Friday, June 30, 2006
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Option SENS has this strange power to catapult students into all directions. What are they doing now?
Elianne, Marc-Antoine, and Marie-Pier Amilie are already back in Quebec. It must be there to be some who work for other lazy!
Jessica, Maude and Ioana benefit from a further 10 days in Ecuador before returning to Quebec. Ioana expects to complete the summer in Romania!
Pascale and Dolores are in Mexico.
Julien C. in El Salvador.
Patrick is made in Argentina. It will soon be joined by Antonin and Francis (I think!).
Audrey, Veronica, Isabella and Marie-Claude are already in Peru. They will also be joined by a large number of students who do a final round of Ecuador before continuing south. This is particularly the case of Roxanne, Benjamin, Emily Anne, Gabrielle, Catherine, Emily, Julian L. and Gabriel. Most of them will then scatter in South America (Brazil, Argentina, Bolivia, etc.).
Everyone should be back by next ... February! Waiting for new
all of you, at least each time you change countries. Sacred grasshoppers!
Well, I leave you, I'm leaving in a few minutes to Guatemala!
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I reserved a special thank you to super-Yves, my main companion for adventure.
This man is a base, a fort on which we can all build. I greatly admire (and even a little envy) for the quality of the relationships it is capaple maintain with students.
You are my model in 10 years I want to be like you (but not smoking!)!
Thank You for joining infinitely I have jumped on this train that was traveling pretty fast already.
I add a thank you from each student! Thank you Yves! Thank you Yves! Thank you Yves! Thank you Yves! Thank you Yves! Thank you Yves! Thank you Yves! Thank you Yves! Thank you Yves! Thank you Yves! Thank you Yves! Thank you Yves! Thank you Yves! Thank you Yves! Thank you Yves! Thank you Yves! Thank you Yves! Thank you Yves! Thank you Yves! Thank you Yves! Thank you Yves! Thank you Yves! Thank you Yves! Thank you Yves! Thank you Yves!
is repeated all this in a few weeks!?
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A year ago we were facing a clean slate. We began this adventure without knowing a single person in Ecuador. If the course was a success Thanks to the participation of many people.
Thanks to Peter and Pascal, my first companions in the adventure, however, left the ship to deliver their respective infants. Thank you for your help and your support throughout the year and congratulations on your adorable little ones.
Thanks to all the former teachers of meaning that I have consulted 1000 times and have always been good advice: Guy, Louise, Andrew, Lucy, Jean-Jacques Paul. And thank you to the other teachers who have the hands on ensuring the success of the project, especially Frederic and Stephen.
Ecuadorians to all our partners who have decided to try their luck without really knowing what they were getting and did everything to make it a success: the UPOCAM á Jipijapa (Jose Negrete, Elias, Alejo, Rafael, Carlos Ernesto Sixto and all families who hosted the students), the Sisters of Mercy in Pascuales (Jeannine, Celine, Rose-Aimee and Maria Theresa and family there too) to Katherine of Camino del Cambio and the whole world of CORDTUCH.
A huge thank you to our intermediaries through whom we have discovered these wonderful communities and thanks to whom communications were pleasant and efficient: Azucena Tamayo, Narcisa Negrete and his family in Ecuador (Irma, Roberto, Romel and those whose names I forget), Verónica Bustamante, Consul General of Ecuador in Montreal, Richard Simard Development and Peace, Isabelle Dorion Dreamkapture Travel Tom Walsh, Genevieve Bleau and Yves Perry.
A thank you very, very special to Paul-Emile Bourque, Director of the Cégep de St-Laurent who believed in us and who spared no efforts to make our lives easier. Ditto for the members of the administration, support staff of the Foundation of the college who have joined him. We really feel that you were doing a little more for us!
to our donors: the Foundation of the college, the Parents Committee, the OQAJ, CSN, Law and Democracy, FNEECQ, and sponsors of each student. Without you the lives of these young adults would not have much enriched the summer.
Finally everyone I forget, here now in the jungle, surrounded by mosquitoes, I also thank you for all this is a teamwork.
