Both of these pictures are from a 4 day rotary trip in Manabí which is the province I live in. Going to all the different places wasn't a big deal because I've already been to all of them but it was still fun to see all the exchange students because this trip was with every rotary student in Ecuador over 120. the first photo is of most of kids from the U.S. during the independance of portoviejo perade. The second photo is of the town we stayed in for almost the whole time called Crucita we spent a day and a half just laying on the beach and almost everyone got burn I did a little but not too bad. We also went to Montacristi where Panama hats are made. Panama hats are really Ecuarorian hats but when the U.S. was helping build the Panama Canal the Ecuadorians went to Panama to sell their hats and when the builders went home they brought the "Panama hats" with them and the name just stuck.

My Rotary Club brought me and the three other exchange students in the club to this place in some small unknown town to give the people who are too poor to afford a doctor shots. And while we were there we also gave away basket and soccer balls to the kids. And cooking utensils like pots, plates, and glasses to the adults. I don't have much to say about this picture because the rotarian who brought me there was around three hours later than everyone else. so I was only there for about an hour insted of 4 like everyone else.

I know I haven't updated my blog in a long time but that is because my computer would just stop working every time I tried to log onto my account. And I am now so that's something right? Every once in a while my family and I will go to the beach but this time we went to the country. The picture is of me at a resturant on the side of the road. You can see it in the back round across the river this one like most of the road side resturants is family owned and run. The cooks cook all the food over wood burning stoves. The stoves aren't like the cast iron stoves thought they are brick walls like three feet or so high with a metal grill that the cooks put the pots and pans on with a fire burning under. the food is always amazing and the counrty is beautiful even if everything it dry and dead right now its still cool.