Alicante Hotel San Salvador

Day One - Wow, we worked hard today but we also had lots of fun!!! Our motto has become - work hard, laugh hard and play with the kids. Some of the work we did was sift sand - lots of sand. We also dug dirt, moved dirt, moved some more dirt, moved even more dirt and then we eventually stamped dirt. We also cut down brush with machettes - we decided to call the machettes "corn knives." <br><br>We have a challenge each day. We are to ...

... in 28 years that they´ve qualified, which lead to a huge post-game party in the stands to celebrate. <br><br>Did I say there would be a break from soccer talk? Hmmm... only until next month, when Costa Rica takes on Uruguay to fight for the last spot!<br><br>In other news, I saw a hummingbird! It was quite exciting, and also rather unexpected for such a big city. <br>

... been here! It felt really good! My arms are still really swore, but my family was impressed that I, the gringa, could double corn...I was a little shocked myself. :) We left our house at 5 in the morning to get out to the field by 6, so we would be done by noon! We had 23 people working, and we finished at 11:39am! 46 hands, and it still took almost 6 hours. After stopping at the neighbors for "atol," which is basically a "corn shake," we came back home ...

... child and took their temperature before they saw the doctor. After that, I was assigned to make invitations for a meeting taking place on Wednesday morning on water contamination. This is a very important meeting; the clinic recently did fecal tests on a random sample of kids from Las Delicias, and found that 80% of them had parasites. Approximately 60% of them had 3 or more parasites. We are going to teach the women who come to the meeting about how to use the water ...

... pretty dangerous. I read somewhere that 27 buses a day in the city get boarded by men with guns and they rob the entire bus, sometimes killing the drivers or passangers. Seen plenty of photos in the papers of bodies being pulled out of the old chicken buses, the only way to travel!<br>I got into San Salvador late at night, apparently another dangerous city! But I had the address of a couple from CSing I would be staying with, so I proceeded to get a taxi there. To cut a ...

Well Tracy and I finally made it to San Salvador. We never expected much from El Salvador, but so far its been our favorite country. We thought we'd be in and out in a few days but we've extended our stay a bit longer. The same goes for the capital, San Salvador. We imagined it as being and industrial and scary city and didnt expect to stay more than a night just to catch a bus out of the country. Man were we ever wrong. San Salvador is such a vibrant and lively city. The people here ...

... church. Just before I had arrived in Juayua the town had the annual celebration of the Cristo Negro. The church is really light and spacious inside, a very different feeling from many of the other churches I've visited. The walls are lined with stained glass windows - the first I've seen. The local market is located on the streets east ...

... asi que mejor decidimos buscar hotel y guardarnos de los villanos antes de ke anocheciera. Buscando buscando, como todas las anteriores 45 noches que hemos estado en nuestra travesia un hotel bueno bonito y barato y aademas con estacionamiento para Pathy...es cuando nuestro trabajo comienza, y puedo decir ke la mayoria de las veces el ir a preguntar me toca a mi, porque seguro corremos el riesgo de que ...

... some things to chew on while riding the nearly immaculate tarmac...the coast roads in El Salvador are awesome for carving! No hidden potholes or decreasing radius turns...just pure fun, I felt like a Top Gun fighter pilot...I radioed back to Goose (Malin) to keep her eyes peeled for any bogies as I twisted the grip on Jesus Christ Superstar (the bike, a bit blasphemous, so we'll only use this term while we're in "The Savior") We only had one night ...

Here I learn a lesson that was to stay with me all my life- carry on baggage. I was taking a flight to San Salvador instead of Guat City because it was cheaper, and San Salvador was close. Well it turns out that that flight stops in Guat City on the way, and I'm sitting there looking at the airport and wishing I could just hop off ...