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I do not want it to end! I have so many different things to say: other exotic fruits, electioneering, the adventures of students Pascuales I finally know. But all good things come to an end and as my stay Ecuador ends although I must end this blog. If you want to know more, you will come back next year to follow the blog of SENS 2007!
The course had several purposes:
last group photo:
Last Supper:
first separation when half the group left for Guayaquil and the other part remained to Playas:
The next day was the first international departures. Thursday morning we woke up at 6:30 to greet Yves, Marie-Pier, Amil, Marc Anthony and that Elianne return to Montreal. It is always best to go first. Snif!
Minutes later Audrey, Isabella, Veronique and Marie-Claude left the hotel to Peru. Re-sniff!
And finally a few hours later Antonin, Maude, Ioana, Jessica and Francis were the last to leave the hotel to Baños.
I expected them to leave before leaving myself as a captain who must be the last to leave his boat. For me this adventure lasted a year. A year of time with these students daily. A year to think about them day and almost night in the hope that they live an unforgettable experience. A year to neglect everything else ... I could not contain tears (and even some tears) when I found myself alone with the emptiness that had created the departure of the last students. Snif! Snif! Snif!
Fortunately I had left some test papers to correct!
I left Guayaquil to quickly change my mind. When I entered the bus that would take me to Guaranda, heart still heavy, I found myself faced with this sticker:
"Time passes but memories remain" An end worthy of a movie!
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During the year we have been saying to students that feel this was not a trip but an internship. The proof is the comprehensive examination which took place on the last day. The least we can say is that the classroom where the examination took place was a bit peculiar:
Friday, June 23, 2006
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I've little about transport, yet it is a very important aspect of Ecuador and South America in general. As Cars are expensive, and anyway it is risky to leave them unattended in the street, the vast majority of people moving in transit. In the city taxis are plentiful but still expensive for Ecuadorians since it costs about $ 2 on 10 minutes when the city bus costs about 25 cents to travel the same distance (and as it takes 45 mnutes instead of 10, it is much cheaper per hour !!!).
For interprovincial travel, buses are more comfortable and it takes about $ 1 an hour of transport. For example, the Quito-Riobamba trip takes 4 hours and costs $ 3.50 And no joke, it's not really comfortable unless Orléans Express charge $ 45 for Montreal-Quebec. In
countryside and small towns, everything is possible! It goes from the famous ranchera about which I have already spoken and that I could find a picture ... (And not the least! It is when we had a puncture Jipijapa back toward last week:)
... until small van in which we can try to break records .. . (14 students here and all their luggage in Playas!)
... or larger vans which run rain or shine time ... (here is a trip of one hour in the rain with Ioana)
... via Pachamobile, the van's UPOCAM. It's a van a little special that I had the great privilege of driving, to the delight of students!
is that last Saturday night a small group of students and I had to go to highlight Father's Day in El Anegado, the community of Catherine, a short half hour drive from Jipijapa. Unfortunately the person who would take us there did not appear, leaving us alone with the Pachamobile (named because in recent elections it was used to make propaganda for the party Pachakutik). To have already made trips with her, I knew how it was in bad shape, but I do not doubt how much!
I was offered the lead up to El Anegado and I have been prepared: remove the board and the newspapers which serve as driver's bench to add 2 liters of water in the engine is exactly under the seats; assess the amount of gasoline by dipping a stick into the tank (through one hole of said reservoir); grow fifty times on a button to, I guess, to raise gasoline to the engine. Regarding the lack of mirrors, suspension, horn (though essential here) and speedometer, fuel mileage and could not do anything about it.
bidonnées Students were in the very long coastline that would move up from the outset and in which I was unable to go into 2nd gear. But ultimately I must admit that the transmission is the only thing that works not so bad on this garbage.
We had a blast on the road. A gringo driving this thing with 4 gringa in the box back, it does not go unnoticed! We arrived without problems in El Catherine Anegado where we waited with his family.
And we came back the next day also without problem. It was enough to put 2 liters of water in the engine and weigh about fifty times on the button!
Thursday, June 22, 2006
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Sorry for the radio silence, I was kept away from internet for 5 days due to severe end of the course. Indeed, the internship officially ended Tuesday but I have seen from the last students this morning (Thursday).
