Estoy aqui´!!!!!!!

Finally, I arrived in Honduras on Tuesday.  I spent four days in El Salvador before coming to Honduras.  El Salvador was wonderful.  The first three nights I stayed at a retreat center run my Sisters in the hills an hour from San Salvador.  It was beautiful at the center.  The grounds are a garnden with a farm going down the side of the hill.  They grow coffee, oranges, avacados and many other fruits.

On the third night, I went with the Sisters to visit a delightful family which lives a few minutes away.  They invited us for a dinner of papusas - a traditional El Salvadorian tortilla filled with beans and cheese or other delicious fillings -  and hot chocolate spiced with cinnimon.  It was delicious!

The family was very jovial ' A husband and wife who are newly married and their parents and one aunt.  They live together in a beautiful home decorated with columns and cement work wich the grandfather has done and takes great pride in.  The grandmother, who sings beautifully, enjoys games.  So she taught us a song - Quien sera´- in spanish of course.  Then she asked each of us to sing it.  I was the second and sang it as poorly as you can imagine.  But the beautiful thing is the quality didn´t matter, only that i tried.  We all laughed heartily.  Then one of the sisters sang.  She sang the first verse, then the chorus, then in the same tune changes the words.  She sang that she did not want to sing more, but that someone else should sing.  The others began responding in the same tune that they did not want to sing and joking with each other.  This ended in much laughter.  Finally, the young bride sang a farewell song which rhymed well to one of the Sisters who is leaving next week for Argintina.  It was beautiful and moving.

So I left El Salvador for Honduras excited to arrive and sad to leave behind my lovely new friends!!