La Playa

¡Hola Amigos!
This past weekend we all went to the beach (la playa) with the bacarios, although most of the bacarios had a scholarship meeting and couldn’t come. But one bacaria (Teresita) came and one of the Casa cooks came with her two daughters. We took a bus to Costa del Sol and stayed at a hotel area. The beach was great, but the first beach I went to was prettier. When we first pulled up to the beach we saw a monkey in a cage. A few of us went over to look at the monkey and we were feeding it grapes and bananas. The monkey seemed nice until it stuck its tail though the cage bars and started pulling Beth’s (one of the Casa students in my house) towel into the cage. As she reached to grab the towel the monkey stuck out its hand and ripped her sunglasses off her face and started jumping around the cage with the glasses in his tail. Beth was freaking out, but the rest of us found the whole situation quite funny. Eventually a person from the hotel came out and got the sunglasses back. The monkey incident was pretty much the highlight of the day. On the way home from the beach we stopped for coconuts. That was pretty exciting.

On Sunday a few of us went to mass at La Chacra (JT and Anne’s praxis site). We had to stand up in the middle of the homily and introduce ourselves then at the sign of peace I think the whole church came over to hug us. Salvadorians are very affectionate people. They love hugging, kissing, or just holding hands. This is kind of an invasion of my personal bubble, but I guess I’ll get used to it. After mass Padre Luís invited us to his home while we waited for our ride to pick us up.

Sunday afternoon was pretty quite. Half of the Casa students went to get piercings for Anthony’s birthday. Don’t worry, I hate needles and stayed home. I have no extra body art. I helped make avocado milkshakes for the birthday party. I have to say avocado milkshakes are an acquired taste. I didn’t acquire the taste.

Paz,
Stephanie
PS- A few pictures are uploaded. Hopefully I will have more uploaded soon. Enjoy!