This past weekend, I went to a town called Guadalupe to build houses for those who lost their homes when IDA hit El Salvador. It was an awesome experience!! We, Peace Corps Volunteers, worked with an NGO “Un Techo para mi País.” This NGO mainly works in Latin American countries to build houses for people living [...]

It’s been exactly 3 months since the last post. It is not because I quit the Peace Corps but I was just being too lazy. I had a number of events during the last 3 months though!! After the disastrous week that I wrote about, I was sent back to my site for just a week. I [...]

As many people know, Hurricane Ida hit El Salvador recently. The city named Verapaz suffered greatly from the hurricane. Verapaz is located in the department (departments are equivalent of states in the U.S.) called San Vicente and that’s where we had our pre-service training 4 months ago. It rained like cats and dogs on Saturday, [...]

I was walking my neighborhood on last Sunday, looking for tarjetas de saldo (telephone cards) for my prepaid cell phone. A street dog came up to me (or more like started following me) barking at me so hard. I ignored and kept walking. It happened before too and I didn’t take it seriously. I mean, who [...]

I’ve been working with the school director to make some necessary documents for the school lately, and surprisingly I’ve been pretty busy! I didn’t know I can be busy here in El Salvador because it seems like everything is slow here. Especially coming from busy Tokyo and busy life as a grad student, I felt [...]

Yay, my actual first post! So I went to Playa El Espino yesterday with my friends. This is the second time I went to beach in El Salvador (first time being Playa El Tunco). On our way to beach, we took a bus and when I got off, I wrenched my right knee. It’s my bad knee. [...]