Tuesday

My second day at El Arca!  I got in the groove today and spent the day peeling apples and potatoes for apple cobbler and cream of potato soup.  It will be a memorable day talking and working with the ladies in the kitchen: Marleni, Brigida, and Luz Mariana.  Marleni escorted us back home again, but this time we walked down the lane to catch a taxi and took lots of pictures!  Then, we rode a shuttle bus (like a city bus, only in small minivan-type vehicles) back to the hotel.  I think I’m getting the hang of it.

Our lodging and meals on this trip are especially great. . .not typical at all for a mission’s trip.  CERT International is taking good care of us!  I think I could get used to someone else making my dinner every night J.  It sure has been a nice break. 

Here are some more observations:

-Dogs, dogs of every kind everywhere!
-Crazy driving. . . like bumper cars without the bumping.
-Horns continually honking (mostly warning another vehicle or person they’re coming through)
-The smell of diesel combustion and exhaust
-No street signs and few speed limit signs
-Rompe muelles (speed bumps) on every street
-Clean Streets
-Taxis and buses are the way of life here.
-You will see modern middle class and poverty within the same block!