people on the ecuator

This post is the 2nd in a short series of photos from Ecuador. These are pictures of people - again, in no particular order, and without captions.  Generally speaking, the white people are my students.

At a soccer game.

These are fun.  They're disposable mini-hot air balloons made out of crepe paper with a waxed paper burner.  In very gentle wind (wind tends to set them on fire) they go very, very high.  

Checking the teeth on a llama.

B shows pictures on her phone to some local kids.

S and B try a shot of Zhumir and cinnamon at a party celebrating connection of internet and phone service at this small village.

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A bullfight at the same party above.  No bulls were harmed - these people are much too poor to injure their livestock for fun.

The students and J pose down in the mountains above Rio Bamba.

B takes it in on the Guamote-Macas Road.  

An alpaca killed by a puma.

M reads in the kitchen at our field camp in Rumi Loma.  I discovered the potential of this photo purely by accident, showing another person the ins-and-outs of low-light photography.

On the coast.

Sunday in Colepato.

My "host-brother" builds a fire in the shack that I spent one day helping to put the roof on.  In his hand is a plastic bag, a way of starting a fire that works really well, and that I didn't know about.

My "host dad" Don Segundo.  This is not their house, but rather an outside shack where they do some of the cooking.

Segundo's daughter, Fannie, and granddaughter.

The whole family.  The kid in front, in the black-striped shirt, was referred to not-quite lovingly by J and myself as "the feral child".

This young girl is from Amazonas.  Can you see the difference in her facial structure from the people from the mountains?