The blog is not finished yet. I promise you several texts for Friday and Saturday issue of telling the end of this great adventure. I also asked students to give me news of their travels in Latin America when I update the blog periodically over the next 6 months.
So stay faithful back soon, soon, with texts and pictures.
Sunday, June 18, 2006
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that ends tomorrow is the portion of "families" of course. It only remains to return to Guayaquil to conduct the final review and partying on the beach at the aptly named town of Playas.
My greatest regret has been not being able to visit all the students in their family. Since two weeks I concentrated on students most distant to make sure everything was okay since I saw the other almost daily in the city. Ironically, so I will not see houses Emily Anne, Benjamin and Emily who are either in town or relatively close.
But you will understand why I run out of time when you know what it takes to visit the most distant students. I dared not speak before on the blog for fear of worrying parents, but now that the internship is completed without glitches, you know where your children live! The farthest
are Patrick, Antonin, Eliane and Maude. All further apart than others, in directions different. You can try to follow on this card I made for our arrival in Jipijapa find me (there is apparently no official map of the area!):
Take for example the Antonin house, where I went Friday. If you want to track on the map, starting from Jipijapa must go east (right) then take the road (arrow) that rises to the top right corner of the map.
short, to go Antonin must first take a bus kind of wood called La Ranchera (unfortunately I do not pictured). It takes 1:30 to get to the city Noboa's where you should take another Ranchera for 30 minutes until the start of the dirt road that takes us to El Tamarindo. The dirt road, walk (or take a horse but I have no horse, so you have to walk!). And it goes up! Good god it up! But it's beautiful! Good god, how beautiful!
After 40 minutes of walking was the reward of getting to that point of view overlooking the small community of El Tamarindo
From there you can see far, far away, very, very Home away from Angel Silva, the traditional medicine specialist hosting Antonin. And this is where we begin to hope they'll be at home because the cell phone network does not go there when there is no way to announce his visit!
Anyway, after more than 2h30 of transportation and so much sweat over, it is not about rebrouser path so close (!) Goal. While walking fast (luckily it down) we came home 20 minutes later. Wow! Nice house!
The meeting with the families is worth every effort made to get there. They are always super-friendly people who are happy to show us their part of the country. So we chatter for an hour, dinner and then hop must be returned at a run because the last 16h Ranchera goes ... to an hour's walk from here!
And if it is missing? It turns back (1 hour walk) and layer with Antonin!
Results: 6 hour trip to visit 2 hours! Get involved ... he said
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What a surprise Friday morning to find ourselves in the newspaper El Diario ! Like all other newspapers across the country, the largest daily in the province of Manabi devoted many pages to victory in Ecuador against Costa Rica in World Cup football and especially the parades spontannés held in all cities. We participated in the parade in spite of ourselves a bit because we were out of town to work in another community. But in our "box pick-up we seemed to celebrate like everyone else ... what we did indeed! Our photo essay that appeared in the paper presented to the A4 page is legitimate
The photo caption at top right reads: "In Jipijapa algunos extranjeros is unieron al festejo" . And zooming in on the photo is very well recognized Jessica, Julian, Emily Anne, Benjamin (side) and William (the back of the truck).
I keep a copy of the newspaper for those who want to roll the page!
Thursday, June 15, 2006
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One of the nicest things of Ecuador is arguably the great variety of products found on each floor. Among these products, fruits are those who impress us the most because Quebec is poorly equipped in this area. Here we do sometimes surprising discoveries. Like maracuya (better known in Quebec as the passion fruit) that grows abundantly in the land of Élianne.
Today in the forest of bambu we made the discovery of the mamey. A strange fruit whose flavor resembles a blend of orange and papaya but its shape is more like a melon mixed with coconut.
Anyway for some very pleasant discovery this was a good excuse to relax the hard work out of the bambu forests! Sacred lazy!
And when this is not the exotic fruits that surprises us is abundance!
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Thursday, June 15 Today was a busy day and complete success!
Ecuador played his second game of the World Cup football at 8am and there was no question as to work during a match as important as this one (nor for Ecuadorians or in Quebec) we decided to prepare a lunch at the Quebec UPOCAM to enjoy listening to the game. On the menu: pancakes and French toast with maple syrup and nutella and fruit salad.
