Ok here´s some exciting news from today:
We found out our final site placements and jobs this morning. I´ll be living in el Oriente region in a city called Tena. It´s on the edge of el Oriente and according to some info. from my brother "a portal city" into el Oriente. I´ll be working with an organization that is working on spreading awareness about global warming to a lot of indigineous Quichua communities. I still don´t know a whole lot about the specific job description and know little about Tena (I do know it´s a town of about 22,000 people and is known to be kind of touristy). Ecuadorians have said good things about it so far though. I´m very happy with my site and job placement and am excited to travel to see some really cool birds.

Here´s what we have planned for the rest of our training:
On Sunday we´re all traveling to our sites for a week solo there. We´ll be meeting or staying with our "counterparts" (the person or organization we´re assigned to work with) and will be gathering some information about the community. After that we have another week with our current host families and then leave for about 2 weeks of technical training in our regions with other volunteers who will be nearby. For the first 3 months at our site after moving there, we will live with a host family and then will find our own housing for the rest of our service.

It was an exciting day here in Cayambe. Tomorrow we have another fun day with our host family appreciation party, complete with 2 roast pigs!