Tena!

Hey all. a few of us are sitting in an internet cafe in Tena right now straight off of our project phase in Missahualli. We spent the week helping the town out with building new bathrooms and playing with the local kids who are all adorable. We´re all very excited to be staying in a hostel tonight though so we can shower (yay!!) and relax and do laundry (yay again!!) before heading out into the jungle for the next 4 days. The street food here is very good... and cheap! yum!
- Juliana

Arrival at Quito!

We´ve made it to Quito!
Currently, we´re staying at Hostal Jhomana, which includes breakfast and free internet.
We arrived at the hostel around 1030 pm.
We´ll be staying here for two days.

June 30th, 2009
Build-up Day: 2:00pm

- Flights:

July 1st. 2009
Departure from La Guardia: 12:05 PM

- Return Flights:

August 1st, 2009
Ecuador - Miami: 9:30AM-2:35PM
Miami - La Guardia: 4:20pm-7:20PM

First Post!

Hey everyone,

Our team blog is finally up and running! We'll be keeping in touch with everyone through this blog while we're in Ecuador, so check back every so often to see what we've been up to! Team Build-Up Day's this coming Tuesday at 2:00pm, don't forget!

Our team is comprised of 8 students:
Jessica Carlisi
Luis Gaitan
Juliana Hedeman
Joyce Rao
Kristen Schurman
Vinod "Vinny" Singh
Nick Stefanidis
Andrea Yip

And our two leaders:
John Lavas
Melissa Ebone

We'll be gone from July 1st to July 31st--Wish us luck!


--Joyce