So this is life! Ecuadorian life at it’s finest!
Rainforest
Learning Spanish (while teaching English)
Beautiful people
Mosquito nets
Children’s Church Programs (songs, bible story drama, crafts, futbol, and good times)
Banana trees
Crowing roosters
Singing special music (at almost every church service, english or spanish, they just want to hear you sing)
Machettes
Being called “Hermana” (by all the church people, and not gringa)
Guinea Pig for dinner
Fresh Juice with every meal
Waiting for the bus to come (for an hour sometimes, no bus schedule, rain sometimes included)
Waterfalls
Fried Flying Ants (pretty good, I must say, tasted like liver and popcorn)
Building a carpentry shop (out of bamboo and tin, which we first carried across a creek)
House cat vs neighbour hood dog (in the kitchen)
Church painting party
Futbol (where the kids playing in flipflops can run faster than you)
Bucket showers
Palm Trees in your backyard
Fresh Flowers (hand picked from the little boy at church)
Kittens (born under your bed)
Suspension bridge jumping (into the creek)
Teaching English in the schools
Hair braiding (at break time or meal time or whatever time)
Birthday Cake (the birthday person first takes a bite straight out of the cake, beware, sometimes their whole face gets smashed in it)
Rides in the back of a pickup (through the rainforest)
Testimonies (be ready, you maybe called on)
Watching chicks hatch
Holding beautiful Ecuadorian babies
Laundry (takes 3 days to dry)
Kill the spider (before your friend uses the bathroom)
Teaching on fasting (over dinner)
Fresh Cacoa (so yummy)
Making Pizza and cookies for 35 people (without a recipe)
Joy is found in the simple things. These are things I have found joy in this month. (Pictures will follow!)
