The Morning Surprise!

Dear Everyone,

Hi everyone! This is Reese speaking. It has been a little while sense we talked. Now we have a friend amongst us. Her name is Jessica. The reason she is here is to help us like wash dishes, encourage us, and make us laugh.

One day, when we were heading to Puyo which is 15 min away we saw our friend Marco.
He is the Pastor of our small church. So OF COURSE we stopped and asked where he was going. He said he was going to Puyo like us and getting gusanos (which are beetle larva) in the feria. (The feria is like a market but in Ecuador.) And that was the exact place we were going! We asked why he needed the gusanos and he told us that his wife Alex is sick and her throat is really bad. Gusanos help heal the throat so he was going to buy some.

So we drove off with all of us in the same car. When we arrived we all walked together but Marco broke off of the troop and went worm hunting. My mom told me and my dad to go follow him so Dad and I set out. We couldn't find Marco. We only saw peeks of him so we went back to Mom, Jess, and Georgia. They were buying fruits and vegetables. Finally we crossed paths with Marco and started walking back to the car.

When we were driving down the road he brought out a worm. Its body didn't wriggle like the worms you have in your dirt. It's body sort of moved like a walrus! He told us you can eat them raw or cooked and the meat inside is supposed to help your throat. Then he hooked us up to eat some. But we asked if we could eat them cooked, and he said yes. So when we got back he cooked them up and put in some potato's and a salad. Then we cut them into bite size peices and started to chew. My mom said it tasted like penuts but in my opinion it tasted absolutely horrible.

Reese