jungla!!

Tomorrow Lisa (one of the directors of the program) and I are headed on a flight to Quito, the biggest city in Ecuador. We are spending the day in Quito just hangin out looking around and visiting whatever we want untill the rest of the semester group arrives at the airport tomorrow night around 10. I have to start taking my malaria pills because there will be lots of mosquitos in the jungle! I hate taking it the medicine before gave me the night chills and made me feel queasy at night. I'm gonna try taking it earlier in the day and not at night this time.

Yesterday was incredible!!! The hike through the hills side, the trees, the marshland and alongside the lakes was unreal. The high altitude definitely affected me later though. I didn't have a problem with it the entire day until we got back. I think I kinda got sunburn and the high altitude gave me a really bad headache. My throat was hurting and my body was really achy. I was going to meet up with the Maryland crew later last night but didn't even have the energy to go fill up my water bottle. I passed out and still felt horrible this morning. I called my friend and cancelled our almuerso (lunch)for today. She was going to teach me how to make her favorite meal- ceviche. But we rescheduled for when I return from the week in the jungle!!
After we meet the semester crew of 19 we will cruise around Quito than head to the jungle!! Talk about a good get-to-know you, break the ice time; a week in the muddy, humid, insect infested jungle! We will be around each other, dirty sweaty 24/7.
Our group made a facebook page and has been commenting back and forth since we found out the people in our group. I put up a post for them to bring more starbucks via's!! All they have here is instant coffee, which is just tolerable. They drink a lot of coffee and I had my family try the starbucks via's and they LOVEd them! I wanna try and see if coffee makers are cheep here..they just don't know what they're missing.. (I'm just speaking for my family, I'm sure other families may have them)

So I stayed in bed with my achy body untill about 12:30 today when i finally started to feel better and  got up. My head stopped hurting and my energy was back!:) Please pray for the incoming team and our travels. I pray that our team in cohesive and we all get along and respect eachother. I can't wait!! Jungle here we come!