Macht euch auf etwas gefasst, dieser Eintrag ist etwas Laeng, aber ich kann mich leider nicht kurzfassen. Wenn schon, denn schon. Nicht wahr?
am After a week language course in Quito, I finally arrived on Saturday after a long but wonderful 5-hour bus ride to Puyo in the Pastaza region. On the way there I get the most beautiful landscapes to see. Waterfalls of different height, volcanoes, small villages with plenty of street life and a lot of rivers where you can see the people swim! At each stop, get a food vendor and want to get their baskets with a variety of delicacies at the man. Sugarcanes to Aussuzeln, different pastries, sweet or sour, some with honey, the other with leeks and cheese, or sweets of any kind would I like to try everything, but then I would already have a balloon, I've still got a whole year time! The ride also passes through Baños. The city, which is referred to as "the gateway to the Amazon" and therefore also marked quite touristy. Immediately get a handful of "gringos" in my bus a resume their journey in Ecuador.
arrived in Puyo and already I am a heavy rain greeted warmly, which soaked me in a very short time from top to bottom! Fortunately, I am picked up right from the nieces of my host mom, Paulina and Adriana, with her car. My luggage weighs damn much, so that the two must tackle together, so they can pack into the trunk. Was a little embarrassing, but they wanted no help from me! The eldest, Pauly is 24 years old, has studied biomedical or so in the manner in which Adriana is 20 years and has a 2-year-old girl named Ariana. My first impressions are blurred by the rain, I can see that is hardly anything. A Wonder that they even driving a car, can I only see outlines =), but probably have to get used to driving blind!
My host mother is Yolanda, with which I will do but only on Sunday, the acquaintance, as it is with the rest of the family to a ceremony in Macas. No problem, yes the sister lives next door with her husband, the two female driver and her granddaughter.
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| left: My host Mama Yoli and left her sister Nelly |
I will get a warm welcome, like to eat a lot and immediately showed my new home.
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| my new home. |
I almost fall out of my eyes, so I've not really expected. I have my own room on the first floor next to the home of Carina, Byron and their children Sebastian and Emilia, who are still traveling. Carina is also the daughter of Yolanda.
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| Emilia and Sebastian |
My bed is huge and has a pink, ornate bed cover, hanging from the windows of gold-yellow curtains that are held together by golden cords individually. A television and the Internet are always available to me. The other walls are fitted with cupboards and I have my own bathroom, which is the upper hammer. Green, a large shower, plastic flowers, toothpaste, soap and towels I have also even has a washing machine here! Simple everything.
a bit I am now, because I imagine all the time say that I do not really far right of the Ecuadorian Life will be here noticed. Let's see what we can do.
After a short rest I am in the city in a car made famous. It shows me where I can find my way, which road I must assume that I do not get lost and where are my two schools there. The night school José Joaquin Olmedo is equal to me in the neighborhood, and I have Mondays and Tuesdays from 18 bis 20 clock clock instruction. The other school called Ceslao Marín is located in Veracruz, a small neighboring town of Puyo. There I have to always go from Monday to Friday from 7.30 bis 12.30 Clock Clock by bus or taxi with a car, where I 17 lessons with students from 3 to about 13 years. Vera Cruz itself is a nice tiny town, known ice cream for body painting and delicious. Each house is decorated with small paintings and the "center" is embellished by a lovely Pärkchen. I like it here now, especially after I got to experience the hottest sunset of my life. The whole mountain range was orange, red, yellow and purple lights, which has now swept away all my worries to the family!
the evening I was with 15 to Birthday of a girl that is celebrated here as in Germany, the 18th, since then the girl to Woman. They told me that everything will be pink and behold, it was really all in this "beautiful" color. Balloon arches, table decorations and ceiling, balloons, cakes, drinks, everything was in pink. Strawberries with chocolate fountain ... a parade of loud pink girlies, 50 Schmusesongs, a wild poem, photo show ....! It has dragged on for ages, mainly because I was still somewhat shocked that Ecuador should be. The invited families dressed their children as all little princesses. I think I've landed here in the upper class, that what I've wanted so much so =)!
