We had a marathon travel day and ended up in miami at 1:30 in the morning, i may or may not have dropped my passport and a lady may or may not have picked it up and found me, because i still look like a 19 year kid.

We arrived in Quito after 3 days of travelling, flight cancellations, shenanigans, under the cover of darkness, but the view from our hostel in the morning made it all worth it

Our crew minus Vinicio from the top of the basilica in Quito.

That is my home this month, our dining hall.

We arrived to find the kitchen a mess, we spent hours upon hours making it spick and span.

I´m starting the suspenders trend, one of our participants even asked if we could make visions suspenders, its working....

This is our view from our homebase, volcano tungurauhua, which erupted in 2008 and the tourist town of banos had to be evacuated.

Our guapo group of men, vinicio, shawn, y nico suave

our whole group together at a finca up the mountain. it is incredible here how people farm in the mountains, mostly without machines, i have seen a couple tractors.

one of our projects is at the casa de ancianos, we are building a casa de pollos so the house can have fresh chicken eggs everyday.

our first visit to our tiny town in sucre we came upon a festival of corpus cristi, there were bulls running the streets.

check out this spider, cray cray, we also found a large tarantula in our kitchen, which we removed, i have never seen a spider that big in my life.

the misty mountain roads remind me of ireland. the principal of our school took us on a drive to a small village where one of atahualpas brother lived, it was very cool being so close to history.

He also told us that this old woman was a descendant of atahualpa, we asked how long she lived here, and sha said 4 years, so maybe our friend is just a skilled storyteller, which i´ve always been told, an irishman never let facts get in the way of a good story, maybe the same holds true for ecuadorians.

Inca artifacts gathered in a ´museum´ near this monument. We had to walk a quarter mile along a ditch to get to the persons house who had all of these artifacts, unlike a museum we were able to hold everything.

Quito is enormous, it goes on and on!!!

There are rainbows everyday. This was the most spectacular one yet, on our way to Sucre where we are building the kiosk.

Me and my kitchen, and as Ashley my coworker calls it, my Aguacate dress.

We made Quimbolitos, an Ecuadoran specialty, basically a sponge cake wrapped in a pumpkin leave and boiled.

My buddy Emily Jackeline, Lupita´s granddaughter.

The Quimbolitos!! Cooked.

A night on the town (we were the only ones in the bar) with Lupe my new best friend, the owner and Ashley. I finally feel like a tall person here, I tower over the locals, and Ashley. If only I had played basketball here!