http://blogs.bootsnall.com/Jonnie-J All that you can't leave behind... Sat, 02 Aug 2008 21:35:50 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Part of my life here entails making fires while serving food.  Then it involves serving drinks while keeping the fire going.. In the hostel there are a great many hours spent meeting and talking to guests.  Still more of hostel world is greeting people when they come in and getting ... http://blogs.bootsnall.com/Jonnie-J/life-in-ecuador.html So I am in Breckenridge about to hop on a few planes to Ecuador where I am thinking I am going to volunteer at a hostel for a month while working with the yanapuma foundation.. Pretty excited but a little worn down from the end of the season..  Lots of passive ... http://blogs.bootsnall.com/Jonnie-J/a-note-before-i-go.html So far Vail has been cool.  I am a chalet host which means that I have guests come and stay with me for two weeks at a time.  Most from the U.K..  I meet them after jet lag, feed them breakfast and dinner for the duration they are here, and ... http://blogs.bootsnall.com/Jonnie-J/new-mountain-little-time.html Yeah so I am back and trying to figure out about five things at once.. Including why English speakers are just so dang boring sometimes.  I mean say it like you mean it and get it over with will ya?  Got some stuff to do know.  Two job interviews lined ... http://blogs.bootsnall.com/Jonnie-J/the-better-get-it-down-so-ill-always-remember-post-from-denver-colorado-the-day-after-i-spent-fifteen-hours-traveling-dang.html So today I am going to hop on a bus and find some sunshine. Just need a little time out of the city and in the mountains, on the coast, and without a grammer lesson. Spanish school has been good and it's been fun trying to get my head around ... http://blogs.bootsnall.com/Jonnie-J/travel-day.html So today I woke up at five in the morning to the sound of constuction outside my window.. How do you start building shite at five in the morning in downtown Quito.. Seattle weather outside.. Rain, Rain, Rain.. I swear there is a mountain that reminds me ... http://blogs.bootsnall.com/Jonnie-J/mui-facil-es-engles.html  I have just finished my first week of Spanish classes> four hours a day and at the end of the day I can't remember a thing..  But I have a great teacher who knows when to demand my attention.. Monday I start teaching las ninos English so sometime this weekend I ... http://blogs.bootsnall.com/Jonnie-J/first-week.html So I think there is a rule that the minute you take a step out of your world you intantly get what you need the most when you arrive at your destination.. It´s a liitle suprising when you walk into an office in another country and find out that you have ... http://blogs.bootsnall.com/Jonnie-J/quito.html It's about time to go and I have been busy trying to remember everything I need to do and who I need to contact. I did manage to see a few people before I leave but on the whole it's been a little tough getting a hold of people and I ... http://blogs.bootsnall.com/Jonnie-J/last-minute-details.html I am going to Ecuador on Thursday for a month to learn Spanish and volunteer.  And yup, I am pretty dang psyched up for it.  the organization that I am going to participate with is here!  http://www.yanapuma.org/Quitovol.html They have projects around Quito and Ecuador and fund these projects from thier Spanish ... http://blogs.bootsnall.com/Jonnie-J/going-to-ecuador-thursday.html