Mangos, Marathons and Bailes! Must be Christmas?

Reading: Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry

Okay, so for a hodge-podge of blogging, as I have no real way of weaving this into one cohesive post...

First, I've joined this folkloric dance group and we had a first competition and second performance... I have tons of pictures and I'm working on uploading videos, but youtube is so slow it's ridic... but here's one, minus the last two minutes (the women taping gave up the camera to join the dance... so it ended up in two parts)

Food Security

Reading: Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Upon arriving at pre-service training, the 21 sustainable ag volunteers that made up omnibus 105 were informed that we were the last group of ag vols in Ecuador, as the program was ending at the end of the year. The remaining ag vols would be dissolved into the health program under the veil of food security. (This would not be that much of an issue in the life of a volunteer, except for the fact that the communities requesting volunteers were rarely informed of this bureaucratic change of objectives.)

Regardless of the politics or effectiveness of this change, the 17 of us sust. ag vols plus the newest group of health volunteers spent this last week back in the Tumbaco training center for a debriefing on what exactly is food security and the newest objectives that we're now suppose to be meeting.