I spent a lot of time at the internet coffee house, Shaws, today. Jason and I set up a website for Acascion de Barra de Santiago (www.barradesantiago.org). We still need to put together content, but buying the name and getting Oscar, a local university student, to send the server address was a lot of progress.
While sitting at the café, another Peace Corps (PC) volunteer, whose name I can’t remember sat down and we chatted for a bit. She was in San Sal getting her end of service medical check ups. One month before you go home the PC likes to get you healthy before you return. We went to the National Art Museum. As she presented her ID – a green Salvadorian foreign worker book – I took the opportunity to sneek a peak at her name, Barbara.
In the evening Steph Birdwell, a friend from Flagstaff, came to La Hastancia – the very economical hostel I’m staying in San Salvador - to pick up some friends at the airport. La Hastancia is populated almost exclusively by Peace Corps volunteers when they come to the capital, San Salvador. A dorm bed it $6/night with drinking water and coffee (or hot, black liquid that resembles the bean drink) in the morning. You can’t drink the water here, ever.
I’ve been using the single jet cold-water shower, but I discovered another bano off the courtyard with a water heater. I’m excited to try it tomorrow.
In the evening six of us went to a birthday party at the house of a shipping company’s CEO’s house. Juan Carlos went to school at a boarding school in Connecticut. That’s where he met his wife Ashley. It was Ashley’s party. She seemed happy to have so many Americans at the party.
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