La Hesperia

I´ve recently been informed that people don´t like a lot of text in their blogs that they read but rather, less text, more pictures! Sadly, the computer I´m on at the internet cafe in Otavalo is lacking in a scandisk drive so there still aren´t pictures just another apology for how incredibly long it´s been since my last post...yikes!

ok... let´s see... I´ll do a couple of smaller updates k?

So firstly, the reserve: absolute heaven set in the cloud forest between Santo Domingo and Quito, west of the Andes in Ecuador. My typical day includes getting up at 5:30am and heading to the barn to milk the cows, then feeding the baby cows and cleaning up the cow shit in the pens, all before breakfast. Continuing from my last post which came after Shane and I returned from the crater at Pululahua, more volunteers showed up followed by a group of 15 canadians (all from Orangeville area and the gta) to spend a week building the school that is going up at the reserve. And what a blast! They were some pretty fun people and some of them even seemed quite familiar, which is a little funny since we´re in Ecuador.
Anyway, prior to the Canadians showing up, Shane went into Quito to finally have a date with the volunteer coordinator of ours for the galapagos and it seems that they are quite smitten... staying at the reserve for the weekend was really nice for me too since I got to wander about (no horseback riding though), do some hikes, and get to know my other volunteer peeps better. It was actually really fun and I´m quite sad that I´ve left the reserve now.

Anyhoo, the following weekend is our rescheduled trip to Mindo which, again, was altered to accomodate another date for Shane, but this time I just decided to go myself on Friday when we were supposed to go originally... well it turned out to not quite be ¨myself¨...