Wednesday, March 23, 2011

March 20: Plan B

Up and at it 3:30am today.

We left our current home, yet again, to set out for a new adventure in a new Country. Our destination: El Salvador. Our means of travel: the oh so comfy Ticabus!

Prepared this time with snacks and toilet paper, the ride seemed shorter and less draining even with two boarder crossings and four checkpoints.

There was no getting off the bus and lining up like school children to have strange men with guns feel through all our personal belongings. We just simply passed over our passports and across the boarders we went.

Entertainment for the bus ride: Movies.

The movies: The Mechanic (again!), Gifted Hands (so good!), and some horrible Tom Cruise movie (almost awkward to watch…so bad!)

Around 4:00pm we rolled in only to find out that we were supposed to get off the bus in San Migual where our host families were waiting excitedly to greet us and then take us to their homes for a big dinner. San Minuel is about 3 hours back in the direction we came!

How did this happen? We still don’t know. What we do know is that our host families watched from their cars as the bus passed by our pick up location and then proceeded to chase the bus down. This only caused the driver to speed up because he thought the chasing vehicles were up to no good!

Once off the bus in Sans Salvador, we waited about 20 minutes before being greeted with our “plan B” host families. We were greeted with warm smiles and hugs despite the inconveniences we had caused them. In no time we were being whisked away to one of the Rotarian’s homes for drinks and dinner. By 8:00pm, we were taken to our back up host families for the night.
View from the backyard!

Three weeks in before any of us dropped the ball, I’d say that’s pretty good!

Finally a blog,

KT

1 comment:

  1. Hey Alicia! Looks like you are having a great time and wonderful experience. Those beautiful kids seem to be taken by you as you by them. Can't wait to hear about your trip when you get home. Take Care!
    Kim

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