Radisson Plaza El Salvador San Salvador

Once again, I have to apologize for how long it has been since a past entry! Life has been both uneventful and overly eventful all at once!

I have been doing the usual stuff...just working at Casa Esperanza during the day. I started teaching English, too! I'm not sure if I've mentioned that yet, but I teach on Mondays and Thursdays and I teach kindergarten through 6th grade. It has been very very challenging to teach them. It is the same ...

First off I just have to say that I'm sorry I've been incomunicado! But last week we didn't do anything, and this week has been crazy busy! I don't have too much time to write right now, but this is something I wrote up for my church newsletter, and since it's a description of what I do everyday, I thought maybe you would like to know too!

As the bathroom light goes on, the closet doors open, and the ironing begins, I roll out of bed to join my ...

... group from Germany!

On the 7th we left for Antigua, Guatemala where we all releaxed and had a retreat to plan out how to best continue the ministry projects we have started and want to expand! I love this part of the trip because it's basically making a blue print of how to help the people we've met! I love it!

So, after three days in Guatemala, and after not doing much of anything except shopping, I came back to El Salvador last night! As soon as I ...

Hi Again!

Today was another fun packed day. I am very tired so I'm not going to write alot. But i will tell you the exciting parts of my day!

Today Jamie, Maddie and I went around with the nurse to do some home visits. We visited families that were very very poor. We gave them mosquito netting for there little boys or girls. The kids were ...

... every day and was semi-succesful, but just being out there was one of the best feelings in the world for me. Also, the food was cheap and pretty good. We especially enjoyed the "papusas". A local dish, well worth the 20 minute wait in the steamy hot floor-less restaurant with random pollos and perros running around. So, our El Salvador vaca came to an end and we headed back to Antigua on Wednesday afternoon so we could catch our flight ...

... to back, the conductor kept soliciting more people to get on! They actually go into the crowds looking for more people. And sometimes I swear that they convince people to go places they didn't intend to go! It's a hard sell! I was on that bus for about an hour and got off at the intersection of the highway to La Palma where my next bus awaited me. One guy unloaded my pack and passed it to the guy on the next bus who ...

... tell. Spent just over a week here and hung out, wandered round, went to the beach (finally got rid of my surfboard), tie-dyed cushion covers, celebrated my birthday with a Mexican meal (20th November was the start of the Mexican Revolution), and had a fun housewarming party with 'Las Locas' and their friends.

... The ones that I have been taught since I was a child are dirty and dangerous.. This is my job and my research right now. I have memorized the major pre-colonial civilizations, so I guess that is a step. Haha. I am determined to go back home with a better handle on Spanish as well, so I will look up "desarrollo" tonight in the dictionary, because I forgot what it means. I have noticed that the mountain climate really ...

... Eric to visit El Salvador and settle the dispute for us. San Salvador has a significant American influence from all the guest workers in the US who have returned to El Salvador. (On the map to our hotel was a landmark for "Texaco". At first, Ray thought this was yet another Mayan/Aztec word that he couldn´t pronounce. Then he saw the signs for Wendy´s, Burger King, and Tony Roma´s.) We quickly headed out of San Salvador to Las Rutas ...