New Beginnings, Sad Endings

Just said goodbye to my second team! I am not down with this whole getting to know a group really well and then having to say goodbye thing. The group from Texas was awesome and really touched my heart. In construction we finished 6 columns of concrete and a flight of stairs just with a group of 6 of them (4 girls and 2 guys). The cool thing about this group was because it was smaller it gave the community a chance to get involved and be a part of this project. A couple of guys showed up every day to help-I am talking mixing concrete help, not passing out water bottles help. They are just volunteers and members of the church we are building the daycare for, it is really inspiring to me how much they are willing and sweat for this church.

Oh and did I mention that they served guinea pig at lunch for the last day. no joke. I was going to be brave and try it, but it definitely came out with a face and I had to say no gracias. A guinea pig costs 30 bucks here, crazy right?

Today was my free day so i did some sightseeing. This really is a beautiful city. It is basically a bowl surrounded by mountains and volcanoes. I went to some churches, la basillica & la compañia. La basillica is basically straight out of a harry potter movie-i am in love. And I saw my first ecuadorian traffic accident (no worries I was not in it). A taxi opened its door and a motorbike hit the door-straight out of a Geico commercial.

Random fact: Have you ever wondered where all those sacagawea coins went too?

They are in Ecuador. Seriously every time I buy anything I get sacagawea coins back.