New photos

New photos from the last few days are posted here! 

Feb. 28 Back home

Woke up and felt very alone, but luckily Bob and Elaine had a later flight than everyone else, so I had someone to eat breakfast with.  I hadn’t realized I was supposed to be out of my room at 7:30am, so Elaine helped me stuff my things into my bags, then we had breakfast and [...]

Feb. 27 La Palma

- Breakfast ~7:30, then walked around Suchitoto by myself for a bit – it seemed very safe but I was still a bit nervous b/c this is El Salvador after all, and a single gringo female with a big camera seems a bit foolish.  Basically walked in a big circle around the main square so [...]

Feb. 26 Suchitoto

- Got a pretty good night’s sleep, then got in the bathroom just before everyone.  Repacked my bags (we left the big bags in San Blas to be picked up later so we’d have more room in the van); had some breakfast of watermelon, banana, PB&J, and beer; did a crossword puzzle Mom had mailed [...]

Feb. 25 Beach in San Blas

- Today was a day of extremes – started off with breakfast at Flor’s (sister’s) house, where we talked some more about her personal experiences in the war, which included her brother being put in a giant hole in the ground for ~8 days w/o food or water or toilet.  She teared up several times, [...]

Feb. 24 Art Classes

Sun., Feb. 24, 2008
- Last day of art classes, this time we did have about 40 ppl. show up.  Donvieve and I tried to come up with some games to play and it took me quite some time to remember anything from the challenge course at Heifer (then we never had to use them).  Anabella [...]

Feb. 23 Art Classes

- Art classes in C. Romero today – Joalgar had a list of ~40 students he was expecting but only about 25 showed up (phew!).  Started out with Tracy and her double-layer painting project, then helped Donviev w/ her masks (I can trace and cut paperboard pretty well).
- Antonio invited me to go to Suchitoto [...]

Feb. 22 Art Classes

- Didn’t sleep well last night – actually pretty chilly at night
- Breakfast at Flor’s sister’s house, no one lost on way home
- More classes at Tierra Blanca, with an attempt at better organizing the groups, which of course dissolved over the course of the day.  Helped David with paper-making (rip up newspapers, put in [...]

Feb. 21 Art Classes

- woken up ~5:30am by the other ladies in my room, who were woken up by the roosters, etc.
- washed up, breakfast ~6:45 at Florinda’s house (with disabled son in hammock)
- off to Tierra Blanca ~8, where there were already a bunch of kids waiting.  Tried to separate them into groups for ceramics, masks, paper-making, [...]

Feb. 20

- Cat woke me up again, then slept til ~7:15, bit of a sore throat & very tired overall (el gripe?)
- to the office w/ Gilma, couldn’t sign on to any of the computer in the “ciber” so Nathan let me use his, then Arístides came in and said we needed to talk, as he [...]