Well, I’ve been here a week, and boy what a week it has been!
Here are some of the highlights from my time here thus far:

I got on the wrong bus Tuesday to go to my internship, and was wayyy south of where I should have been. I saw a man walking some goats by the [...]

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Well, I finally made it to Quito, but the going was NOT easy!
My
flight from St. Louis to Atlanta was not a problem. It was Atlanta to
Quito that proved to be rough! They switched gates on us three times;
we began at one gate, moved to another, and then they moved us back to
the original gate but [...]

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Hi everyone! I’ve got even more news about my internship and my host family today. I’m so very excited to be going! I had been wondering for a while who I would be living with, where in Quito they lived and where my program site would be at in the city. Today, though, I finally [...]

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As finals week comes to a close, I’ve been thinking more about how I have been preparing to go to Quito and what I would suggest other people do if they’d like to go abroad, too. I can’t believe I’ll be there in a little over 3 weeks! Below are some of the ways I’ve [...]

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