Thursday, December 28, 2006

Ho ho ho, and a merry crimble to all.

Sarah´s been a star and stuck all her photos up on flickr so if you want to take a look at what I´ve been doing for the past 10 weeks then click here. The sets that are from the expedition are:

Jungle
On the Napo
Sumak Allpa
Agua Santa Market
Yachana Colegio
Life in Camp
Quito

Enjoy trying to find my ugly mug amongst them. Here´s a taster:



I´m definitely in the Quito one being a dick as usual (and why do I still have my back pack on?). I´ve not checked the rest yet though so I might appear in a few.

Friday, December 22, 2006

Tip top how do.

Everyone all right? Good good. Just a quick post to let everyone know I´m still alive and well, well, not that well today but the Berocca´s fast sorting that out. So I´m out of the selva now (jungle for the non Spanish speaking population) and on the beach. Once the expedition ended 8 of us decided to leg it to the beach together. Bit of a mission to be honest. Spent about 30 hours on various buses and didn´t sleep for two days but we got here in the end. So the 8 of us are just going to chill here in Canoa for Crimble.

It´s a sleepy little surf town with no bank, roads made of sand and an abundance of hammocks. Perfecto. Still not been for a surf yet, mainly because I´m lazy but no doubt I´ll get in the water before long.

The kind folk at GVI also offered me the internship which I´ve taken up. That means another jungle expedition. Another 10 weeks. That puts me finishing up at the end of March. Then there´s some talk of Machu Pichu in April but that´s not a definite. The internship should give me good experience to maybe become a paid staff member too so I´ll need to see how I feel about that but it´s definitely an option. I´m sorry I won´t be home for Christmas... but.... errr... I´m on the beach and it´s minus 1 in England. Haha, sorry that was cruel. Seriously though, miss you all loads. Take care and have a class Christmas.