Mom and Dad's visit! Photos from hiking around El Carrizal, to my highly technical composting charla, to building a stove in Aaron´s site and dinner at Don Ismael, the school director's house. And our trip to the lovely Suchitoto!

More pics snatched from Am and Jay's collection!

Visitors!!

March was the month of visitors! Mom and Dad just left after spending a week in El Salvador, mostly at the lovely San Jose Carrizal. In the short time they were here, they watched the construction of a serious compost pit, hiked around my host fathers piñal (pineapple farm), visited half my neighbors, watched the construction of a cocina finlandia (fuel-efficient stove), took a short vacation in Suchitoto, talked global politics with my San Vicente family, visited a cooperative farm with a massive Talapia piscina, and were generally inundated with fresh fruits and veggies, mangoes, mamees, platanos, avacadoes and oranges; papaya and pineapples and countless hugs. All in all, a pretty amazing week.

Amanda and Jay were here just the week before. The first day they arrived we cargo-trucked it with my neighbor, Petrona and Fatima's family, to a oceanside water park for the day, and then dropped them at a beach resort. A few days later, I picked them up, took some surfing lessons and headed back to El Carrizal in time for the grande finale of the fiestas, an all night dance and a massive firework display. We then took off for my first week as a tourist here, to see the views from Puerto El Diablo, climb Volcan Izalco and snorkel the coral pools in Cobanos, a tiny beach town in the West.

Finally putting up pictures...and getting back to work!