Hello, How are you all? I've had a good week. I've been able to some one-to-one therapy this week with a few children from the school. Did some playing with water with Jonas. Officially it was to improve his co-ordination but in reality it was really fun!
A slight change in routine this week when on Tuesday I found myself spending the afternoon giving a 3 hour English class to a teenager and then a French introduction class to a local friend. Tuesday was certainly multilingual!
I also got to go back to Laura Flores this week and do some women's work. I participated in a Bible study. Most of the women had obviously never used a Bible before and I spent quite a bit of time finding the right pages for them and explaining how to find a verse. Quite a new experience for me! A fair few of the ladies can't read and write very well at all and asked me for help!!! Me with my basic Spanish?! It was such a pleasure though to be able to help, encourage them and struggle along with them. Afterwards I did a few massage treatments to some of the women. I really hope I can carry on this work!
Amy and I went out for the day today. We both wanted to get out of Santo for a few hours and fancied a hike. We picked out a national park in Puerto Quito. We got the bus to P Quito easily enough and spent the trip up there day dreaming about long walks in lush forests. We were met by a small but friendly town who happily redirected us to Puerto Rico where they had a park and many waterfalls. A lovely man on the bus allowed me to sit on his bucket (no seats left) and directed us to our stop. Puerto Rico is a small town, in fact it's one street! We got a camion ride up to the park. I say camion but..it was a pick up trailer thing attached to a motorbike. One pretty but long trip in a bike pick up truck we arrived and paid our entrance fee. Gearing ourselves up for a brisk ramble we were met by a rather bossy man who sent us off to a hut to strip off and change!!!
We politely protested that we didn't want to change but he insisted. We couldn't see the waterfall unless we wore a swimming costume and a life jacket!!!!!!!!! Amy decided we must taking a boat trip to the park and I reckoned we must walk near the waterfall and this was our protection. Can you guess who was right? ;) 5 minutes later we edged out of the hut looking like right idiots in swimming costumes, life jackets and trainers.
The man pointed to a stone, very steep, slippy and dangerous stairway. We got to the bottom and there was the waterfall. No nature walk, no boat just a waterfall. We swam in the water (in our life jackets) then got out again and that was it. There is apparently nothing else to do in Puerto Rico in spite of their 10ft sign calling themselves Ecuadors' paradise. I don't know why we were surprised-how long will it take before we learn that nothing in Ecuador EVER goes according to plan? We still had a good day though.
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