Living in Tonsupa

Tonsupa is a poor beach town. Me, two other volunteers, and and a native helper, were to come here and help teach kids English. When we arrived on Monday we learned that our school had planned seminars for the teachers, so there is no class this whole week. That means I am not doing what I have set out to do, an in turn has put a thorn in my spirit to help. I suppose it is indicative of the disoragnization that I have whitnessed first hand within the poor schools here in Ecuador.
To add to the lack of continuity, the rany season has progressed later thatn usual here. It is either raining or cloudy every day. However, I try to stay positive and have enjoyed both my host families and the other volunteers whom I´ve met, here in Tonsupa and in Cumbaya. Although the families are of different financial scales, they have both been extremely hospitable. They also both have toddlers who really took to me and vice versa.
OH! I almost forgot to mention! I have been cooking for everyone here. Including 50 people at the guarderia(nursery), the whole volunteer group(20), family in Cumbaya(10), and here in Tonsupa(8). So, I suppose above all other things I have illuminated my love for food and cooking here in Ecuador. I know there is one person above all others I know that will appreciate that...