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La Chimba by Dan Davis

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I went to La Chimba because it's history of political activism fit in well with my Sociology/Anthropology studies. My aim was primarily to help the community through my volunteer work, and secondarily to find a study topic for the independent study I was doing for my undergraduate work. Once there, the form my work took was teaching English. The classes were fun, but small. The teaching materials were few, and the lessons were comprised of writing on the board with the students copying notes-there were no textbooks. As I had never taught any type of class before this time, each day was a learning experience for both student and teacher. Another project I became involved in was writing a brief cultural history of the town, dating from pre-Inka times to the present. This paper was written at the request of the local director of the indigenous group, which was convienent for me because it fit in well with my studies. In this project, I was given names of possible interview subj...
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¿Y si me hubiera casado? Por Melinda Savić Graduada en español en la Universidad de Michigan y con conocimientos de Inglés, francés y bosnio-yugoeslavo, escribió este relato en español sobre su primera semana entre indígenas de los Andes, con un guión de adaptación a radio y video en tres idiomas Martes, el 2 de octubre 2007, las 11:30 de la mañana, Terminal Terrestre, Quito, Ecuador, yo buscando un bus para Balda Lupaxi, un lugar desconocido en la Sierra ecuatoriana, un lugar desconocido para mí al menos. Chequeando los buses para Cuenca porque se supone que sigo la misma ruta. ¡Bingo! El que vende los boletos dice que sí conoce. ¡Chévere! Compro el pasaje y voy hacía donde el bus,… Parece que no soy la única que no conoce el lugar; el chofer no tiene ni idea a donde voy,…Regresa a la taquilla y se lo pregunta al hombre que vende los tickets. “¡Ah ya! Bien, bien” y me dice que suba al bus yo pues, toda contenta: “¡Por fin!” Pronto, dejamos Quito, o eso creo, pues e...
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My volunteer report

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elcome To My Home Page Here is my report about the projects I visited. For a brief summary have a look at the "About Page". the coast In all the projects at the coast we stayed only about two days, because we were about to find out what the next volunteers can do there. In first case to have a better coordination in Quito. So it was a very special trip for Ecotracker-volunteers. From Quito we took the nightbus to Borbon and after some hours of waiting at that dirty place we managed to catch the first lancha(motorized canoe) of the day to San Jose. The sun was shining extremly strong for the whole three-hour-ride up the Rio de Cayapas and the narrow canoe of course didn't have a roof. So we were really glad as we finally arrived. San Jose is a remote village in the selva(special kind of forest) where the houses are still built in a traditional way and the first thing I noticed was the red soil. The poeple there are dark-skinned so we with our light skin were a big attr...
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