Ecuador Highs, Lows and Bozos
Highs:
- All Squad Month: Our whole squad of 26 got to stay together this month, even though we were at different ministry sites
- Dunamis: The ministry we helped at this month, we got to set foundations for the wall that will surround the property to keep young girls who have been rescued out of sex trafficking safe.
- French Braiding teammates hair on the bus. (all cars and busses here are stick shift so the ride is never smooth)
- knowing that every Monday we would have soup for dinner (our ministry site was typically wet and cold, so we looked forward to soup night)
- Sleeping in my own bed for a whole month, we even got clean sheets and towels every week.
- worshiping on the roof of an unfinished house while looking at the beautiful lights from Quito at night
- Getting to use a heated blanket when staying the night at Dunamis.
- 5 hours of solitude when the month was packed with people.
- Getting to hang out with 13 beautiful, kind, and fun girls at Dunamis.
- Meeting the Westons who will be the house parents for the girls who will live at Dunamis full time
- Diego showing us around Old Town Quito and taking us to a restaurant that overlooked the city at night.
- Going to a Liga Futbol game.
- Getting to prove that 7 girls could do more than expected when doing manual labor for the month
- Getting spoiled on my birthday by getting dressed up and going to get really good gelato and to a really nice restaurant with my teammates and our ministry host.
Lows:
- Having to take 4 busses on the way to ministry which took 2 hours when if we were able to drive to ministry it would take only 25 minutes.
- laying concrete in the rain
- living in a house with 25 other people
- 24 out of 26 people on our squad all getting sick at the same time and there were only 7 toilets
- having to walk 5 to 8 large steep hills everyday
Bozos:
- Accidentally taking the wrong first bus and it taking us across town in the opposite direction. We ended up barley making our last bus up the mountain that day.
- Having to figure out the best way to take wheelbarrows of concrete down a steep hill covered in gravel and rocks our first day of manual Labor
- Cracking jokes while working with the men and them not laughing at all.
- Thinking you escaped the sickness, so you get ready for a day of manual labor and right before you are leaving the house it hits you so quickly you almost don’t make it to the toilet
- One person burping really loudly while we are woking and it grossing out another teammate to the point of her throwing up.
