Well, I made it to Ecuador.  All is well and the group of other volunteers seems great and of course the PC staff here is wonderful.  They make us seem like they have been waiting for us for ages !!!!  Also, from what I can tell, we will all

Some of us waiting in line at immigration in Ecuador

The greeting by the PC staff at the airport in Ecuador.  It was very sweet of all of them to meet us and help us get to the training center our first day.  Notice all the folks with lots of luggage.

The training town, Nayon, is nicknamed the Garden city.  There are nurseries all over town and they are beautiful.  This is a nursery viewed from the roof of the PC training center.

Sort of a cloudy day from the roof of the PC training center. 

be assigned to urban sites in the Andes or on the Coast...not in the Amazon.  I want to take a guided tour to the Amazon before I leave here....they say the jungle is beautiful with hundreds of species of birds and lots of wild animals...  Here are some preliminary photos..  I'll try to get some pretty ones of the flowers on the street tomorrow.