Tuesday, May 5, 2009

Well, I am trying to get some photos up for you guys but am having difficulties with the computer here. They will be up before too long though. I took a trip to Quito over the weekend to visit friends and find out more information about my visa. Everything went very well. I had a great time with my friends and ate a wonderful dinner Sunday night at the Swissohotel. It was a four course meal with sushi, shrimp, and much more. It was a nice change from monkey and larva. I am now back in the Amazon and searching for a chalkboard here in Puyo to make teaching English a little easier. So far I have not had too much luck but still have three hours to find one before the bus goes back into the jungle. At the moment things have been a little difficult in the Amazon. The culture is very much one of a ¨mans world¨ that it is often hard to be taken seriously as a woman. But as always it is an experience and I only need to work harder to get my point across. And I still am very much enjoying the family and life of the jungle. I beleive I will go to travel around Ecuador a little after this week and visit other volunteer organizations and speak with people who have more experience in this area to get new ideas. Also while travelling I will be advertising for Chinimp Tuna. A good friend is a guide here in Ecuador and I have been invited to go with him for awhile. I think I will take up the invitation because I will then be with tourist/extranjeros everyday and can hopefully send some of them to the volunteer organization of Chinimp Tuna. We are coming up on the high season for tourist and volunteers and are hoping to have the volunteer house full for the next few months. I think the only problem we are havign is advertising. Chinimp Tuna is part of Ecuador Volunteer but at the moment they are not a real popular organization due to some bad business they have done with volunteers and not giving all the details of costs and also details of the volunteer work. This is why I would like to do a little of my own advetising. If anyone has some ideas of how I can do this other let me know. I will be in Baños again this weekend because it is my birthday and I want to go rock climbing and budgy jumping. I am not sure I will beable to do the bungy jumping. But if I can get the courage up I will. My heart pounds just thinking of it so I probably won´t do it...So, hopefully while I am in Baños I can find a computer that works well and can add some photos because I have some wonderful ones.