my last week in tena so went out a lot to cram in as much dancing as i could!on tuesday i was about to start my class at talag when a woman turned up asking the school to go to the community centre. some americans from the church performed a puppet show for all the children in the area and made them all balloon hats! they then did all sorts of prayers in english with the women. i thought it was a bit odd though because the locals were all catholic and the am...

holawent to Archidona yesterday for a picnic although the guys here still don´t understand the concept. we ended up sitting on chairs at a table! after lunch we went into see the Cuevas de Jumandi. or we went into them, you can´t see anything because it was too dark. at the time i wished i didn´t know that someone died in there a few months ago! most people go with old clothes and wellies but we hadn´t planned it so it was bikinis and bare...

hiyawent rafting yesterday with daniel, diego and some english girls. didn´t fall out this time and nearly die -yay! i think someone has photos of yesterday so i´ll put them up when i get hold of them.  it´s election day today so fiestas tonight! the bars have all been closed this weekend (something about not wanting drunk people voting??)not long now until i´m back so i´ll see you all soon!steph x

holathe weather is so hot here at the moment, definitely hotter than last month! i got back after teaching today to be told that the new monkey had escaped and somehow managed to squeeze through the bars of my window and eaten my fruit! i´m not sure how much mess was made as it was all cleaned up when i got back but my skirt had been washed and the floor cleaned!there were no classes on monday so a few of us went to the beach and had a picnic. strangely the...

hiyait was my birthday yesterday so i went out on saturday night with friends. they bought me a huge birthday cake that was enough to feed the rest of the bar as well as us! around about midnight (not really sure when that was as everyones watches were different with a range of about 30mins!) i was whipped with a belt 19 times which is apparently an ecuadorean tradition!yesterday i went to the beach with everyone. diego wanted to take me class IV rafting but...