Monday, April 21 and Tuesday, April 22

Tuesday, April 22, 2008
- Took my laptop into the office today and got it hooked up (finding the printer via the network took some Chepe-magic), then didn’t really have much work to do on it. Balbino and I went to go see what prices three nearby stores were charging for the products we sell – [...]

More pictures

Here.

Monday, April 14 through Sunday, April 20

Sunday, April 20, 2008
- Hot.  Need to get Mom and Dad to mail down my little thermometer thing so I can actually describe this in numbers.
- Slept in til 7:30am, took a nice long time washing up and getting dressed, washed a big load of clothes, stripped and flipped my mattress, went to mass with [...]

Pictures

Posted a few new photos here.  Also discovered the video function on my camera and uploaded a few videos to my Facebook page, although it appears you have to have a Facebook account of your own to view those.   

Saturday, April 12 and Sunday, April 13

Saturday, April 12, 2008
- Went to a celebration of the 13th anniversary of the “Fondo de Emergencia de Salud” (emergency health fund) in Tierra Blanca this morning.  As I understand it, they collect $0.25 a month from about 2,000 families (as well as some international financial support, I believe) and offer a whole host of [...]

Sunday, April 6 through Friday, April 11

Sunday, April 6, 2008
- Went to mass (took communion), lunch (including “chao ming”), long nap in hammock, baby shower for Elena (Bible study, silly games, gifts, giant sandwich, cake), shower, Gilma gave me a shirt (too big for her, a little on the tight side for me), read some Reservation Blues, short phone call from [...]

New Photos

Added some more photos here.  Am trying to figure out why they look normal on my computer and then come out very dark when I upload them – if anyone can tell me how to fix that I would greatly appreciate it…

Saturday, April 5

- Got up around 7:45 to go to the bathroom, then went back to bed til 8:30.  As everyone else had been up since about 5am, Tomasa was concerned that I was sick.  We’ll see if my body changes to fit the Salvadoran schedule, but for right now I don’t have any plans to give [...]

Friday, April 4

- Actually slept all the way through the night, so was feeling pretty good in the morning, only to have Rosi tell me that Oso (the dog) had been killed by a car earlier in the morning.  I’d just spent a while last night scratching him and had even entertained the idea (admittedly not a [...]

Thursday, April 3

- A nice steady rain had started falling by the time I went to bed last night, which made a nice natural lullaby.  But for some reason I just wasn’t tired, and as I lay there awake the rain died off and then came back with a vengeance.  I’m used to torrential downpours lasting for [...]