the second day of our trip, we visited a school and an Indian school. Remember, a school is like "elementary school" and college is like high school. "The school is bilingual and is organized differently to our system. For example,students have no exams or levels. Instead, each student works at their own pace and advance when ready. At school, children speak mostly English but also learn Quichua. Their classrooms are very simple and is taught at many levels simultaneously. Everywhere people are very friendly. The children were happier when they took pictures.
 | Indigenous Students at the school. I think This Was Their first time in a picture! |
 | \t\tThe mission that we stayed in. |
 | \t\tInside of the indigenous classroom. They have a blackboard on each wall to teach 4 different levels of students at once. |
 | \t\tA normal Amazon house. |
 | \t\tStudents from the bilingual school. |
CHTf Idaho and I went in a bus to a Catholic Mission in the community of Canelos. In the bus, we traveled through the cities of Ambato, the capital of the province of Tungurahua, Banos, Puyo, capital of the province of Pastaza, and finally Canelos, one of the last westernized cities before the jungle.  During our trip, we saw a small part of the communities and the life of the indigenous Quichua people. The Quichua nation exists in Ecuador, Bolivia, Perú, Colombia, Argentina, Chile y Brazil and is one of the biggest indigenous societies in the Américas. In Ecuador there are 8 indigenous societies in the Amazon and three of these have almost no contact with the westernized world. The indigenous people enjoy a life like our own with some changes. For example, they have houses of wood, but a lot of the time their houses don't have four walls and have roofs of palm fronds. Also, they wear clothes but they wash their clothes in the river. Their life is simple and they value a life in harmony with nature. \t | The second day of our trip we visited a high school and an indigenous elementary school. The high school is bilingual and is organized differently than our system. For example, the students do not have tests or grade levels. On the contrary, each student works at their own pace and advances when they are ready. In the elementary school, most of the children speak Quichua but they also learn English. Their classrooms are very simple and they teach many grade levels at the Same Time. We Went Everywhere the people were very nice. The Children Were When We Took Their happiest picture.
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