Friday, August 4, 2006

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of Antoninus and Francis Ecuador

Antonin and Francis continued to travel together after the course. After a long stay in the Amazon they returned a few days Pascuales (where Francis did his internship) and a few days at El Tamarindo ("close" to Jipijapa) where Antonin articled.

Antonin wrote many stories about their journey that seems to have been fantastic. I can not reproduce them all but here is one telling episode of their stay in the Amazon ... or at least attempt to go very low in the Amazon:


Today we are in the city of Puyo and we went to visit a military base and took a small plane, but the big bastard of no military not want to see us and told us that it cost $ 1000 and could come back tomorrow because today it's Sunday and everyone is on leave. Instead, we met an air ambulance pilot who is a gringo and charging 60 $ per person to go to the Huaorani. Tomorrow we will tour the airlines Cesna, because there are many. I'm very anxious to leave I am extremely impatient. Today while I was sitting on a terrace is a lady stopped next to me and told me: patience. I said yes patience is like that in Ecuador.

The days are tiring for nothing, we nap 2 or 3 hours every day because we always feel tired especially in cities. Not in the Amazon. Maybe we put us on all our expeditions in the jungles of Cuyabeno park. It was indeed very demanding. We left the morning only to return that evening, exhausted and filled with beautiful images and knowledge of adventure.

I just bought a big machete to 30 inches, because I gave my knife to Domingo, a native Quechua became our friend. He was in the Cuyabeno park, tourist guide speaking only English. He loved us very much. He has crafted baskets made of woven vines and crowns made of palm leaves.

So we will leave for the Amazon, even more deeply, more alone, more interesting!


few days later:

At the company avionette private ambulance we are told that we must have authorization from the COFENHAI, the Huaorani organization, because they We can not just throw it in as the Huaorani. In addition they must contact them by radio through the jungle to see if they want two gringos like us. I Isaiah us to pose as anthropologists research students who have special training and telling him everything we have done both months but could do nothing. The company could have problems to do this kind of stuff. In addition we have only passports of tourists so it works really.

The FARC will not take us hostage because we're not at the border this time. But I promise that one day Ill go, or FARC, and not that I shall know what the Huaorani people endangered and whose ancestral knowledge of the jungle are the most advanced of all the indigenous people of Ecuador.

I admire their ardiesse! How beautiful they are 20! I also admire their judgments. Return to Pascuales and Jipijapa without peer pressure and timing of the internship was a really good idea in my opinion. I have the story. Next time perhaps!

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New Gab, Gabe, Julie and Catherine

The route of this small group of students is a little hard to follow. I attempt a summary put you in context, but you can also go directly to short! After the internship

MEANING, Gabriel (Gab), Gabrielle (Gabe), Julien, Catherine and Emily went together to Baños, a town cult adventure tourism in central Ecuador. I have also met there by chance, and we did a day of cycling which we will remind long time! After
Baños, Emily returned to Quebec, Gab is mounted in Quito and the rest are down south. Gabe and Catherine stopped in Cuenca (I assume) while Julien sped swiftly to Lima.
After a few days in Quito, Gab is back down south to join Gabe and later Catherine and everyone ended up in Lima ... but Catherine quickly left to Cuzco.
It's complicated, eh! Finally, the important thing is these beautiful previews. Gab says that the trip to Lima and Lima Julien said.


Gab July 21
Dear you,
We crossed the border there is a little over a week.
We made friends in Cuenca and have "nice-starred" on the edge of a river near Vilcabamba surrounded by the lush mountains and the microclimate of the place that gave us tons of orange fruit.


After the northern Peruvian arridité awaited us. Chan Chan archaeological pre-Inca Chimu the people. Beach Huancaco we saw mill for 3 days and we here in Lima last Monday. We are welcome with a member of the troupe Vichama where is the Project Peru (Editor's note: The Peru Project is another internship Cégep St-Laurent).

