April 23, 2006

So, its been almost a week in El Salvador. I moved to my site on Friday in a town called Suchitoto about an hour outside of the capital, San Salvador. I will be living with three other volunteers when they get here next week. Its extremely hot here, but I´m doing okay with it, just can´t think straight quite yet. My house is old colonial with a garden in the back with banana and cashew trees and some flowers...nice and peaceful with lots of birds and iguanas (and of course lots of bugs, too!) I´ll be working with an NGO called REDES that was started in ´89 so they were around during the war. I get a good sense from the people that I´ll be working with, and both the town and the organization are progressive---a far cry from my experience in Uzbekistan! I haven´t been out exploring the area yet, as its just been too hot, but I´ll be here for 6 months...I have time.

Nothing too exciting has happened, but I look at that as a good thing. If there is one thing that I learned from Peace Corps, building relationships is alot of what this work is about.