Hello all. Sorry it's been a while. Had some problems with the internet and electricity. Anyways. On Friday I had the fun task of cleaning out the chickens. We had to get them all out of the coop and then some of them decided they wanted to have an adventure by going into the forest so we had to chase them back! After that we had to clean them all out and put fresh sawdust down and feed and water them then try and get them back in. Once they saw the food though t...

Hello all! Well it was really rainy here the other day but the last two days have been very hot, which has made the cold showers a bit more pleasant!!! On Tuesday I was in the organic garden for the first time and we had an induction about it. Pedro was telling us how it works. They are experimenting with different growing conditions - comparing traditional and more modern uses etc. - and they are hoping to be able to produce tomatoes and passionfruits and ot...

Hello all! On Friday I went into Tena to do my washing - I had 6kilos of it! It was also absolutely boiling. I keep forgetting I'm nearly on the equator! The weather here is very hot and humid and then it rains. And when it rains it really rains!!! One day last week we had 45cm of it!!! It sounded like I was living under a waterfall the sound of it hitting the roof above me! It's really incredible. The weather also means that stuff is a lot bigger here - not only...

Hello all! How are you all doing? Thank you for all the messages you have left me on my board I am sorry I can't reply to them all cos it's quite expensive to use the internet! :( It sounds like you are having fun and I hope year 7 is going well. I like my mum as much as you all seem to! I don't have anything very interesting to report as I was in the kitchen all day today from 5:00am this morning to 7:00pm tonight. I had to chop stuff and do lots of pot washin...

Hi! It's aboslutely throwing it down here. I don't think I've ever seen rain like it! On Saturday I had my first Bosque (pronounced Bos-kay) which is Spanish for forest. I went in a group and we were in there for about 7 hours. I sweated soooooo much! It was hard work cos a lot was uphill but it was interesting. I've posted pictures of the animals we saw. Here they have hundreds of different animals and plants but they are very few in numbers so you don't always ...