Central Park on Parque Central San Vicente

... personalized the front windshield and his driving area with all sorts of posters, pictures of religious images and soccer banners. So we were off on our mighty adventure up into the highlands under the watchful eyes of Daffy Duck and the Virgin Mary.

A young guy stands at the door as the bus weaves through the crowded city shouting "Suchitoto" and he collects the fare which was a whopping seventy cents to go an hour and a half intercity. Yes ...

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From El Zonte we went to San Salvador to meet up with Curtis and Jessica Marston, who we had just met in Guatemala. But they were going to be working for the day so, we cruised the city for a bit checking out the incredible malls for hot chicks and eating icecream in as many places as possible for some reason (I have to say that we were somewhat disappointed with the ...

I never want to eat fast food again! In every 4 block radius there are two burger kings, a Wendy's, and a Pizza Hut. The view from our over-priced guest house includes all of the above and a subway. If you look very carefully through the smog, you can just make out the shape of a volcano, but that's just a speculative guess - it could just be a giant mound of trash. So what did we do in San Salvador?? Why, we embraced ...

... one in Central America!!!) and we got some groceries for the week. The YWAM base is different from the Cedeinfa, in that the base is more geared for the Discipleship training school and not so much for direct work in the communities - although that is done as well. The target group for this base is the local prostitutes and transvestites. They run a coffee house where people can go in to talk, and they hand out cookies and coffee to the ...

Into the town of San Vicente which was founded in 1635 by fifty local Spanish families. The original Tempisque tree under which the city was founded is still growing in the middle of one of the side roads. It used to have one of the finest squares in the country but it was devastated by the 2001 earthquake which seriously damaged the city's finest monuments and almost completely destroyed the Town Hall. Today there are only ...

... experience didn´t have as much of an effect on me as one would think it might, this was probably due to the fact that I´d already read a book that described the whole sordid affair in some detail, coupled with the fact that it is simply too hard to take in the idea that, twenty five years ago, hundreds of children and women were being mutilated and murdered on the very spot that you are standing. Either way I´m definitely glad I made the trip. So, not wanting to end this entry on such ...

The morning of the 29th we left the beach and 5 buses later we were in the mountains in a quaint little mountain town called Alegria. A long day on buses which means of course little food, but we are used to that by now. Settled into our smallest room yet, smaller than many closets (but then again I am used to sleeping in a closet!). Our room, meant for one ...

Hola, so far El Salvador has been great. I have now been here for almost two weeks and pretty much everything has been good. I did get a little case of the GI (gastronomical infection), but thats was/is to be expected, periodically. They just give you the ol´ kill everything pill, which actually makes you feel worse, then your good to go. I currently live with a host family in San isidro ...

Dear Ms. Hartline and class, My name is Armeda and I was in Ms. Hartline's class many years ago. I went to McKinleyville High and then attended Humboldt State University where I earned my bachelors in Cellular/Molecular Biology (basically I know a lot about cells). I had originally planned to go to medical school and later do humanitarian work (work to better the human condition) but decided my Junior year in college to go to graduate school. I moved to Texas to work on a PhD in ...