Monday, June 8, 2015

Week 4 getting into week 5….. Fine..... Pre departure, I just did not want to call it that!


Our time here seems to be rushing by, I am not sure what the hurry is but, there is a saying ‘that time and tide shall wait for no man’, and I guess that can be applied to us.
Religion is a very big part or the dynamics of Ecuador. Especially, the Roman Catholic religion, which makes up the highest percentage. There are many beautiful churches here. And we have often entered just to admire the interior to ooh and ahh and sit for a while or to take photos if we can because the inside and out side are astounding.
My roommate Alana and I attended church during one of our free weekends and it was great. Working with the students at Calderon continues to be a joy, no two days are the same and they have been tiring really hard to improve their English. I will be hard to leave them for sure.

This past weekend we went to Banos .I get the sense that you cant come to Ecuador and not visit Banos. Prior to going, a lot of people asked if we had gone and many of the students at the school we volunteered at were very excited when they heard we were going there. Any ways we went, we saw, and we conquered the Falls. Our group decided to try canyoning, yes. Or, in laymen terms, this means climbing down the water falls .Yep! …Not one waterfall or two but about seven with varying level of heights, difficulty and different forces of water flowing over, Yeh!  We Canadian chicks did that, what a blast and we have the movie to prove it! Piece of cake, no problemo .We had a crash course and were properly harnessed ……but there were times I did ask my self why I was doing this… but it was a ton of fun. There are lots you can do in Banos such as bar hopping (lol), shopping, people watching, hiking, zip lining …anything. The people we met came from all around the world, Australia, the United States, England, Netherlands, Spain and Germany all there to have a great time. We enjoyed ourselves….some more than others before heading back to our home base in Quito

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