People are so nice, tour of Villa El Salvador, a place of violence during the dark period of light paths. Percussion per tonne and theater, what more can I fill?

We leave tomorrow for Pisco, I wonder what draws us there?

I go back out into the city where we see less far than the horizon, and I will ride my spiral staircase.
Ciao Gab



Julien June 14
Here I am in a suburb of Lima, in a pueblo called San Salvador Villa. Here the project participants are Perú ... er .. their project. I'm just arrived yesterday morning and I have already participated in one of their workshops (art somnatique a stone or something like that).

So leaving Cuenca (Ecuador) on Monday, jai took a bus to Machala, and from there another bus to a border town that I remember the name of a another bus to another border town and from there a bus for Trujillo. In this small tour there was: a flat, two police checks, a military checkpoint, two customs, one silver lacrosse, a fast (not eat), and a total of 14 hr bus?

People Vichama, the theater troupe with which the exchange occurs Project Peru is really cool, it's totally an FTAA, Free Trade Area Art! ha ha. It's funny, especially in the context of the FTA, free trade deals with just bleed, oops signed by the new president of Peru.

Here's pretty gray, actually I think not seeing the sun Since my arrival in Peru, and say that the landscapes are rather disappointing, that is to say that for miles round there are only houses and sand, sand, sabbble ... Girls Project Peru dailleurs stiff and stuffed with chips, which does not fail here (instead of green) puisquelle live in the sand .. Ive been able to get away.

the latest news Julien still had no fleas. Good luck!

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New Julien C. El Salvador News from Patrick

After the internship in Ecuador Julie Cournoyer flew to El Salvador (Central America) to work with an organization he himself contacted. He would then climb slowly towards the north to the United States. Here is an excerpt from his message of 21 July:

I am well traveled to El Salvador and elsewhere I still am. I'm still in the first part of my trip to El Salvador and in a week to go to Chalatenango another month with the organization for which I work. I work for CRIPDES, an organization born in war and dedicated to various social issues such as the right to land, water, health and also reserves special attention to youth and women. I can not

say that I work very hard, in fact my goal was to work every day to the surrounding communities by sharing my knowledge of white such as teaching swimming (I say white because it is chlorine bleach) or first aid .

However it's slow and Latin America too, so, with the exeption of a first aid course that I gave at a school, I will attend to the "Junta Directiva" meetings Inside the community on specific topics such as creating a well or vague as the country's politics; to openings and even a flood ... I find it pretty interresting, it allows me to see how organisms are organized with the population.


Regarding the flooding, because it rained and the water is not coming in the earth. I went to help a pépinnière who have lost their flowers if they had not outputs. There were many people who came to help. In the background was not a big flood, it involved a small territory, but in the streets we were on top of the knees.

I live in a family, I'm happy. Apart from TV, DVD, VHS and three very good speakers, they are poor ... it may remind you something.


WOW! What a great experience! I do not know if he will return one day want one! But if you come back Julien, do not forget to be back to tell more in detail.

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Argentina

Here, finally, as promised, hear from those who have sent me. Patrick is in Argentina since late June. Here is an excerpt of what he wrote on July 21.

I still have a month's journey. I'm not going to tell you all down, because it would take me too long, so I'll give you a summary.

All dabord, jai spent 8 days in the capital (Buenos Aires). Its a big noisy city that adored jai. On site, I found bcp people including a French one with which BCP was amused. Then sick of the city and speak french, I went to Malargue, skiing in Las Lenas, one of the most beautiful mountains in South America for 5 days.

After I went to Mendoza for the wine routes, because cest province of Argentina that produces the most wine. In addition, jai tried horseback riding for the first time, it hurts the behind! After 5 days in Mendoza, I went to La Cumbre to join the French paragliding. Finally, we made two national parks and we will make some more and after I go back to Quebec in mid August .... basically that's it ...

Hmm ... that's nothing to be desired even those who think they have seen everything!