doing the same project I am doing for the first 6 weeks and they´re all great. We are literally next door to everything and straight outside are 2 restaurants and lots of shops and only down the street are loads more. Its like a really concentrated shopping maze. We have been visiting possible placements fo...