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Ecuador,

You are full of beautiful plants, fresh air, all kinds of delicious fruits, and gigantic bugs. I enjoy waking up every morning to bananas picked off right from the trees. I have paranoia every night that the gigantic bugs will craw into my sleeping bag. But I´m enjoying this. Everyday is a new adventure, for I´m only 5 miles from untouched Amazon rainforest. 

I´ve learned how to cook chicken.

Step one: find the biggest chicken
Step two: put chicken between your legs
Step three: cut chicken´s head off while singing Jesus loves me ( It makes it feel better)
Step four: discard the head and place body in boiling water
Step five: place the boiled chicken on the same place  where I wash my clothes and pluck feathers off.
Step six: pull off skin of feet and cut them off
Step seven: take out the guts

I  no longer like chicken

Ecuador,

The people here don´t have any problems making you feel welcomed. I´m always greeted with a smile. They work sun up to sun down in order to live. Money is always sparse and help is minimal. Because life is so hard here, the children grow up and move to the city. This leaves their parents to work on the farms alone. Most feel hopeless and abandoned by God. This hopelessness causes alcoholism to be very popular. The childern run around without supervision without the knowledge of what loving parents are like.


Ecuador,
 
I know I can´t do much to help you but I will give you all I have. All I can do is encourge these hopeless people. Tell them that God are right here with them, that He love them, and hears your cries. I can help of the farm and show love to the childern. Five nights a week we play with the childern even though we are exausted from the days work. I think I´m going to be a pro soccer player after this race. All I can do is show you God´s amazing love to the people I meet. I pray that this love will spread throught all of Ecuador.

Love,
alyssa