 | Leaving Lima amidst mask mayhem...
2009-04-29, San Salvador, El Salvador. By: Fidgi | | I’m typing up today’s entry in San Salvador International Airport, where I’ve had a 4 hour stop-over en route from Lima to San Fransisco. Part of me is reminiscing happily about the lovely time I had... |
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 | More Salvadorean stories
2008-12-29, San Salvador, El Salvador. By: fidgi | | There’s a lot for me to catch up in terms of writing about these past few days… Since my last entry there’s been my Christmas dinner here, a day at someone’s beach house on the Pacific shores of La L... |
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 | A Christmas message from San Salvador!
2008-12-25, San Salvador, El Salvador. By: fidgi | | Feliz Navidad everyone! I know I promised some of you a seasonal message to rival Her Maj’s so here it is, coming to you live all the way from El Salvador! I’ll probably have to keep it quite brief,... |
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 | 2008 Workshop Ends in Rousing Success!
2008-12-12, San Salvador, El Salvador. By: ffdrh | | Dear Friends,
Thank you for not giving up on this travel journal and me! The last week went by in such a whirl that I haven't made time to write. I also forgot to take pictures so had to wait for... |
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 | Fantastic Trip North in Morazán
2008-12-07, San Salvador, El Salvador. By: ffdrh | | Hello, again,
It's Sun. night, and the team just returned from a fantastic overnight trip north to the Honduran border. On Sat. morning, we headed north on the Ruta de la Paz with our van and drive... |
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 | 2nd Week of Workshop Wraps Up at UNIVO in San Miguel
2008-12-05, San Salvador, El Salvador. By: ffdrh | | Hello, Friends,
The best news about our 2nd week of the workshop is that our room is bursting at the seams! We have 15 public school teachers, 6 private school teachers, and 6 English language stu... |
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 | Wish You Were Here!!
2008-11-30, San Salvador, El Salvador. By: ffdrh | | Welcome back, Friends,
Our first weekend around San Miguel was jam-packed and very interesting. We went Saturday morning to Guatajiagua, the pueblo of UNIVO's Coordinador de Proyección Social, Lic... |
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 | Workshop Underway in San Miguel
2008-11-27, San Salvador, El Salvador. By: ffdrh | | Hello, Friends,
The San Miguel team has been very pleased with the dedication and participation of the teachers who are coming daily for the TEACHER-TO-TEACHER workshop. Some of them ride a bus mo... |
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 | The End
2007-12-16, San Salvador, El Salvador. By: ffdrh | | Dear Family and Friends,
Our team made it safely back to San Salvador on Saturday. The whirlwind continued as I met with a group of teachers from previous years, and later met with our Salvadoran ... |
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| The End of the First Week!
2007-11-30, San Salvador, El Salvador. By: ffdrh | | #5
The end of the first week!
What an interesting group of volunteers, and an interesting group of teachers! I’m enjoying the personal contact with all of them, and trying to keep the rough edges... |
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| D-Day at UNIVO
2007-11-26, San Salvador, El Salvador. By: ffdrh | | #4
I didn’t need to worry about San Miguel! The Salvadoran coordinator picked us up in San Salvador and brought us to San Miguel (2 1/2 hours each way,) arranged good hotel accommodations, helped ... |
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| Ready-Set-Go?
2007-11-24, San Salvador, El Salvador. By: ffdrh | | #3 Ready-Set-Go?
We enjoyed a visit to a “summer camp” on Thurs. This is a program that teaches English to “jovenes talentos” (gifted kids) and is funded by the American Embassy. The HS aged stud... |
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 | Beautiful Guatamala
2007-11-22, San Salvador, El Salvador. By: ffdrh | | #2
Time out for an ADVENTURE – Saturday 11/17 my friend Dianne and I went with some Salvadoran friends by bus to Guatamala, returning Wednesday 11/21. The country is rugged and beautiful – a combina... |
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| Daphne Arrives in El Salvador
2007-11-15, San Salvador, El Salvador. By: ffdrh | | Dear Family and Friends,
My co-director and I are safe and sound at the Villa Serena Hotel in San Salvador. We had delays out of SEA and LAX, but with long layovers anyway, they were no problem. ... |
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 | white and fluffy
2007-08-17, san salvador, El Salvador. By: vorn | | copan was pleasant but there was not a hell of a lot to see in a 6k person town so we just relaxed in our pretty cool hostel and recovered from our sardine shuttle.
off to the ruins the next day w... |
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 | The Tika bus station... Help!!!!
2004-07-06, San Salvador, El Salvador. By: spadilla03 | | Tuesday July 6th 2004
This morning we woke up in managua. It was going to be a long day becuase we were headed back to Guatemala, or at least starting our journey back. Today we were only going t... |
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