We hiked up the mountain again today and this time it was made a wee bit easier since I had been up the day before and had some tunes! We started off the day doing pretty much the same thing, chopping down guava plants big and small on the other side of the steep mountain. It rained for most of the morning so luckily I brought my rain jacket. We had a break and then chopped down three larger guava plants with our machetes which was harder since the branches are n...

Today was my first working day at the Hacienda Esperanza and it's was tough! At 4:00 am the rooster woke me up and we had to be back up at 6:30 am to work around 7:00 a.m. We hiked up the mountain to the top of the Hacienda and it was really tough because it was steep and there were many rocks on the way up. I was second to last up with about 6 of the volunteers going up but that's okay since they had been up pretty much every day for the past several weeks. We...

I was picked up today by a pickup truck at 9:30 am to head to the Hacienda and was a short drive there. Today I didn't have to work because I got there around 10 and everyone left around 7:00 am to start working. I hung out with Eduardo, who's family owns the Hacienda. I think he noticed I was bored and asked if I wanted to go walking around. We hiked around the side of the mountain to where his house will soon be, but there is only a foundation now. Beautiful sp...

I started off my day bright and early at 4:00 am and caught my flight to Galapagos this morning around 8:00 am. We had a short stop in Guayaquil while other people boarded the plane. Leaving Quito was very pretty since we flew over the mountains. I got to the airport around 10:30 a.m. and was looking a person standing with my name on a card but there was no one waiting! I ended up waiting til 11:30 until finally asking someone if they could help me to call the vo...

Well last night in the Ecole Volunteer house was a hot one! I woke up early because of the heat and trucked it down to the town to search for an open market for food this week before Ecuador played today. I miscalculated the time of the Ecuador game which was at 10:00 am not 12. People were already drinking and work...forget about it! So therefore, no store was open selling food. I instead hung out at the local ice cream shop/cafe where I get my wifi service, had...