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After 8 hours on the night bus… a wacky experience for a couple reasons… we have arrived in our new home on the coast. Bienvenidos a Canoa! There are about 4-6k local residents here and the resto are tourists (like us). However it is off season right now and the sun is rarely out:( despite […]

https://youtu.be/7SL5HlD9cao Inspired by street art of the city and flora/ fauna of the selva. Felt so meaningful to leave this at the Secret Garden. Will seriously miss this magical place and beautiful family of people. Thank you for the INCREDIBLE life experiences and all that I learned here. It will not be forgotten<3<3 Besos y […]

Carmen and I are gathering inspiration for our mural. I’ll post the final outcome once we uh finish it uh we are running out of timeeee

Spent the day with Alisson taking two fascinating tours (in Spanish) of the Museo de Guayasamín and accompanying Capillo del Hombre (the artist’s house). Mind blowing and emotional work from local Quiteñan artist depicting the struggles of humanity all over South America and other parts of the world (Middle East, Asia, and Africa too). Oswaldo […]

Went to Mindo w/ my love (C Park). We stayed in a beautiful jungle hostel for the night and saw butterflies and ate chocolate! Everyone was so cute and really prioritizes la naturaleza (organic quinoa drinks and hummingbird murals everywhere). More videos and photos to come from our lovely lil getaway adventure (really lil actually […]

Uni game was FUN because cheap popcorn YAAAAA

Found a communal living area for lgbtquia+ hermanex (ex= gender nonconformative suffix in Spanish)! Such lovely people and art and inspiration. Live dj’s, graffiti, drag queens, and a woman who makes batik out of her own menstrual blood. Same sex couples are still not allowed to adopt children in Ecuador. In addition, abortion issues, contraceptives, […]

Today Dani, Carmen, and I hiked el volcán Pinchincha. You need to take a cable car up to ~4000m and the summit is about another 700 meters (3-5 hours) from there. The hike had insane views of the city and the last km was just open face rock climbing which was so much fun and […]

Best volunteer fam everrr. Our room smells hecka bad but we still look good and enjoy exploring the city together when we are not making breakfast! Tomorrow we will buy some incense!! Also Tarquín won’t let us get a pet:( We offer an international mix of Bermuda, Brasil, Spain and the US which is ideal […]