We Finally have Arrived

After a very exhausting trip to get to El Salvador, we are finally here! All of us stayed up the whole night in the Chicago Airport playing some team building games and getting to know each other. It was a very fun time and we learned some strange things about each other. The last 2 flights to Houston and San Salvador seem like a dream, with all of us trying to catch a few winks on the flights.

Once we arrived we stopped at a local restaurant and tried some of the local favorites, pupusas. These are a rice flat bread thats lightly fried and topped with beans and cheese and condiments like hot sauce and pickled cabbage. It was very good. I had 3.... and I hope that doesn't come back to hurt me.

Our final teammate Kathleen made it in around 7 pm after some flight delays and then we went out to eat after a short orientation meeting. We went to another local restaurant that seemed to be comparable to KFC.

Tomorrow we get up at 6:30 for breakfast and head to the site by 7:15 to begin a full day of work. The work planned doesn't sound easy. It looks like we are building concrete block walls and doing cement work. Nothing like getting right into it.