Thanks for the Comments and Keep on Reading!

Just wanted to send a message saying thank you all for keeping up with me through my blog! It really means a lot. I was so unsure of blogging, but it has definitely served the purpose of keeping my loved ones informed a receive love and support in return! Que bueno! So just wanted to say keep reading, keep those comments coming (so I know you're out there!) and I will keep writing!!

I'm happy that I went to work writing and posting enough pictures to get me through the month. I posted everything pretty much my first week here and had enough to take me though the second to last week in September. Perfect, just enough time to get over my two week slump of the hohums after "the incident" (yes that's what we're calling it..)lol. I was so bummed and just inconvenienced and had a lot of ick thoughts and reeaally didn't want to post all that ickyness. I think I'm on the upward swing of things...well hopefully I really will be by the time this posts. Hopefully my two weeks with no cell phone will be no more and I will feel safe and not so creeped out. 

My time with the Mujeres has been really great. They have just become so protective of me and it feels more like a family now. We are still new to each other though. I'm more like an in-law that married into the family, but we have that sister- girl- I-got-your-back thing going on that goes beyond any language barrier and I really appreciate that. 

Que mas?

Pictures. Yikes. I dont know when I'm goin to bust out pictures in this city. Maybe the other volunteers will, and when I start traveling to other sites I may take pics then...but right now you are going to be getting photos off the internet I think. Why didn't anyone tell me that blogs are so boring without pictures? And why didn't anyone tell me that you don't need a ton...just one or two will do sometimes?

Oh I know, it's just my whimsical and witty writing is so entertaining you don't even need pictures. Is that it? Oh well mil gracias to you all. 

I wonder if the next coming months I will have bastante material to write. I think at the minimum every month I can do at least 4 posts for every week. We shall see. For October I am going to be outlining the projects we are working on and the plans we have to mejorar them. So there will be plenty of posts and pics (taken from the computer in the Mujeres oficina) for Oct. Maybe even take it all the way into November...we shall see...you gotta read to find out.

Thanks for the love I'm reflecting it right back at cha!!

Paz y Amor!!! (just trying to add photos!)

In Case You Missed It...

I have an new mailling address and for some people it´s hard to see on the side of my blog page apparently.

So here it is!
Jennifer Covington
PCV Cuerpo de Paz
Casilla 09-11-11805
Guayaquil, Guayas, Ecuador


Start sending me your packages of love! I had a wish list, but it was stolen...so I am going to be working on a new one....or maybe by the time this posts I will already have one...

I have a post office box so anything that is sent is secure and easy for me to get to.
Let me know if you have any questions about this...

Lot´s of Love!!

The Things We Do... Finale Journey Through Pics...

Things we Do....Just to Name A Few (We = PCVs)

Hike in Bamboo Forests


Non-Stop Charlas at the Crib



Make friends for life...(just an example don't be mad everyone)


Work with the Youth of today for a Better Tomorrow (they have all the answers...)

Join the Winners Circle


Sleep 5 To Bed...in rooms with no water, toilet, sink, windows...etc...


Play Ball!!!


Get Judged...


Smile through the Discomfort...(well most of us...)


Find Paradise Where ever We Go



Integrate...then become part of a Family


Learn that We Never Know What Tomorrow Will Bring....



Laugh at it All...


Good Luck to Omnibus 102! The Skys The Limit!



Stay tuned for a Journey Through Pictures the Guayaquil Edition....(don´t hold your breath I have two years to complete that one...)

The Land

I'm not big on taking the landscape pics...which is truly a shame, because the Sierra at every angle looks like a piece of heaven.... Pictures can't capture the beauty but here are some attempts....

Oh and just some other random shots of the land...
Emmalee in the cirlce where the Lenny´s would meet from time to time... And this is just what we would see while we were in training class in Ayora. Definitely different than working in my cube at Fox.

Oh well would you look at that...

This actually concludes our journey through pictures...
I thought I was going to have one more called...The Things We Do....

But you've seen that already...right? The Amigos section turned into group shots of randomness soooo... the journey ends here…for real cause I don´t even KNOW where my camera is at this point and if you think I´m going to bust it out in Gquil anytime soon you´re nuts! OKAY fine maybe one more post but that's it! Hope there aren't too many repeaters...Next up…The Things We Do…

Little Chocolate Monkey

I was going to have a fun witty little top 10 ten list...you know you're learning Spanish when....

but after a brutally hard couple of days (writing this a few days in...) here in Guayaquil the only thing I know is that I am NOT learning Spanish at the rapid speed I need to....or maybe I am, but it's not fast enough. I not only need to know my stuff...I need to know it muy rapido (super fast) and without the letter "s" since people on the coast talk way fast and drop the "s" at the end of every word.... They call that talking like a monkey or como un mono...

This reminds me of a story that happened during my days in Cayambe...

I found out that fun tidbit of information (about the the letter s and the fast talking) when my fam in Cayambe said when I come back from the coast I'll be a mona (female monkey) I was like UM WHAT!? I explained to them that calling a person of  African descent a monkey is really grounds for a drag down fight. But after a lot of back and forth they assured me that it simply they way the dialect in the Coastal area is referred to. They made fun of how they themselves talked too...so I felt un poco better.

Also, add to the fact that mi madre started calling mi Chocolatita which again is love...I refer to myself as chocolate too...but during the conversation we got into some Chocolatita Mona....Now you can call me chocolate cause after all I am :) and if mono is how they talk on the coast then fine...but I'm not going to be able to hang with being called little chocolate monkey...

That was quickly taken off the table and everything is everything once again between me and Mama Ana....whew...

AMIGOS

Amigos...

Talking about the Lenny's and Amistad just wanted to shout out all the new friends I've made that and I have bastante photos of folks and since this is the journey through pics, here are some faces I had the pleasure of seeing everyday...but alas now...no mas :( Thanks for the good times friends!!

Oh the Communities!

Puruantag -

Pesillo-

Ayora -

Cayambe A- The Lenny's of course

Cayambe B-

Cangahua-

Paquiestancia-

Cariacu-

Olmedo -

La Chimba Chicas...

Mas Amigos

Just a journey through friends...(this is not an exhaustive list…just some photos I had..sorry they are all scattered this post was impossible!) there will be more made now that I am in Guayaquil.... may the good times continue to roll!!!

This is my girl Tiffany, however everyone one thinks she´s me...(since we all look alike after all) she got her shirt made with my name. CLOWING!!