Greetings from El Salvador!

Greetings everyone!

We have arrived safely in San Salvador and are enjoying being back in Jorge´s home turf, and I am enjoying getting to know my new mother in law. The weather here is between 80 ad 90 degrees during the day, but it cools to 70 at night. We are staying at the Lutheran mission worker´s house and traveling around to other friends and family during the days. Tomorrow we will go to the Jesuit University where Jorge studied and look up some friends there, then hope to get into the Romero memorial later on.

Things are relatively calm ahead of this weekend´s presidential elections. We will be volunteering at the agency coordinating elections observers that day on a variety of tasks. Looking forward to a positive outcome then. Next week after all the excitement here, we´ll head back towards Guatemala and visit Jorge´s friends from the Dominicans.

One difficulty we are having is that the airline has cancelled half its flight schedule, so we will be mildly stranded until the weekend a few days after we planned to return. It´s lovely here, so we certainly don´t feel ´´stuck´´ here, but I have been taking classes in history and polity of the United Church of Christ for our upcoming work at St. John´s, and we will miss one of the weekend intensives.

There´s not a lot of internet access here, but we´ll write again if we get the chance. Peace to you, and see you when we return!

Le Anne y Jorge