Our first full day in El Salvador. The entire team had now arrived at the Mariscal Hotel in San Salvador. We had breakfast at the hotel and then met for a team meeting with Patty Cordero. We packed up the bus with all our luggage and were taken to the Market in San Salvador as well as the Cathedral where the Archbishop Oscar Romero was buried. We then went to San Vicente to the hotel where we would be staying for the week. After lunch we met the San Vicente Habitat for Humanity staff as well as the mayor. After our orientation we were taken to 2 places where the devastating floods and mudslides of November 8 did an incredible amount of damage. Hundreds of lives were lost, hundres of homes were washed away and many people still have not been found. We were all speechless at the magnitude of the damage. One local resident was able to describe much of the disaster through our translator Johnny. After a quick stop at the grocery (store complete with armed guards) we returned to the hotel for dinner. Johnny then took us for a walk through town before returning to our hotel for the 9 pm curfew.
Jane
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