Tech Trip!

Our group!, a photo by chelopate on Flickr.

Here´s a pic from our first tech trip. This is immediately post-banana harvest. Yep, we cut down all those bunches from the trees! Pretty awesome.

The tech trips are a chance for us to visit different parts of Ecuador and practice some of the skills we´ll be using at our sites. This trip we went to Santo Domingo, Pedro Vicente and Puerto Quito, which are about 3.5-4 hours west of Quito. We gave 4 charlas, or talks, about nutrition and hygiene to school children, mothers and young people at an evening high school. The trip ended at a finca, or farm, which is where we did the banana thing. I swam in the lovely, clean river and got attacked by a variety of strange bugs and mosquitoes. I didn´t want to leave!

Next week we´ll be finding out where we´re going to be stationed in Ecuador for the next 2 years. Wednesday we´ll know our sites and Thursday we´ll take off on our own for a week-long site visit. I´m so anxious to find out where I´ll be!

More stories to come, ya mismo.

Siga, no mas :)