el salvador pics

i seriously need to blog about my experiences, but it's getting late and it's so much easier to just load pics. so, here goes...

a view of the city from a park near the apartment

flor and i at the mouth of the volcano right outside san salvador

near the mouth of the volcano

la libertad...black sand beach. i think i like white sand better...

grilled seafood platter lunch. soooo good...

flor and i at suchitoto...

the national theatre in downtown san salvador. apparently just opened again after renovations and repairs from the last big earthquake (i think flor said that was over 10 years ago).

and last but not least, my team (part of...there are some people traveling) at the cdc! not an el salvador pic...

so yes, had some good times in el salvador, got to practice my spanish, ate tons, and made some good progress on the project. i'll be heading back there when they finish data collection...probably in september. next on the agenda...back to kenya this weekend for a month! will be staying with someone from ucsf also working on the project and....hana, my teammate from bali!!! so, so happy that it all worked out. i thought at first that i wasn't going to be in kenya when she headed over there for a research project (she's a phd candidate in clinical psychology...that's how we bonded...commiserating over how miserable grad school can be. that, and how miserable other aspects of our lives can be...'nuf said, but you know what i'm talking about. ;p)

anyways, while i was in el salvador, found out that they asked me back, the exact weeks that hana is going to be there, and we got into a 4-bedroom apartment at the place i stayed before, which is a 5 minute walk from where hana needs to be for her project! so...yaaay! and after coming back from kenya, i'll be in atlanta for less than a week before heading out to la!!! double yaaay!!!!

okay, wrote more than i planned. that's it for now...