Day 4- Outdoors, Butterfly Mindo

So today definitely didn’t fail to surprise and thrill every single one of us. The day started off with a beautiful crisp light filling in the whole of our cabin! Those typical dreadful minutes when you know you have to get out of bed but yet wallowing in bed feels just so much better, were eased with the unique and exotic singing of the Ecuadorian birds. We were then greeted with probably the best breakfast of the trip yet. With a hardy meal sitting in our stomachs were went up to one of the main cabin’s sitting areas and talked in great depth about the photography language. Even though we have all heard the same things over and over, it still refreshes my mind as I reach closer and closer to the top of the photography field. Massimo, our wonderful professional leader, arriving straight from Italy, taught us about light metering and how to expose different lights in different ways, something that was never strong in my mind before. It was such a wonderful feeling to accomplish his lessons with beautiful satisfying pictures, when we ventured out later that morning. After nice lunch out, we all went to a butterfly sanctuary filled with all the butterflies you can get. We were able to put special butterfly food, basically banana, on our fingers which lured the beautiful butterflies our way! Some of us got the idea of putting it on our noses and letting the butterflies sit. This was a great place to seize our ambition for photography and grasp all the practice we could get. Our next stop only added to glory of such a day. We all went to the famous Mindo tubing rides and white water rafted all the way down the river. Mixed feelings definitely aroused from excitement to pure fright. One girl in our group Madeline, was absolutely terrified. I, on the other hand, thought it was so fun! We were all in a big cluster of connected tubes and bumped and bounced like no other. After a relaxing sit in the hot tub at our hostel, we ventured out to have probably the best dinner yet. As a whole, my 8 friends and I, ate at least a total of 40 pieces of pizza. We were hungry, and sure were ready for another round of jam-packed fun the following day.