The Last Week in Peguche

It has come to the last week in Peguche. We leave here on the 9th and head back to Quito for some program debreifing and we all leave Quito on the 13th, some to go home but Sheena, Allan, Lauren, Humza, Raphael and I are heading off on an adventure. We are going to Santa Cruz, Bolivia for just after Christmas. We are going to stay there until just after New Years. Then we are heading back through Bolivia, to Peru. (the plan is to hike into Machu Pichu, to spend about a week on the beach in Peru just hanging out and hopefully surfing and then I catch a plane from Lima to Buenos Aires. I´ll be there for about 10 days and then I´ll head to Quito and then home. It is pretty exciting although I´m going to really miss Candice and Colin who aren´t going to come with us.
Now a little more about here. Work at the school has been good. I am ajusting to Ecuadorian child minding standards which are very different from Canadian ones. We have had some interesting food experiences including little beetles fried with salt and lemon (they just tasted like salt and lemon and were very crunchy) and on Saturday we went to a housewarming party and had sheeps blood soup. It was good except for the blood part. The party was interesting though. It is traditional at housewarming parties to bring some sort of alcohol and eggs. There was a lot of dancing and a lot of drunk people. We aren´t allowed to drink on the program and it was probably a good thing. People just go around with a bottle of beer/wine/hard alcohol/moonshine and pour shots. I was approached with alcohol approximately every 2 minutes. If I had accepted I wouldn´t have been able to walk home.
Otherwise things are going very well although I´m tired. I´m sure that once we get going on this big adventure I´ll get my energy back. I love you all and I´m going to try to put some pictures up. It is pretty slow though.
Love,
Anna