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I am currently in a town called Conocoto which is in a valley just outside of Quito, Ecuador. Here is a picture:
 
(Photo provided by Amanda Dorough)
 
My team is working with a local church to build a new church building and have VBS with the local children. We are living in the church building that the congragation currently worships in. They have put up black plastic and sheets to block off a section of the sancutuary so that we can have a place to sleep. No one here knows English but my teammate Meg knows a good bit and I am picking it up quicker than I thought I would. I will post more pictures and videos as soon as I can but for now here is what a day in the life of team battlecry looks like:
 
Daily Schedule:
6:30am
– Wake up, Quiet time

7:30am
– Exercise – This has been yoga so far since we work construction after       

                 breakfast)

8:00am
– Breakfast (Desayuno n Espaniol)

9:00am
– Work on building the new church

                 and we rotate cooking with the ladies
of the church one person per day
 
 
The hole we are helping dig for the septic system and my boots after coming back up. 

12:00pm
– Lunch

1:00pm
– Siesta! (or we use this time to read or journal or go to the local internet
café)

3:00pm
– VBS (IF kids show up that is) 

6:00pm
– Dinner

7:00pm
– Visit with people from the church

7:30pm
– Team time and Feedback (each day of the week, Sunday – Friday, each of
us 

    has a day that we get to choose something
to do as a team. Sometimes it is  

    playing cards, or reading out loud, or
watching a movie, or worship, etc…  

   And feedback is when we discuss as a team the
day and things we saw in each

   otherthat were either positive or sometimes
constructive.)

10:00pm
– We usually go to bed around this time. I get in my sleeping bag and fall into

                   my hammock that is just high
enough to make it thoroughly entertaining.
                                                                
                                                                                       My Bed! 

Some
fun things about life in Ecuador:

1)I sometimes catch myself thinking in a Spanish accent

2)Life is much simpler here and things tend to move slower.

3)It takes all day to simply prepare the food for the day. You
can’t just pop it in the microwave or the oven; you have to peel, cut, dice,
pound, etc. everything you are cooking. But everything is so fresh! It is
great!

4)God is helping me with my Spanish! It takes a while, but I am
able to communicate some with the people here.

5)Traffic laws here are optional. Stop signs and stop lights are
more like times to yield… but not always. Car horns are used to let people know
that you don’t plan to stop or to tell them that you are upset that they did
not stop for you.

6)Showers are optional and baby wipes count as showers.

7)Perro’s (or dogs) are prevalent and as soon as you are ready for
bed they all join in one chorus.

8)A rock is our security system. If you hear the door hit the rock
in the middle of the night you might have trouble.

9)The words spoken most often are “como se di sey …”

10) Baking a cake takes 17 hrs
ish… See the video at the bottom of this blog! Here is a picture:
 
                                                               
                                                              Kaitlyn pounding the cake batter!

Many
Blessings,

Kim
 
Here are some more pictures of life in Conocoto, Ecuador: 
 
                              
             Gordie, the pig that hangs around the building site.                         The girls hard at work!
 
                                              
                                                  One of my favorite pictures! Laying the foundation!!!