I haven’t stopped for a moment to write down all the things I wanted to about Quito Quest training this year. But here is a photographic glimpse of what has been happening for the past couple of weeks.
Photos from Training ’18
Category: Photos
Emaús Pics (2016 Day 1)
I like words enough that I don’t always agree that a picture is worth a thousand of them. But here are a baker’s dozen for those of you who do.
The team getting ready to start their day.
Welcome Sewanne team (and Caroline, Danny and Josh)!
One of the walls in the Sunday School room, which was painted 3 years ago by my youth from E.C.
Another one of the walls in the Sunday School room, which was painted 3 years ago by my youth from E.C.
The meeting room upstairs. This just had a concrete floor (and a hole in the roof) during my last visit.
Snack time!
Bending rebar “como varón!”
Bending and tying together rebar.
Up close working on the rebar.
I gave up flipping llapingachos and let Caroline handle it.
Obviously the most important activity of the day.
The Ecuadorians showed no mercy to the gringos during soccer.
The soccer game from above.
Some Random Photo Favorites
This is a picture of Quito at night, as seen from Diana’s roof. I think next to the beach and the view from El Refugio, the millions of city lights are one of my favorite scenes.
Another favorite sight in Quito is the simultaneous red and green lights. No, this is not the first time I’ve seen this. And I’ve heard from a couple of people who have been driving in Ecuador for a long time that they aren’t positive what to do upon encountering them either. I think I’d just have to treat it like a flashing red or yellow light and hope there was not a cop behind me.
Even after a team gets on the plane, you sometimes end up working just about until the next one shows up to finish out the block. But even so, you just can’t help but miss people as you match up 39 pairs of their socks. I was reminded of what my pastor at home referred to recently as the “Blessing of the Boxers,” and how simple (though maybe time-consuming) tasks can be ministries if you are open to the possibility.
I’m pretty sure this is the funniest graffiti I’ve ever seen. Especially in Quito.
First day in Photos
I suggested we get a couple of fruit salads to share. Apparently there was some difference of opinion as to how much sharing should be going on.
This is why you shouldn’t rely solely on Google Translate.
These guys found out that this is where Incan ritual human sacrifice used to take place… So of course they had to try to see inside.
Block 2 Photos
About half of my photos from block 2 (including the photos I stole from the team) are posted under photos. I’ll try to have them all up by the time we leave for the beach, but since I imagine that will mean setting a lot of them to upload overnight and I can only do one folder at a time, you might have to wait until Monday. Also, I have a strong feeling that I removed all the photos from someone’s memory card without putting them back. I have that whole folder and I can put it up on the site temporarily as a zip file for download. Just let me know via e-mail.
Photos Up
So I have finally got my Flickr Plugin working and my photos are up. This particular plugin doesn’t update super-fast, so the best way to view the new ones is on my flickr page, quite a few are showing up right now. I’m in the process of getting all of mine moved over there, even the Ecuador ones. So keep an eye on them. Just hit the “photos” link at the top of this page (or if you’re reading this on facebook, click right here).