Speaking Spanish
Making purchases by the quarter
Yucca Frita
Pupusas
Cooking with wood fire
Washing my clothes by hand
Hammock Naps
Weekend Travel
Alfajores
Latin music
The Gallardos and the Alvarados
Kids camps
Being really excited about going to a real supermarket, especially if there is Peanut butter to be bought
Comparing notes with fellow PCVs on Sulfur burps, fevers, bug bites, and stomach gurgles
Making cowboy coffee out of strong, local, powder-ground coffee
Letting my hair go wild with the humidity
Hard, Paste dishsoap
Mosquito nets
Regular door to door fruit/veg/icecream/lightbulb/hammock/bread salespeople
Eating with my hands
Walking through markets
Glaring at piropo making bichos
Being disconnected from the outside world
Not tipping
Greeting people on the streets as I pass
Open-air road travel
Using the "my phone has no minutes" excuse for why you never called that fulan@ back
Playing the "como se diceeee...." game
Bucket baths
Frijoles in any possible manner
Teaching kids new things
The slow life
Conserva de coco on the 259 bus route
Pretending to not speak spanish
Shameless bilingual gossiping
My Best friend, Milena
Being able to use my lowly bachelors degree before my name. Soy, Licenciada Yessica Hid-le-so
Youth Groups
Frilly Aprons
Fresh eggs
Seeing kids in their school uniforms, pressed and polished
Jocotes
Balancing things on my head
Comedors
Neighbors' tiendas
Salva Cola
Making Shampoo
Kick Ass women
Encountering english phrase shirts that just don't work right.
Adorable brown babies in cloth diapers and sapitos
Monkey screaming after a good laugh, or when it's time for recess
Buying DVDs for a dollar
Sunshine
Being recognized with a smile at Cafe d Cafe, Sisimiles, the recarga stand at the Sonso terminal, the Especial to El Poy, Don M, La Teja, etc...
The 30b route through San Salvador
Dinner at Miriam's house, every Sunday
Feeling like this country and this experience have made me into a complete, powerful person. There's nothing I can't do after succeeding at this.
Photo Evidence.
Pupusas de El Cocalito
Horses and Muchachos
Not the best misplaced shirt I've seen, but she works it
Some of my Como planear mi vida girls on our field trip
Cute baby in a gown an cowboy hat? Adorable.
One of the many, many views of beautiful volcanoes in this pais
Pinatas. I Fear and love them.
My Como Planear mi Vida boys at school in their uniformes
This baby chick was tossed into a well by Brian. Bien tremendo
Two things I love. La cena cooked over an open flame and Milena
El Zarzal kids going down mainstreet
On a Field Day with Pati and her friend at Cerro Verde
Ooi! Dulces!
Escuela Americana camp at Lago Coutepeque
Me, getting the tour of terrain from this guy.
Meeting the (hopefully permanent) American Ms. Ambassador of El Sal
My Favorite coffee cups
My Girls, in our Tie Dye
Goobers.
My Women's group at my house in El Cocalito, gossiping.
Our shampoo operation
My Gallardo Girls at La Barra de Santiago this Christmas
I Love Leafcutter Ants, and we share a love for Mandarine Oranges
S'more making 101.
Laundry day in El Cocalito
Ugh, marching bands...
Baile! I love when they keep it tipico.
What's the Lunch Special? Gallina india, pues.
My comadre and I at Christmas
$2.50 for Panama's freshest, tastiest ceviche.
Thanks defective, right ovary and subsequent medical evacuation!
80's theme party, Perquin, Morazan
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