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| on a hacienda of a family friend, there is a Dique (= dammed river pools for swimming) |
is the next day better. We go to a park on a river and I get the first glimpse of the beautiful nature here. Lauter lianas, exotic flowers, butterflies, parrots chirping and a lot of tropical trees and hanging bridges =)!
If my family, not like so much, even though they are really nice, I'm blown away by the city, it's just perfect! And finally I get to know the Yoli Mom, can I namely call it that. She is very stout, almost all will here as well and the first thing to know, if I eat everything and eat it and thank God I do that too!
My first days as a teacher!
The first days were a bit chaotic. I had to even 2 hours waiting for the Lord, the pick me up to go to my school, where should I get my schedule. Once there, I will all be presented and I believe I am here today that interesting at school, I am staring at a real and joyfully received by all students and teachers. Here and there a few hugs and my blond hair is now very much in the hands of little ones. In addition, today also appointed the manager or the best students in the Ecuadorian flag and gets handed!
Ultimately, I'm starting until Thursday to work on, since I get here until my schedule! In short, I generally come with everything your way around, take some classes Although I finished and I have to scream like an idiot, that they would finally rest, but if you then again during Hausaufgabenkorrigieren stroked her hair, makes it all good again =)!
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| Niñas |
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| Niños |
students at the Día de la Raza "in school!
My other jobs here, the last days of the week were not so terribly exciting but not boring! I spent hours walking in the city, many streets to explore, food stalls made clear to me working on the new place and now I get lost and not know my now almost perfectly from here! With my family, I consider myself quite a lot, they're all really funny, especially her big sister, which is cool. Yesterday they gave me an Ecuadorian song sung, but how he, like that of an angle and I did not help it and can laugh out loud and then had to have all laughed =)!! With Mama Yoli and her nieces I go every Wednesday and Friday in the aerobic dance (Salsa, Bachata, Merengue, Ecuadorian folk dances ... ..), it is damn hard and I will only run down the sauce on a tack! Today I will still ask what else there so everything is here for sports, I have to do that is something else I will really fat, fatten me here when I was a pig that will soon come to the butcher !!!!!
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| rice with shrimp and mussels. This was a small portion for $ 3. which had just about almost three people can be satisfied. |
And the food is delicious and genuine, but the portions are not normal anymore, but would you compare it to a mountain, then it'd probably look like Mount Everest in miniature very strong!
OH yes, what I forgot, I've already fried ant queens eaten and they were surprisingly delicious. Very crispy!
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| Uquis ant queens |
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| Half the dish I've eaten =)! |
And one of my favorite activities Marktbummlerei, there's stuff is so horny and every time I buy new fruits and snacks that I do not know yet. In most cases, will I am not disappointed, only one indigenous drink that's I'd become almost sick, but I do not want to admit that it is not my taste. This was somehow a fermented Yukasäftchen, very disgusting! And the next thing I will try very thick grubs, up to now I still can not overcome this =)!
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| Platanos |
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| No coolers like at home! |
The weekends are always the best. The first time is Nicola and the other volunteers here in Puyo, and I went to Yanacocha. This is an animal breeding center for the endangered animals and also for wild animals that have lived in captivity and have been abused. There they are kept in large enclosures or outdoors. There also a few monkeys hopping around so, and if you're lucky, you could even pet a.
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| there all the time hopping around freely. |
We both are fascinated, especially because the animals here really comes extremely close. Some can even pet such as a "Tigrillo," which looks like a small leopard long!
The whole thing is in a beautiful setting, with colorful flowers, butterflies and water points, you feel is almost like the rain forest. There are a variety of monkeys, parrots, macaws, butterflies, rainforest chicken, all kinds of wild cats, wild pigs, turtles, caimans .... louder and other animals, whose name I unfortunately do not in German!
