more from the jungle trip!!

 I need to fill ya in on the rest of the jungle crazyyy adventures..It would take forever and a day to write all about so here are some stories from pictures!!

the owl we named Quincy. Came abnormally close to us!!!!

round two of me holding a very large serpent...

                                                       monkey business....one of these guys stole our friends sunglasses! they have warnings all around about the monkey thieves! But he gave it back luckily!

                                                             cocoa ...makes chocolate!:) plant

                                                 swam across a good strong current to get here after our extremely sweaty hike. we found a sweet jungle rope swing into the water!!

                                                    this was another day...we hiked up to this jaw dropping waterfall.... you can't see all of it here..

                                               playing an intense round of signs....lasted forever ..we got very into it. the local worker didn't understand .haha

face paint day! with the local root of a plant

                                           I was one of the privileged few to use the root and got to paint this man's face

                                       this is kerry- KKKrazy blue eyes! thought this pic was intense! sorry guys she's taken

                                                             our crew! ready for adventure! after the water fall we got into tubes and rafted down the river!:)

                            disney song marathon. We sang out little lungs our down the amazon river!

we went to a little "zoo" animal preserve on our hike

this little guy kept following us ::)

crazy beautiful

Now we are back in Cuenca our home for the next 3 and half months! Can't believe I've already been here for 3 and a half weeks! Time has been flyin! Especially now that my semester crew is here. WE all get along really really great and can't believe how different we all are but how well we all work together. Everyone has different little quirks and we definitely have character! They all met their host families sunday night and than had their first night here. Some of the girls were a little overwhelmed because they couldnt really communicate with their families and felt very alone. So Monday our coordinator Lisa was gone so I took our group on a little trip to a local mercado, the one Soledad showed me before. It was good to keep the group moving...I know how it can get when its slow. My family tends to watch a lot of tv and when you don't have a working cell phone yet you just have to find things to do. My first two weeks I watched a lot of friends, painted, drew and made my sister go on a walk with the dog around the park. Its dangerous around sometimes so doing things with other people is a good idea.

Love love love my new group. So happy that they are here! I loved the other group that I went on the hiking trip with but they are leaving tomorrow. Now my crew is here to stay and we all have different classes and weekend excursions together.:) This weekend we are going to some Inca- ruins.

Today was the first real day of semester classes! I had spanish with 4 others (not by myself this time!) and latin american art with 3 others. I think the art history class will be a lot of work but I am really interested in it, so hopefully it will be enjoyable. I really really really enjoyed the museum of Guayasamin that our group got to visit in Quito. If you are interested and have a chance look up some of his stuff! He's awesome.

Went home for lunch had a little siesta than headed back up to CEDEI and met some girls that live by me Flo and Jenny to make our walk back. We took a group picture and they went to get phones. Later I joined the group from Maryland one last time at their goodbye send off dinner. They leave tomorrow for Maryland. Crazzzy because of the guys knows Chris Hoover- my hometown friend that I grew up with till I was like 6. Small world. Anywhoo the dinner was good and I got free food! sweet deal ..I kinda crashed their goodbye meal but I wanted to say goodbye to the group! Most all of their group got sick and was in and out of the hospital this last week...no bueno. Hopefully that doesn't happen to our group!

Tomorrow I have my second day of class and our whole crew is meeting up for lunch manana! I'm excited but my mami will just have to miss meee!:)

love love love love.

Your name is ointment poured forth.

-Song of songs 1:3

The love of God has been poured out in our hearts by the Holy Spirit who was given to us.

Romans 5:5

Christ also has loved us and given Himself for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet-smelling aroma.

Ephesians 5:2

Therefore, to you who believe, He is precious.

1 Peter 2:7