This is my last day in Ecuador and my first blog… so I´m going to try to make it short and sweet much like this trip has been.
After a 26 hour flight from Sydney, I couldn´t string to gether a sentence and yet the Week 5 team who greeted us were warm, accepting and friendly despite my barely audible grunts and blank stares- which was honestly all I could manage.
Day two was spent with team 6- Alison from Australia, Louise [...]
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Well, our last day in Miraflores was emotional. It felt rather like truanting to go onsite this morning and not pick up tools or a wheelbarrow while the construction team continued in their same inimitable style.
Today we spent time with the children in their classrooms playing the likes of head shoulders knees and toes and practicing their English. Which in fairness is better than my Spanish so I think I came away with more learning than they did. They were very [...]
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