new town, new fam

hey everyone,
i am now living in archidona, 12 km outside of tena ecuador. i have a new host family. mom, dad, baby, and six year old host sister. they are an indigenous family. very kind and very knowledgeable. i have learned a lot about the kichwa (Quechua, spelled academically)
culture in the pat few days. i will hopefully be learning a little of the kichwa language. my host parents converse in it often. so far though i pretty much only know yacu means water and llacta means earth. which is cool cause my host fams last name is mamallacta, mother earth. bugs here aren't too bad. getting kinda bit up, and bug repelant doesn't really work. maybe cause it doesn't work on ants or various other random bugs in this part of the world. I guess taking vitamin b and eating yuca is supposed to help. i am doing plenty of both. yuca is a root that is similar to potato and they eat it with almost every meal here.
my internship is yet to begin, mostly i have been hanging out with the host fam and learning a lot from there stories. there are the festivals of tena that started yesterday and go till the 15th of november. got to see fire works last night and a parade. luckily 6 other cimas students are living around here too so we can meet up in tena pretty easily even though we are all in different communities. we all have electricity and our own rooms, which is awesome. most shower with buckets out in the open. i got lucky, we share our bathroom with another house (my aunt and uncle i think) and it has a door, and there is toilet paper. no running water in the house, but we get jugs of drinkable water. there is even an internet cafe in archidona that works relatively fast. even though little kids kinda surrounded me last time to see what i was doing, which was a little awkward.
hmmm, what else?
oh yes, how could i forgert...i ate ants
after three days of thunderstorms here these giant ants (bout 1.5 inches) come out, you collect them, fry them up, and eat them. high in protein i guess. we ate our mashed up in yuca. was rather tasty surprisingly.
people in tena seem to be more creative in their cat calls than in quito. less “hello” and more shit like “its a beautiful day for my eyes”..said in english.
that all for now, pretty slow life here. hope to start work soon, getting kinda bored.