Welcome To The Jungle

GOL!!!!! In the 93rd minute in La Casa Blanca in Quito, the away team put a laser into the upper 90 to tie the game. That was last sunday. Monday took us to the amazon... so, after another extended bus ride, we arrived in Puyo, the capital of this province. From there, one of the volunteers we´re staying with -- Jeremy, a pretty chill guy from Cali whose travels have lead him here -- jumped in our car, literally and lead us into the depths of the jungle. We´ve been staying in a small ¨house¨down a very steep and rocky grade with two amazing dogs, a shotty generator and 6 hammocks. On arrival we were greeted with a bunch of unconstructed beds and no hot meal in sight, but our spirits weren´t dampened. Divide and conquer. We now have 4 bunk beds, with a solo bed for miss J Hollywood, all in one room -- our first time yet (it gets steamy). And for the first time we are cooking for ourselves... which is bitter sweet, literally. Each morning we take our 20-minute hike up the driveway and then wait for the bus (or a passing car) and ride to school. We´ve been volunteering, painting, rock hauling, digging holes, pretending to be horsies for the kids, ya know, the usual. And at home we´ve taken over a small table for ping pòng, tournament results will be expected soon. But the Amazon is amazing, lush, green, and beautiful. Some bird sounds you can´t even imagine, and all types of creepy crawlies, who of course, join us in our newly constructed beds. And rain. Rain! It´s awesome though, the community is great, they´ve also been helping out on the school projects and just yesterday we went down for some good ol´ecuadorian volly! Drew left blood on the court, it was pretty intense, but pretty awesome. We´ve all been really happy and relaxed, both Patricio and Hannah got into their number 1 colleges! And hopefully we´re going white water rafting tomorrow.. crazy! Sort of miss you, but not really, but really really.
With love and shamrocks,
Patricio y Alejandro