Man I can’t believe it’s already a new year. It’s been an interesting one that’s for sure and I’m beginning a new one here in El Salvador – let’s see how it goes.
Anyways, as most or maybe all of you know I went home for Christmas for almost 2 weeks and it was wonderful. I was really nervous to go home cuz I thought it would be weird or that a lot of things might have changed since I had left but everything was perfect and not much had changed. Well nothing too horribly drastic at least. I had a wonderful time at home and was able to spend the majority of it with my family and my friends. My friend Karen, from Cincinnati came out to visit which was awesome, saw a lot of my cousins and the family. I would just like to say that I LOVE my family, even though they may be crazy and overwhelming at times, they are my family and I love them.
To say the least, it was very hard to return to El Salvador. All the small luxuries of home that I probably took for granted before but now it’s an awesome thing. Like a nice bathroom, a warm shower, movies, throwing your toilet paper in the toilet and not in a waste basket, good food, the internet at my hands at all times, a car, going to starbucks, going shopping. I mean I can do a lot of that here but it’s limited and even the bathrooms in the capital are nasty. Plus, it’s hard coming back to a place where you have no family and even you’re friends you’re not really sure if you can trust them 100%. But only god knows how I mustered the strength to get on the plane and come back here. I have to say that it wasn’t without tears.
The thing that helped was that I spend the 30th, my first day back, in the capital with my friend Alex. We went shopping and to the zoo and just hung out all day. That was awesome. And it helped a lot but I think made it harder going back to my site.
I arrived in the afternoon on the 31st and just dropped off my bags and went straight to my grandma’s house. I hung out there for a bit and visited with some other neighbors and friends and then went to attempt to start cleaning my extremely filthy house. It must have had about an inch of dust on every surface. Found some spiders and two bats had temporarily taken up residence in my house.
New Year’s Eve was pretty fun but I was really tired. It was nice because there were tons of people in the street all night, when normally the streets are deserted about 8pm. My friend Isamar put on some music outside and a bunch of people came to dance. I kind of wandered around house to house talking with friends and their families. It’s cool cuz everyone makes a lot of food and when you go to someone’s house they offer you a sandwich, food and or a drink. So that was nice.
All throughout the night fireworks are going off and at midnight everyone walks around giving each other New Years’ Hugs, which is cool, just NOT when weird people you hardly know come up to give you a hug, but I tried my best to keep that to a minimum.
On New Year’s Day everyone and their aunt goes to the beach so that’s what I did too. Went and just hung out a few hours and then came home to clean more of my house. I’ve been cleaning and rearranging for about four days now and I think I’m almost finished.
It has been crazy windy here and it’s really annoying because shit is always flying in my eyes. That and it is impossible to keep my house clean. If the doors and windows are open all this dust flies in and it covers everything. I even feel like I’m eating dust. And if you try to sweep the dust out of your house it all just blows right back in. The only good thing is is that you don’t feel the heat as much when it’s so windy. That I’m thankful for because without the wind it would still be 95 degrees.
Anyways, not much else going on so far other than hanging out with people. I need to figure out what I’m going to start working on. Next week I’ll have a meeting with my women’s group and maybe do something with the youth group.
Well, I hope you all had a wonderful new year’s. And all of your new years’ resolutions should be to come visit me. HAHAHA.
Adios
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