Barillas Marina Club San Salvador

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San Salvador. "A country famous for ; Guns, Guerillas, and Surfing" We jumped off the bus and the first thing you notice is that everyone has a gun. The guy outside the bank had a pump action shotgun, the guy outside the toy shop had a revolver and even citizens wander around quite happily with a handgun strapped between their waste and their balls. You can get everything you want over the counter of your local supermarket or gun store. But this was the capital city ...

... and a little boy as they played together on the teeter-totter and we saw Dennis playing frisbee with the kids in the street. The most humbling place we saw Jesus was when two 70ish aged women joined us on the build site. Their families will be recipients of two of the homes we are working on. They worked alongside us as we moved dirt. They picked up bucket loads of dirt and hauled it in to their future home for the floor we stamped ...

... after dark. I had originally planned to stay on the bus into the city centre and stay in one of the hotels around there but after the majority of the bus including every foreigner got off in San Benito on the outskirts of the city, I thought it best to re-evaluate my plans. After talking to the bus driver who advised me to stay in San Benito, I quickly grabbed my stuff and hot-tailed it off the bus. Fortunately the only hotel around the bus stop wasn't too bad and ...

... too :( ... In front of the nurse as well as all of the high school kids who were watching me. Slightly embarrassing. However... good learning experience; I don't think I would ever have the chance to do such hands-on work if I had not signed up for this trip!!

-Also this afternoon I did two more postpartum visits. One of them was with a woman who had a C-section 7 days ago. I was put in charge of cleaning the C-section wound and also shadowing ...

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Above all the local type music, a stand selling pirated CDs definitely caught my attention. Against the mix of dozens of different boomboxes playing mariachi type music blasting at me from all corners, I made out foul language in English. The vulgarity drew me right in and I crossed the street to bask in it. Yes, this merchant was playing some sort of rap music that was extolling the virtues of being an ¨N¨ word from the hood and how that entitles you to ...

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And like I always contest, I have never woken up colder any where else than in El Salvador! The air is always cranked for me, which I appreciate, I just think it's funny...who'd have thought, you know? I also contest that the showers I take here are the best in my entire life, and I was not let down today! Just blouses!

The kids have all been really sick! I've been assurred that it's not H1N1, and I haven't gotten sick yet, so that's a good ...

... international day for labour and workers. Now, being in Central America, **** gets crazy on days like that. So the plan was to visit Suchitoto for a day and be back Thursday night so I could be up early on Friday. Earlier in the week I´d seen posters for different marches, most interesting being the one for an anarchist black bloc. And the day certainly delivered. I headed to the university (safe bet for an interesting May Day) and, after a bit of confusion ...

... nights enjoying the ambiance. My room was impeccably decorated and included this nice touch: an original sink (in addition to the modern one) with a copper bird faucet. The restaurant offered a beautiful view of Lago Suchitlan. This is actually a reservoir that was built to provide hydro power. My first night there I ordered a steak and it was really good: tender ...

... 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.

... de La Noche, was playing at the mall near the Fast-Food-strip, so I decided to give my brain a break and see it in English.. of course, I have to read the Spanish subtitles. I have learned some helpful phrases this way. Today, I went to the Anthropology museum and...saw another movie...the new X-Files. Hey, for one movie back home, I can see two movies AND have popcorn and a medium soda. I will confess, I am still ...