I have also been exploring Quito and travelling a lot on the weekends, Ecuador is beautiful!
Archive for June, 2017
Aside from talking about birth control
Wednesday, June 28th, 20177 weeks later….
Tuesday, June 27th, 2017I’ve been really bad about posting, kind of because I’ve been busy but mostly because I’m just lazy. These past 7 weeks have gone by in a blur. It’s hard to believe I only have 2 weeks left.
In these past few weeks I’ve seen a lot of amazing places in Ecuador and met lots of really cool people that also love to talk about birth control. I know so much about all the different kinds of birth control that I could probably talk for hours about it and I’ve gotten really good at making happy condoms out of foam paper with fun messages! My favorite one is “tener sexo sin usar condon es magico, aparece un bebe y desaparece el papa” or “having sex without a condom is magical, a baby appears and the father disappears.”
While I have definitely learned a lot, this program has been REALLY different from my expectations. I had to spend a lot of time in Spanish classes that weren’t super helpful and made me lose time at Cemoplaf. I also spend a significant part of each day sitting around waiting and doing nothing. It’s also hard because June and July are the months where most kids are about to get out of school so they’re taking exams and the teachers are busy so it’s harder to visit the schools and do workshops. But we have gone to a few schools. I also had to switch host families and internship sites because of this other CFHI program so that was kind of stressful as I had to start all over again 5 weeks into my program.