Recent posts from: RB3A Riobamba 6-15


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...

Day 5 | Education Day


Today we woke up at 6am to get ready for a very busy day. We at breakfast at 6:30am (bomb hot chocolate!) As soon as breakfast was over we headed onto the buses to teach English to for the second time at Adolfo Kilping. After teaching we headed to Carlos Garbay...

Day 4 | Global Business


  Today was our first day teaching kids English at Adolfo Kolping. We prepared our lessons the night before and were nervous about teaching kids around our age. To start off the day, we got up at 6:30am and got ready for an amazing breakfast of egg infused toast...

Day 3 | History of Ecuador


Hi family and friends- Our apologies for the delay in blogging, we were having a few technical difficulties. But what a day! Today, our focus was on learning about the history and culture of Ecuador. Our leaders of the day, Sydney and Guadalupe, woke us up at 7:30 in...