It’s community clean up day in El B. Henry and Javier from Gaia Salvador come up from San Salvador to run the day with Shannon. I’m assigned the river and forest with the young people. I’m eager to pluck trash from the river I’d enjoyed yesterday. I imagined coming there in a couple of years and finding it pristine. The downside of cleaning the river is all our trash is wet, heavy and juicy. The upside is that it doesn’t stink. I returned very dirty, the river a little cleaner, no new injuries, mounds of trash collected and 147 participants (in a town of 130 families). That’s amazing participation.
The rest of the day we relaxed and talked with the Gaia guys. I had emailed with Javier about working with Gaia earlier. He was happy I was able to see one of the towns they worked in. He invited me to come back sometime. Yes, a contact!
I broke put the slack line and taught Henry and Javier how to slack. Henry said you couldn’t get any of that stuff in El Sal. - hmmm business opportunity? Later we set up the slack line near the best concha (soccer field) in El Sal. It is grass, mowed and has lines. Curious kids soon came over and were doing tricks on the line.
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