It's now 2 weeks before I go to Ecuador and 1 week before I leave Porto. It's been quite a hectic summer, geting my things ready. I got all my vaccinations a while back, totalling 7. I got some money off a big rucksack because one strap was a bit damaged but it won't be a problem; it's just good to get €16 off! Other than that, I've needed to buy rubber boots, gardening gloves and just decide what I'm going to take. It doesn't get neither really hot nor cold there, the temperature is quite constant, around 20-25ºC. I should be there in the dry season but it will still rain, just not as much as from January.
I'm really looking forward to getting into the projects. There are going to be hundreds of species of animals and plants that I haven't seen before and lots of things that I want to do, like building from natural materials and working in the organic garden.
Over the last few weeks, apart from getting my removals sorted out (they went on the 11th) and getting storage in the UK, I took on a challenge to write a novel in a month. It was very interesting.I started with no idea of what the story would be about but I stuck with it and finished in 27 days (65,500 words!). I finished that yesterday and need to finish checking it before I publish it on Amazon as an ebook. It is called 'In A Small Northern Town' and will have the synopsis on the book page.
I am already working on my plans for after India, too. In the light of the recent UK riots, my Our Own Future projects seems even more relevant and I have a good feeling that it's going to work. To earn money, I plan to use one of my ideas on there which is teaching in the community. Hopefully after being in Ecuador, I can teach about permaculture and also Spanish, in community centres but I'll wait till December to start sorting that out.
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