Last weeks

09.01.10 Saturday
After only some hours in Quito we left in the evening to take a bus to Rio Bamba. In the hotel there we had a little party with the guys we had not seen in a while.
10.01.10 Sunday
we had to get up at 6 to get the bus to Alausi, where we had some braekfast. Here we where to take a train tour, which is really famous. Before you where able to sit at the top of the wagons and enjoy the incredible view and take one of the last traintracks exicsting in Ecuador, but now it is only touristic and the steam engine is gone. ;( So we felt kind of tricked. At the same day I wanted to get to my house in the village near Cotacachi which was impossible, so I slept in an Hostel in Ibarra. This evening was kind of exciting, with all the buses which did not stop where I wanted them to, so I was really happy to get out of the bus in a real bed. From the 29.12 until the 10.01. I spend 56 hours in busses, over two of 12 days!
11.01.10 Monday
I took a bus to Cotcachi in the morning and arrived at my hostfamilies place. i did not do a lot this day... Just was happy to be in a "home" again...
12.01.10 Thuesday
At 10 am we drove to an soccer game (as always in the back of a truck, which I enjoy every time, it is freedom pure.) Unfortunaly there was no game since the other team did not show up, easy outcome. :)
13.01.10 Wedesday
We tried again with the soccer game and this time we played 3-3. In the afternoon I went to Cotacachi to buy some stuff. Since it is the town of leather. I bought really nice leather boots. :)
14.01.10 Thursday
Yes I did work too in these weeks. Today I worked all day, first in the garden with my youngest hostbrother and then in the new house of my other hostbrother, we did some painting.
15.01.10 Friday
The last things in the new house where finished and in the evening the little family moved the bed over to the new house and they slept there the first night. I made them some bread with salt on top, for good luck in the new home. (German tradition)
16.01.10 Saturday
In the morning we left for Otavalo to go to a meeting and I payed for my time in the Calera. At 3 pm we drove to another soccergame which we won 1-0.
17.01.10 Sunday
What a day! Today was the semifinal and the final for the cup which all the soccergames belonged to. The semifinal won the team from the Calera 4-0. And the final was reallt exciting! It was 1-0 against us all the time, but finally there was the goal which made is eacual 1-1. Then there was a 11-meter-shooting (whatever that is in english) which we won, so we where champions!!! There was a big party all night, the price was to big oxes, which the boys from the team will sell for a lot of money.
18.01.10 Monday
This day was kind of crazy, the whole town had an hangover or was still drinking. I did some work, for example I got the cows from the pasturage, for the first time ALL alone. Luckily they where nice. ;)
About the 19.01.10 is not much to say, only that I culled beans for the first time.
20.01.10 Wednesday
In the morning my hostbrother and me cleaned the cows stall. We got 17 barrowes of bullshit to the fields... In the evening we moved more stuff to the new house with a little truck.
21.01.10 Thursday
We worked all day at a lot. The comunity is building a restaurant for tourist where one can eat traditional food.
22.01.10 Friday
Agian we worked at the lot but only until midday. In the evening did not happen much only that I needed to pack my stuff and was kind of sad that I needed to leave the village soon.
23.01.10 Saturday
The whole morning we made guinea pig for some tourists from USA. It was really interresting to see the process of this traditional food. My buisness was to get enough plates and seats for 18 people. Nobody has so much stuff in their house in the Calera. At around 1 pm I left the Calera in a bus to Quito. My thoughts where kind of heavy since my time here already was over...
In Quito I had a warm welcome from my family here. I only chilled all evening and wathed a movie after a real long time without any medias...
24.01.10 Sunday
I spend all day in the internet cafe. In the evening I met my friends here in Quito, or those who are left (only 2). Almost all have gone back to Germany! ;( We played cards, ate pasta and chatted...
25.01.10 Monday
Today was my first day of work in the kindergarden. I stood up at 6 am to take the bus at 7. I work with the kids from 4 to 5 years. It was nice but hard to. I can not calm the fights properly because the spanish of a 4 year old who is crying is hard to understand.... I look foreward to get to know the kids better, even if I can say already who are the "bad" ones in the group...;)
Now I will go to the cinema withmy folks and see "Sherlock Holmes".

New Year

29.12.09 Tuesday
The day was pretty boring: pakking and stuff...
In the evening we took the bus to Guayaquil at 23.15.
30.12.09 Wednesday
At 8 in the moring we arrived in Guayaquil. We had a lot of time until the bus to Montanita went so we had breakfast. After another 3 hours in a bus we arrived in Manglaralto, where the hostal was. Of course we went to the beach at once. In the evening we went to Montanita to party.
31.12.09 Thursday
In the day we where shopping in the crazy shops of Montanita. The new years eve we soent at the beach in Montanita. A big party in the whole town. A litte before 12 o¨clock the surfers ran around a big fire ans afterwards they went in the water. Crazy people! I did not go home until the morning, at 7 am I was walking home along the beach. It was beautiful.
01.01.10 Friday
After this much party we did only chill out at the beach all day. Only to return to Montania in the evening for more party. The second og januar was exacly the same: Beach and party.
03.01.10 Sunday
We had a little more time at the beach and around 3 pm we took the bus back to Guayaquil. It was a little uncompfty because we had no seats and after all this party and little sleep everybodu was very tired. At around 6 pm we were finally there, but our bus to Quito did not leave until 11pm. So we ate a lot and played cards.
04.01.10 Monday
When we came to Quito in the morning everybody only wanted to go home and sleep. We slept some hours and attended some stuff: like washing clothes. In the evening Jens and me took the bus AGAIN. This time to Cuyabeno, the jungel!!! It took eon and we arrived at around 10 am at the 5th.
We drove to our logde with a little boat, had bearkfast and went right away for a walk in the jungel. It was just amazing. For exampel we saw monkeys and toads. In the evening we took a trip at the river, it was kind of scaring at first, at night in the jungel but I gor used to it.
06.01.10 Wednesday
We paddeled the river in the morning. Later we had another walk in the jungel. We saw ants that carried leaves on thier backs and a tucan. In the evening we had a nightwalk. There we saw a lot og stuff, mainly crazy big insects and little frogs.
07.01.10 Thursday
In the morning we tried to fish piranias, but had no lick. The afternoon was chilled, we relaxed and in the evening we went to try to see kaimans and fish again but with little luck.
08.01.10 Friday
Early we left to go to the black lagoon. It was almost 3 hours by boat. In the black lagoon we took a bath and saw a little kaiman and the backs of pink dolphins, that was amazing. After that we took the boat to an lokal tribe the: siona. There we made yuca bread and smoked a nature sigarette with the chef of the village, the papa who was 98. Then we took the boat back and at 7 pm our bus to Quito left.