go buckeyes

Well, this will likely be my last blog entry for a little while, as we´re headed back to the Sierra tomorrow morning...and then going on a 10-day tech trip back to the Oriente later in the week. While we are 0 for 4 on seeing Buckeye tourney basketball games...(although Chris has provided vivid play-by-play recaps of the games for us. Thanks Chris!!!) we did have the pleasure of keeping tabs of their progress via the internet...although it was suuuuuuuuuuper slow (a score update every 3 minutes or so...okay, so maybe it was 30 seconds...but you get the picture: painfully slow).

We´ve had a very productive, yet still relaxing few days in Puyo. I finished my 4 month initial workplan with the Waorani women´s group. It was a little bit of a process...as they seemed very hesitant to sign it. I am assuming that it is because they have been burned on contracts they have signed in the past... don´t know for sure, but can only speculate. I´ll have lots of interesting things to do when I get back to town. Other highlights: ate some p¡zza (twice!)...Bought some Waorani jewelry (3 pairs of earrings, a small purse, a necklace and a bracelet for $10...) yes, I will be marketing this to my friends in the states!. Met some American missionaries (there are a lot of them around these parts)...checked out the ethnographic park...walked around town...learned that one of the pizza joints delivers! Also learned that you can hire taxis to run errands for you....and that Nip/Tuck is aired on one of the cable channels... got an email confirming that Krista and Caleb will be our first visitors... woo hoo!!!...and that Jeremy´s office mates are on two opposite ends of the political spectrum (after a lively debate about world politics and communism while we ate pizza...a winning combo!). Okay, so Jeremy just announced we can get world wrestling matches on TV here, but no NCAA basketball games... the injustice of it all!!! (not to mention the fact that we´re watching cable tv...hardly a PC thing to do). Well, gonna sign off...

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