Sun., Nov. 30 - Slept in til 8:30am, washed my clothes and then some ‘mantas’ for a couple hours, then had a nice relaxing Sunday, with the exception of the ‘bolo’ (drunk guy) who wandered into the yard and started talking to me. I sent Monice to go tell Gilma, who yelled at him to go [...]

Mon. Nov. 17 – Wed., Nov. 19 - Spent Monday and Tuesday evenings up at Ventura’s house, Monday reading through some papers that had come from the U.S. Embassy regarding their dad’s visa (not approved yet, after all). He’s been scheduled for an interview on Dec. 30, so there were all these complicated instructions (all in [...]

Sun., Nov. 9 - Niña Tomasa’s still not doing well. Is having a hard time controlling her bladder and needs help moving around, although she’s been spending almost all of her time in bed or in the hammock. She said yesterday she was dying, so I’m not sure if that means she just feels horrible or [...]

Wed., Oct. 22 - My “fairy godmother” seems to have lost interest. Not sure how much longer we would have been able to keep that up anyway Sun., Oct. 19 – Tue., Oct. 21 - Have spent Monday and Tuesday typing up ‘fichas’ (questionnaires) for the Patrimonio Cultural project. The goal was to be completely [...]

see links to “Isla Montecristo,” “Dia de los Difuntos,” and “Patrimonio Cultural” to the right       

Sun., Oct. 12 Decided to sleep in and flex my independence muscle by not leaving with Robyn and Tania at 6am. Had to ask people where to get off the bus and where to go once there, but I got to Parque Cuscatlán without incident. The Tin Marin Museum didn’t open until 10am, so I [...]

Tuesday, September 30 Got my absentee ballot via email this morning and Chepe just happened to be fixing the printer. So I got the ballot and the “security envelope template” and the mailing envelope template and the instructions all printed off, then spent a while perusing the “issues” sections of the candidates’ websites to help myself [...]

I just wanted to let my loyal readers (and people who happen upon my blog after a random Google search) know that I’ll no longer be publishing the entirety of my daily journal online, as it’s started to feel like quite a chore.  Instead of just disappearing from blog-world, however, I’ll try to go through [...]

I’ve added some new pictures in albums 5 and 6 and made albums for the Festival de Maiz and 15 de Septiembre (links to the right).