Day 10 | Culture and Indigenous Worldview

Today we attended the festival of Inti Raymi. It is an annual festival created to appreciate the sun and Mother Earth for their necessary resources that allow humans to live a sustainable life. In order to show respect to the indigenous people for their celebration of...

Day 9 | The Injustice of Poverty

After many days of waking up early, we were all treated to an earlier wake up call at 8:00. We had a typical amazing breakfast provided by La Primavera. Then we prepped everyone with a mental warm up before we left to work with Manitos Trabajadores. Manitos...

Day 8 | Fun Day!

After a long day of walking yesterday, a lot of us had some trouble getting up this morning. Once we had breakfast we were ready to go. Tutoring was difficult for my group but thankfully we were able to come to an understanding for what we wanted to accomplish by the...

Day 7 | Working and Living like a Local

Today we woke up at 6:45am to a cold morning as the sun rose and covered the land of Riobamba. Many of us woke up tired, but with the heart of Ecuador, we pushed through. As we stumbled upon the bus, we made sure to provide snacks to everyone. As they mouthed down the...

Day 6 | Free Day #1

  For today, we woke up around 6 am to get ready for tutoring day #3. At 6:30, we ate a breakfast that consisted of a grilled ham and cheese sandwich, bread, fresh juice and scrambled eggs. After teaching ended at 9:45, we headed back to our hostel to give an...