El Salvador Day #2

Day #2 Friday, January 4, 2013

Here we go! After a few hiccups, like having to wake up one of the students and having to show the bus driver how to get to the airport, we finally got to the airport, got through smoothly and landed in El Salvador. Brian, the missionary that we will be working with the whole trip, met us at the airport with a tricked out school bus for us to ride to Ahuachapán. We stopped a little ways outside of the city to eat some pupusas for lunch. Pupusas are a traditional El Salvadoran food. They are corn or rice tortillas made with any variety of meats and vegetables inside. I got a corn tortilla with cheese and pork and a rice tortilla with cheese and shrimp and they were both delicious! Then we got back on the bus and drove a couple of hours to the mission house. Got settled in, met the people that lived there, ate a delicious dinner of chicken, vegetables, rice, and bread, and then conked out! We were all exhausted and went to bed fairly quickly. Some initial thoughts from El Salvador: landscape and culture seem similar to Honduras and Costa Rica so far except that there are a lot of volcanoes here. But the traffic just as bad! I am excited and hopeful for the opportunities that we are going to have over these next few weeks to be immersed into this culture!