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The community centre

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 [...]

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I suspect that when your architect pulls you all aside to give you a hug, you can be fairly certain he´s happy with what you´re doing.  And since every single one of us today got a hug – we know that we´re basically Bupa legends! Today started with brilliant views of Cotopaxi as we drew water from the well and lugged bucket loads of it up the hill for the cementing to begin.  The brilliant views were a bonus as [...]

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