Haku means ¨lets go¨in Quichua, and is the extent of my Quichua knowledge to date. The last couple days have been slightly uneventful, but I bet I can still make them sound interesting! Here goes.
Michelle and I have decided to work at the same childcare center without consulting anyone. The program is so unorganized (worse than Dominican Republic if possible) that no one seems to even notice. I was originally supposed to be with the indigenous community to do a human rights internship, but I havent heard from the director in days. Michelle was originally placed in a different center, but the communication has been so poor that we were given entirely different placements upon arriving the first day to Otavalo. In conclusion, we are both at the same place with some little indigenous kiddies and three other teachers. We figure already that we are learning more than helping, and thats just fine for now.
We both used the bathroom for the first time today....a little hole in the ground that is ¨flushed¨by pouring water from a bucket into the hole. SMELLY and may I add unnecessary since all of the kids just pop squats wherever and whenever. Some even elect to stand rather than squat...and keep all of there clothes on! Its really fun when we get to hold them later and have pee pee and poo poo soaking through our clothes to our skin. We get home everyday super hungry and barely even clean off. Its kind of gross, yes, but we are having lots of fun with it.
We went to a indigenous folk concert the other night with our host dad MArco. It was slightly awkward, but the music was great! I had mint flavoured beer. MMMM.
We also trekked to a the PEGUCE waterfall in the Condor Park. It was beautiful and the mountains are really a crazy sight to behold! Michelle and I are starting to get comfortable in Ecuador, but we miss you all a lot!
