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What To Do When: A Guide To Living

2015-11-22

Dance has been and will always be an important aspect of my life. So is smiling. Listen below to hear how the combination of these is allowing me to flourish in Ecuador. My guide to living…  

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12 hours

2015-11-20

One day, I woke up and walked to my apprenticeship (which was 5 seconds walk from my house) as normal. I arrived at the school and was told that I will be working with the new class today. I used to work with the kindergarten class(4 year olds) and my new class was 4th grade...

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Blog 3

2015-11-17

Blog 3 Pimampiro is beautiful and welcoming. It’s in the mountains in northern Ecuador, about two hours’ drive from the Colombian border and about an hour and a half by bus to Ibarra, the capital of the province of Imbabura. The people are very friendly; everyone greets each other on the street with a “Buenos...

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“If you like Colada Morada, getting caught in the rain…”

2015-11-14

Then Ecuador is the place for you especially the Amazon. It rains about nine feet of rain every year. The east coast where I am from receives about five feet of rain every year. So chances of getting caught in the rain are very likely here. Now you must be wondering what is Colada Morada....

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Nature Calls

2015-11-07

My index finger subconsciously found contact with my lock button on my phone – 13:04 it read. The sun stitched my pores, permeating weights of exhaustion through my limbs all the while exuding a light caramel from my skin. No one ever uses sunscreen here or do they bother to check the time. The day...

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¿Qué estás haciendo en Ecuador?

2015-11-06

Quick general update: It’s been a little over a month since my twelve hour bus ride down south from Quito, Ecuador. I currently live in a semi-urban community known as Paute within the province of Azuay along with a host family that consists of nephews, a younger brother and sister, a dad, a mom, a...

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Home – Written Oct. 25

2015-11-05

  Man. This program is honestly really taxing sometimes. When I left Quito and my first host family to come to Otavalo, I was way sad. I remember thinking that I wasn’t ready to leave my family, who I’d just begun to grow close to, and I wasn’t ready to leave a city that I...

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Better Late Than Never?

2015-11-04

I would like to start this blog post with an apology. I realised after speaking to a few people that in all the posts I have up on my blog so far, it seems I got so lost in trying to be poetic and deep that I forgot to say what exactly it was that...

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2.0

2015-10-29

​I've been thinking over my vision stand more and I've realized that it wasn't really tailored to me. I wrote things I thought I should want, things I though anyone would need to get out of a gap year. But in writing that vision stand, I never thought about me; I never thought about where...

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“I’m A Baby”

2015-10-27

Driving to Sayausi for the day, bus after bus, taxi after taxi, all I knew about the schedule was that we, Charlotte, Emery, Gabrielle, and I, were going somewhere to reforest something. This explanation basically sums up all things Ecuador, going somewhere unclear with little direction other than “vamos.” Sitting in the third and final...

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Me llamo

2015-10-24

I have struggled posting this blog because I find it difficult to accurately display everything that goes on in my life on a day to day basis. But as I adapt to my new life, this podcast accurately depicts some of my many thoughts and challenges. (Photo is of one of my weekend ballet classes...

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Two months down..Six to go

2015-10-23

Two Months down..Six to go 7:15 A.M. I rose from my warm bed to greet the cold and I slowly slipped on my very, handy dandy, flip flops, as I make my way downstairs for breakfast.   Breakfast Menu: Black coffee with sugar Rice An Egg or sausage 7:45 A.M.     I waddle my...

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