Hello All!!! Well as you may or may not know I left the animal centre a couple of days early for various reasons that I won´t go into now but it means that I have had a little bit of time to look around the north of the country and I have stationed myself in Otavalo.Otavalo is beautiful. It´s located about two hours north of Quito and is famous for its Saturday market (today). Loads of villagers from around about come to sell their wares and the marke...

Hello all. Sorry it´s been a while. Been rather busy. So I suppose I should start with last week. On Thursday I was meant to be in the kitchen but I was ill....again so I didn´t do it. I wasn´t the only one - I think there was a bug going round but I still had a wicked last couple of days in Jatun Sacha. On the Friday I went into a local school to teach English. The school´s not in the best of situations. There are about 7 levels with only...

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...