Last Days in Quito

Hello fellow Americans! Soon I will be joining all of you back home :) My flight leaves for the USA this Saturday night. After 5 weeks here it will be quite weird leaving, but I am ready to return. The tutoring schedule here has changed quite a bit in the last week and will continue to change as many tutors are leaving this weekend. For that reason, I am glad to be leaving.

This past week we have been relocated from our normal building to give space to the free dental clinic being run by a dentist and a handful of dental students from UM. It is quite a process. One day this week I was actually able to volunteer as a translator in the clinic (most of the students and the dentist don't speak Spanish very well). I really enjoyed it. I learned some new dental terminology too. Like "caries" for cavities and "calza" for filling. On the day that I translated, the clinic saw 79 patients. We stopped early though because there was a big soccer game at 3:30pm and everybody was watching the game somewhere. haha

Well, it has been great these past weeks. My favorite activities have been ziplining, white water rafting, and simply spending time with the other tutors at our house. Tomorrow, it will be hard saying bye to the kids that I tutor. I hope they find a future outside of San Martin (the barrio of Quito in which they live).

I hope you've all enjoyed my blog! This will probably be my last post. Hasta la vista bebe!