Thankfully I managed to find my way to school easily on the first day?and no sooner had I been introduced to my teacher than I was immediately whisked away to begin my first lesson.?At all times my teacher speaks to me in Spanish so at first it was pretty difficult to understand anything but once it?s all broken down into smaller chunks it makes the understanding much easier. If you?re forced to listen to something then eventually you start to recognise certain w...

After what was really just a?quick flight from Santiago in Chile up to?Quito in Ecuador, I arrived totally shattered. I?d had to get up at 2.45am to get to the airport in time for my plane and after a three hour stopover in Lima and then a short delay it was almost 17 hours later when I finally reached my destination...My first memory?of Quito will be of the rain as no sooner had I left the airport than the heavens opened and it rained as if?it had never rained b...