Look what Anna did!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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.

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.

Where to begin?

First up this keyboard´s toss so excuse the lack of proper punctuation. How the hell is everyone? It´s been a while. This jungle lark is absolutely fantastic. I´m loving every minute of it. The group´s really sound and the work is hard when it isn´t raining. Thereçs so much I have to tell you but it´s not really possible to condense it down. I´ve learnt loads and can´t wait to get back. Içll write properly tomorrow when I´m not so knackered. As we are limited to three beers a week whilst on camp we had a bit of a blow out last night on the first night of the midphase break. I got in at about 4.30 this morning and then got up at 7 to go white water rafting today. The rafting was immense. class 3 and 4 rapids for 40 km. We got back about 30 minutes ago and now I really need to find a fillet steak... no meat in any camp meals as we have no electricity to store it... have one or two larger beers and then sleep like the dead. Içm covered in mozzy bites, tick bites god knows what bites. Packing up for midphase break I found a wandering spider in my rucksack that had laid it´s egg sack under a shirt collar. Lucky not to get bitten really.

I´ve also applied for the internship to do another phase after this one. I should find out about that quite soon so Içll keep you all posted.

Mmmmmmmmm, meat.

Okay, not got much time so I{ll be quick. In Tena now, a little jungle town and about to set off. The address to send me any letters / red cross parcels is

Global Vision International
Casilla Postal 17-07-8832
Quito Ecuador

Cheers!