Then we drive to Fatima, where there is a good place on the river for bathing us in the cool and fresh water.
rain forest tour
Two different types of orchids
This weekend has been the coolest what I have experienced here so far! The man from the other night school English teacher has a country house at 1800 meters high above the rain forest, near the Rio Anzu! Up there it receives students ... teaching them about the environment and the rainforest. On Saturday at 6:00 in the morning we meet so Henry and the student Pablo at the terminal and go back on the bed of an old, rickety truck about 2 hours in the direction of "Selva"! The roads or dirt roads are getting more bumpy, dusty and poor to navigate. In the end we have to get off and go on foot because the estate can not be achieved otherwise. In my new rubber boots that are really worth gold here, we tromp through mud, over logs and huge stones. It's damn hard, especially since Henry draufhat a monkey teeth, or rather I mean to die fast!
Nature rips the only way past me, I see everything just blurred green because I focus so much on the ground have to do to not slip and fall down! Please do not equal in the first hours, Meli, I think to myself all the time, that would be a bit too embarrassing!
Done! Finally we arrived at our accommodation. She's beautiful. built out of pure Nautrsachen, no concrete or anything else, only bamboo and dried leaves, maybe a few Wellblächer, but that's it for now! We sleep in hammocks on the first floor, downstairs there is a large kitchen, great room with fireplace, an oblong wooden table, a bar ..., toilets and showers! And you have the coolest views of the mountains, rain forests and even the volcano Sangay.
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| Our accommodation |
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| views of the rain forest near our accommodation |
I like it here on the spot and it can certainly loszugehen not expect. After a quick breakfast, it then goes wrong with cane and hat!
Now we really are inside the green thicket.
We get told that there are also bears and tigers, tigers here, unimaginable for me, but yes there are those we have seen, unfortunately, no! I'm thankful for my boots, because we have to run every half hour through a muddy field, where we put it up almost to his knees in it firmly. The sounds are always so funny that I almost always make your pants need for sheer laughter and mostly you just go without help does not get out! It goes up steep hills and down again, over thick tree trunks over it, it will waded through streams and sometimes jumping from stone to stone care! We can play Tarzan and Jane sometimes, as there have been there so horny, long lianas, with which we are swinging around. Watch out for me great fun, despite the gallons of sweat.
You also have enormous that you slip do not know what frequently happens much laughter for me and causes me a little bit overwhelmed with adrenaline. Been dropped but I am not once, even if it sometimes quite close was =)! After an eternity we finally reached our destination, a beautiful, clear, cold river, the Rio Anzu. There we make a fire, swim in the water you can even drink, and finally we eat a lot of grilled cheese Kochbnanen!
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| swimming in the fresh river water |
The way back was faster, because we knew already to have to watch what we However, we had rain, but still sought. It pours as in Germany just not möglcih, we are down to the underpants get wet, but somehow it makes me out of nothing. On the contrary, I think it's fantastic. I could spend hours running around like that! Arriving at the house, it starts correctly storm and we must move our place to sleep in a tent, there are even above the wind, the hammocks have become britschnass. No problem, a bit harsh, but it can still get a good sleep inside, or we are dead tired after all the walking, eating and talking!
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| Our kitchen |
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| I mash the plantains |
The next day Meerschweintag! Henry offer us one of his "Animal house"!
"Who wants to kill it?", He asks us. Ha, who is funny, my friends so blatant I'm not for me on it, I love to have renounced it. The next step, I got it done yet. The aim was to remove the hair, so Meersau into the water and then rumrupfen already! Then remove all the intestines and thus, in turn, makes Henry, because he's just come, makes it even more beautiful season and down to the charcoal grill is nice crispy brown to it.
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| Cuy-guinea pig |
Everything is packed with potatoes and cheese sauce and off they go to the next tour. The only lasts not as long as before, since we now have to leave. It's a monkey biscuits, where meets in May, a 30-member family of monkeys to get there to feed on a grape fruit that grows only fact at the time. There we enjoy our guinea pig and bathe in the river one last time.
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| guinea pig with potatoes |
Thus, the time it was far from me again! Soon and very best wishes! Besitos!
Eure Melanie
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