First Day in El Salvador

I arrived in San Salvador and met up with John and Cathy Tucker from the Resurrection Church.  We also met with the 5 people that are from the Newman Center in Kent Ohio. This church has had a long standing association with the Padre and his mission.

We were met by some people that help the Padre and were taken to his home in San Salvador.  From there the plans were changed and we drove right away to Aqua Caliente arriving at about 8:00 Pm.

The trip takes about 3 hours and the road is ok until you get to about 10 miles from the town.  Then it is mostly dirt and full of holes.  He Padre himself drove this last stretch since he said he know where all of the holes are.

We arrived at the colegio and were greeted by 7 other people that that had come down from the Youngstown area.  They are staying for a week.  Had dinner there and viewed the school.  Even in the last year since I was there last there has been major changes. The most being the addition of a cafeteria and the new computer room that will be air conditioned. It looks great and will be ready for the first day of classes on 1 21 2013.  I will post some pictures soon.

The padre had a meeting with us telling us about the what is planned at the school and how it compares to the public school in this area.  Lots of problems there with absent students and even absent teachers.

The sleeping arrangements for the night was decided to have the 7 of us stay at 3 different houses.  This
was done with some confusion but at 11:00PM I as dead tired.  So I went to sleep with the roosters crowing and the dogs barking.  One has to get used to this while here.

Tomorrow we will meet at the school and staring the planning for  the 2 weeks of English lessons that  is the objective of this trip.  The others have done this before so for me this will be a learning experience in this area.  The plan is to have 100 of the 150 students from the school come for these classes to further there knowledge of of English.  It should be interesting.  Stay tuned.