TENAAAAA!!!

YO, hey!

No pictures this time. I tried to find some online to illustrate where our team is going this next block, but I was not satisfied with the pictures that I saw. Anyways, me and my pareja this block, James, are heading to the JUNGLE on the 23rd, I believe, and I am SUPER excited!!

This is what I know about Tena, the town in the jungle we are going to: the community is great, the kids are great, the kids will swim with us in the river on our lunch break, there are sometimes anacondas or deadly snakes in the water so if the kids run out of the water we should run out of the water, the kids like to throw spiders at gringos (this is where I am preparing myself. Spiders and I don't get along.), there are bugs the size of my face, there are tarantulas. I am hosting a team with my pareja James who is 28 years old, and the next youngest person on the team is the same age as my 22 year old brother. I am really excited about having an older team. And, I am SUPER excited about being able to go to Tena in the jungle.

Other than what is ahead of me, as in tomorrow night because the next team comes in tomorrow night (CRAZINESS!). I just got back from watching Beverly Hills Chihuahua with some of my friends, and all I can really remember is the first half of the movie and then waking up when it was over. Leading up to the movie that we watched to night I was told by Adam DeVries that the movie had to be good because one of the lines was, "We aren't in Mexican't........ we're in MexiCAN." Possibly one of the most powerful movie lines on the face of this earth.

And, I was about to climb Pichincha, a freaking SWEET mountain in Quito, but there were a number of things that went wrong. Adam, Matt Smith Sr., and I were ready to go at 5am... we were picked up... we made it up most of the mountain to the place where we were going to start hiking, except that the car started to not run so well towards the top... thus, we had the option of hiking an hour and a half to 2 and a half hours to get to the place where we wanted to start... and then we would have 7ish more hours. I didn't think I would be able to keep up with them since we were in such a hurry... umm, and I would have died regardless of any time restraint... umm, to make a long story a whole heck of a lot shorter... Adam and I were going to hike a different section of the mountain, and after dodging cars that were 2 seconds away from killing us and finding restrooms in really cool schools we decided to hang out with Parish and Sara DeVries, Adam's wife and baby, for the day, which was GREAT!

And I just sneezed three times. I sneeze all the time. At least 3 times.

So, my time off has been really really great... and it is about to end tomorrow... umm, and last most important thing: Caroline, one of my friends and house mates, and I have been cooking the BEST meals ever, and I am in shock that we have been able to do so.

That's it.

good night!