People's UPOCAM made it big in projecting the game on a giant screen. On our side we have done rather well under the circumstances. Make pancakes for 30 people without the whip, without tip and with 2 stoves that are more like bowls than stoves, it is an achievement.
But the real achievement is the team from Ecuador who has accomplished, winning a second game so that nobody here thought she would win one. Historic victory that ensures the team go to the second round for the first time in their history. The atmosphere at UPOCAM and the street was extraordinary. A great moment lived intensely, even by those who resented not necessarily football. I revienderai soon with photos.
But finally the most intense moment of the day was the sacar caña, which could result in "out of the bamboo forest". We went to help a farmer (the "adoptive father" of Amelia) out of wood (bamboo) that he had cut on his land. Obviously nothing is mechanized and everything is done by hand. Ow! Ow! Ow! What a job! We understand why Quebec is the preferred technique "clearcut". Out of 4 meters of bamboo can be very heavy with a dense forest and hilly, it is work very, very, very difficult.
We were 15 to work for about 4 hours and we barely pulled out a fifty "logs". Here is the fruit of our "harvest"
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past few days our busiest days are funny as last week. The group is actively working in Guayaquil on an art project with young people at the school where they work and Jipijapa students participate in activities UPOCAM (Organization of farmers in the province of Manabi). I have little contact with the group of Guayaquil, which is why the photos you see on this blog relate only group Jipijapa. But if a student wants Guayaquil send me a text with pictures, I'll be happy to publish it (message!!). At
Jipijapa our occupations were varied and depend a little of each student. But to illustrate the best of what life is like here, I'll do a little exercise that historians call the "micro-history." It consists in studying the life of a person considering it is representative of the lives of others. I decided to follow that of Julian Cournoyer was especially noticed in recent days.
Tuesday Last Julien (as all other students) went to Rocafuerte, a city located in northern 1:30, to attend the 28th anniversary of the UPOCAM. We have organized a football match between the national team of Canada (nous!) to the team's UPOCAM. And believe it or not, we've done pretty good figure! I think the match ended 3-2 for them. (Okay, I admit, we gave citizenship to an Ecuadorian and a French national but this is the kind of thing that is also at the professional level while ...!)
At this festival we also discovered that Julian is a charmer and he knows how to attract the ladies on the dance floor ... even if he does not know perfectly (!) the steps of a salsa or merengue !
The next day I went to see Julian at his home in El Secal, a tiny village in the countryside of Jipijapa. It was hard at work in building the wall inside a septic tank.
His family says he works well and eat well too. It must be said that our gringos have a reputation of having appetites of birds. They tend not to be able to finish their plate. But do not blame them. You should see the serving size! Phew! In warm weather, we're not used to taking a hearty dinner of soup is huge (and hot!), A piece of meat and a huge portion of rice. And there's nothing to do, impossible to get a smaller portion. The most unfortunate is the teacher. 2 students when I visit in a day, for sure that I was offered two dinners, delicious (and plentiful!) Than the other one!
(Home & Family of Julian. Eight people live in this house)
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And while we are back again, why do not you say a word of Chimborazo, the volcano of 6350 meters, the highest mountain in Ecuador and also one of the highest in America ( compared Mont Blanc in Europe is just 4800 meters).
We benefited from the fact that we lived at the foot of the mountain to make a trip to base camp and even a little more for the fittest and most adventurous.
The bus left us at 4800 meters and almost everyone then walked to the refuge at 5000 meters.
(If you look closely you see in this picture a group of students who walk to the refuge, as shown in the middle of the picture.)
This is where climbers go to the summit. They normally start to go up to 23h or midnight summit and return at 9am or 10am the next morning. The fact of climbing at night reduces the risk of being struck by a falling stone or an avalanche, and facilitates the rise because the snow is harder and more stable, especially when crossing crevasses.
In our case there was no question of making the summit. But it was still a great challenge to climb up the snow at about 5300 meters. This is what makes some students, including Marc Anthony, Patrick C. and Julien, who have brought back photos and pieces of ice to prove it.