Guapulo festival

I went to the Guapulo festival with Mark, Evelyn and Mane last Sunday. The actual festival only lasted for about half and hour and consisted of some local dancers doing a typical andean dance to local andean music. It was fun just roaming through the streets and taking pics. There was also a group of people doing capoeira - Mark was not impressed!

England World Cup bid at the embassy in Quito

All the International members of staff from the British School Quito were invited to the British embassy for an official press conference for the England World Cup bid. The special guest was supposed to be Antonio Valencia but he didn't show up - how rude! There were lots of Ecuadorean footballers there of which one was De La Cruz, who's lovely daughter goes to our school. We actually got to dress up for once, which was nice. Below are just a few of the pictures of the evening.

Guapulo gig

Mark and Ewan arranged to play a gig at the Cafe Arte in Guapulo. They were really good and it was a great atmosphere (apart from the fact Mark kept telling me to shut up as I was talking too loudly - cheeky git!)

Mindo cloud forest - School residential trip

This year Tom and I took our Year 4's on a trip to Mindo cloud forest for their annual residential trip. Brianna and Evelyn came along too. The children are studying rainforests in class so they got to have the rainforest as their classroom for the day. We firstly visited a place called 'Tucanopy,' where we all went on a jungle walk through the rainforest. We saw huge leaves that we could all fit under, had a go at eating leaves that tasted of lemon and saw trees that are endanger of extinction. The kids loved it.








After the jungle walk, we had a go at flying across the rainforest canopy on large zip-wires. All the kids did it alone, which was quite an achievement, it was lots of fun!



We visited the Mariposario in Mindo and lots of the kids and Evelyn had butterflies on their heads! The butterflies are so beautiful and come in all different sizes and colours. Finally we went to a local hostel where we could see large numbers of hummingbirds and parrots in the wild. Then we headed back to school - it was a very tiring trip!