From El Salvador

We have finished our build week, it was good and tough at the same time. My telephone lost power, otherwise I would have been able to post more pics from it while here... a big bummer, but I didn´t bring the charger. Kristin and I both got pretty sick, 38C fever for me and a day and a half off work, being miserable. Feeling okay now, we are heading to the beach with the rest of the team, most of them will fly home tomorrow. We are staying a few more days, and trying to hook up with a local guide to visit a coffee plantation and a few other interesting sites, maybe some Mayan ruins, etc...

Last night was very cool here, as the culmination of ´Semana Santa´or holy week, people decorated the streets with elaborate tableaus, made from sawdust, flowers, and sand. When Good Friday Mass finished at the Cathedral, a procession carrying a crucified Christ on a huge litter emerged into the streets, followed by several saints statues. They were all carried by 20 to 40 people, and there were thousands thronging the streets. They slowly proceeded through the streets, walking over the tableaus laid in their paths, destroying them as they went. The procession continued around the city until late in the night, and it seemed each church was doing it´s own procession, in its own route very interesting! One group came right below our hotel, and we watched them from the rooftop as they slowly moved in their candlelit procession.

Will be home soon, hopefully we will make some more good memories by then.