I left off in Cuenca last time. Since then I have had a fairly hectic week and a bit of travelling. I headed off to Guayaquil to meet up with a girl called Mercedes but she called to sya that she was actually in her home town, 2 hours away from Guayquil in a province called Los Rios. Naturally I went, onyl to find that I was in the dodgiest part of Ecuador I have ever seen: swamps, bananas, shanty towns on stilts and alot of mosquitoes! I stayed in a ´´hotel´...

Well it has been an incredibly long time since I last updated my blog so there is alot to match up on (please excuse any spelling errors- takes far too long to try and correct them all!) Last time I left off I had just got back from the coast with the boys and that was almost a month ago. Soon after that I went for my first swim in the Rio Upano which runs along side Macas. To cut things short I got eaten alive by sandflies and the current almost drowned me, he...

Last time I left off having just returned from my trip to Riobamba with Anna. As I expected the first half of my week back involved alot of chilling in the house and watching films etc. On Thursday Tony and I went to a community called Pikiur which involved alot fo walking through some hefty mud. Eventually we made it and our day panned out to be one of physical activity, I was nackered by the end of the day! Not only did we play football for an hour in the midda...

For the past couple of weeks I have been mainly continuing with my work with the organisation called FODI. Monday involved a mini medical brigade to a community called Stuntstunts, which was fairly developed. We went with a doctos form the Ministry Of Health here, and he gave lectures on TB and general parasites, which was really interesting. It seems that the biggest spread of TB out here is the Shuar´s custom of spitting! Having seen it myself for the past...

I thought I would lave a quick blog just to keep things up to date. For the past week I have been working for an organisation called FODI which works with child development schemes in rural communties all over Ecuador. I have been based here in Macas, of course, and in the past week have visited 8 communities already, and next week will follow the same pattern. The first of of the communties involved 2 hours in a bus followed by 2 hours walking through the rainf...