New Adventures!

The connection is a little slow here and it is getting late, so I am about to go to bed. It has been a full 2 days here, but I've been pretty relaxed since no one is ever in a rush here. :) Javier and Sandra are friends who are staying with me. Sandra helped me clean the kitchen thoroughly on Thursday. No one has been in the house for quite a while and the bugs and spiders decided to move in and make their homes in the dishes and cabinets. I was surprised that we didn't find any live scorpions while we were cleaning, but I guess that's a good thing too! The ants tried to take over the house, but I think Sandra and I were successful at stopping them. The ants here sting. I have red welts all over my feet right now! While cleaning, I tried to explain to Sandra what a vacuum cleaner is. She seemed amazed at the concept, but I guess when you have dirt floors, what do you need a vacuum for?

I went to prayer meeting at Omar's house today. His house is way in the mountains; it's absolutely beautiful! I love the walk to his house, but I had to have Sandra walk with me so I wouldn't get lost! We stopped at her house on the way up and I met her mother and on the way back I met her father. He is going to be 90 years old on the 13th of this month! He was sitting in his chair on his dirt floor in his dirt half dirt/half brick house, whittling away at a piece of wood, very sweet man.

Sandra showed me how to make rice and beans salvadoran style and today her mother killed a pig, so she brought me over some pork. :) Sandra will be cooking for the children when we get started on Monday. I had a couple of suprised Salvadorans in my house on Thursday morning. They were shocked that I could make tortillas. Sandra has been very sweet though and she will bring me some from her house after she makes them in the morning. She makes them on the wood stove and they taste better that way. :)

I discovered today that you have to rinse the bugs out of the rice before you cook it. :) I was a little suprised to see little red bugs crawling around in the rice when I opened the bag! Protein, right? ;)

I don't have any good pictures right now. I'll post some later. For now, I'm going to go sleep to sound of the rain on the tin roof. :)