First off, thanks Rob for the recent guest series on various volunteer and development opportunities. Your experiences and incites were concise and objective, great advice to the budding idealist in Latin America. While reading your entries and others on the site lately, I have been deeply consid[...]
Posts Tagged ‘Quito’
November 29th, 2011 - 6:00 am § in Careers, Ecuador, Looking for Opportunity, Tips & Resources, Volunteer, Volunteer Spotlight
La Vida: Teaching English in Quito, Ecuador
Mindo’s Green Revolution
“Han escuchado la historia de tourism en Mindo?” Have you heard the history of tourism in Mindo? “No.” Ok, well….. It’s a story of deforestation and reforestation; of destruction and rejuvenation; of changing perceptions of land use; and of ecology. Last week when I visited Mindo (a smal[...]
Ciclovia Vigilantes
“Ladrone, Ladron, cojelo, paralo!” I was on my cell phone coordinating a bike outing with several of the new teachers here in Quito when I saw a gruff man, have stumbling, half jogging across Rio Amazonas. Then people started yelling, breaking the early-morning silence with pointed commands: [...]
June 18th, 2010 - 11:00 am § in Around Town, Ecuador
Homecoming
I expected re-entry into the US to be somewhat difficult when I came back from Ecuador. Standard wisdom says it’s harder to come back home than it is to go abroad. Certainly that was my experience when I lived in Japan—it was difficult getting used to the tightly controlled chaos that is Tokyo. [...]
May 7th, 2010 - 10:15 am § in Around Town, Ecuador
Confessions of an Urban Volunteer
There are certain things I know I like to have in order to be happy: ample exercise, a variety of foodstuffs (with lots of fresh fruits and veggies), and a network of interesting and intelligent friends who I can speak to in English (much as I hate to admit it). How many of those things would [...][...]
