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As we leave this weekend, four students to Switzerland, we have the final pictures of the whole gang, I'll have to. Jan and Silvia go with the family, as every year to their grandparents, Micaela and Yesseña have been invited by Christine von Steiger for two months in Switzerland. For the girls it is the first big trip, they are very nervous, because the trip to Quito, because of the flies, the train operator, possible because of everything. We are excited to see how they fare.

The photos fill me with sadness a bit.

But even with pride: They were now 10 months, "our students".

We will miss ...

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Kichwapolitik I - und Die Minga Meeting die

Like every Monday morning when the Amazoonicoküche the meeting takes place, we see Jaime in top form. He is (I've already written a few times) keeper of Selva Viva, also father of Sacha and the Padres de familia (Parents) Secretary. He has also held positions else, something political. Jaime likes to talk a lot and, as it should be for a politician, and not everything is one hundred percent true, or at least exaggerated, as befits so well for a politician. In any case, he always has an impressive list of animals he claims to have seen in the forest, while Ruben, another keeper and I think the more competent, his weekly report is usually presented in a short time. Whatever the case ...

At a Monday meeting four weeks ago we asked Jaime if the Minga, we would have agreed with his wife at the parent meeting, now taking place. Yes, he'll come anyway, even up to the school, then he can inform the children of the same, he said. He appeared, however, is not and so we assumed that he would organize the Minga writing.

A Minga is an occasion where all parents of students required together for the good of the school contribute. In our case, this is cut with machetes, for example, the knee-high grass around the building, freeing up the stairs of debris, the broken cook house appeared clear away, etc.

When, on Friday none of the Padres de la familia, it was clear that the Minga would not take place. Jaime said, hinting that it did not fit his personal time.

A week later I saw him in the morning walk from the nursery, so rather sneak, which made him a bit suspicious. When I asked for Gloria, what Jaime had wanted, she showed me the template that he had pushed her to the Hand: An Invitation to Minga, formally set up, with instructions to copy the Gloria was to him 15 times by hand.

Yes where to go for that? Jaime is the secretary and not Gloria, even if an older man and she is a younger woman. I asked Gloria, not to make copies and Jaime wrote a friendly but firm letter: Gloria was responsible at our school teacher and not in that position (and also not have the time) for the copying of invitations. We hoped to be understanding. Best regards, Directora blabla (because it sounds good and gives the dish an official Touch).

The Minga took place. Jaime has somehow organized, but I do not think he had written the invitations themselves. Lucilla, his wife gave us toxic Look, very likely she had to play the secretary of the secretary, but it is actually president of Parents. Kichwapolitik ...

Jaime has swung the machete for the entire Minga never did but always with the Chichabecher the round, which was also an important task. For working with Marisol, as she had not released two weeks ago a girl.

these spontaneous Minga led a parents' meeting - a reunion. I was taken and then sat in a circle like the others, either squatting, sitting cross-legged or sitting on boards. First, on Kichwa school debt recited every family, then we came to the "Agenda Item" wrap party. (This agenda item replaced it in our teacher's house the first big row made since last August, but such ugly scenes, I need you're not in a more or less public blog to describe, right?) For parents, it was clear that the party on should find the Friday before the big holiday instead, that each family bring a chicken and chicha, and should otherwise have food, so it would be enough safe for my family. Then the music system, the generator and the Gasolina were organized for the generator. Fortunately, words like Gasolina were made in English, or I had always understood from the giggles and hearty laughter interrupted by Kichwa nothing.

The most important came at the end: The Padres de familia have decided to send the following Monday, a committee in the Bilingüe in Tena and finally the demand by the President of Bilingüe personally promised reward for Gloria. They asked me to accompany the committee and to close the school, their older children should watch out finally at home on the kids when they were all in Tena. We teachers were called the plan accepted by heart! We also wanted to finally, that Gloria got her well deserved reward. (We still do!)

PS: I'm sorry I mean the reader such a long, confusing text feel, without him at least to lard it with colorful pictures.

Platelet Proliferation

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What in the jungle so all creeping and crawling ....


We are well used to all the different animals and their constant noise level in the jungle, in the morning shaking the boot is now routine. I have often wished that we had a competent, ever-ready leader who could give us all the professional information critters. But there is something not very many species of rain forest have yet to be discovered scientifically. And amazed we only - without the name or anything to do with the animal.

frogs we kept in our apartment. You always feel at home - it's everywhere wet. A very impressive toad we have seen in the branches of a fallen tree. She was very well camouflaged as a tree and moved under our close monitoring, not so much they trusted in their camouflage.

we almost always find scorpions the toilet of the school building. Your stitches should be comparable to a bee sting, said the volunteers, who had not shaken the boots.

A very exciting, if ultimately a bit nerve-racking experience we had with the Tamarinaffen, which were released to third. The first day they were
observed by the volunteers every turn, to respond immediately should anything go wrong. I met the 10-Clock-break (something there, just ohni Kafi u croissants) I met Olivia, the large females looking for. I promised to notify me if we should discover it. We actually found two hours later in our rat trap had renewed because of the visitation made by these rodents sharp stood in the kitchen. The Tamarinäffchen looked relaxed on chirped a bit and went after his release unimpressed next to the tree. He seemed to have fallen so much that it took both his colleagues in the afternoon and again broke into our house in our house. We were hours busy trying to plug the loopholes and the herauszubefördern Chichicos with brooms and buckets again. It seemed a never-ending story to be. As you can see, one of the little guy has even sipped my coffee ...