So, last few days in Mexico, and last blog entry from Central America! (sob.) We have achieved lots of hugely fun very touristy travellery things over the past two weeks, which has been a nice break from the emotional experience of San Salvador! After Lake Atitlan, we went to Antigua for a few days. It´s a lovely colonial town which was the capital until the 1700s when an earthquake ruined most of the city, which means it is littered with rather beautiful but ut...

Buenas Noches! Haven´t been able to do a blog entry for quite a while, mainly because my life has been absolutely super jam-packed. I can´t quite believe the project has finished. The last two weeks were incredible, we packed an awful lot in and we were all absolutely gutted to leave. On the two weekends we had in El Salvador we went first to Perquin, head of the guerilla camps FMLN headquarters and to a place nearby called El Mazote. Both amazing and educatio...

I have a new found respect for my teachers... So, I have survived the first week in the school back in San Salvador! The week started off in a fairly sad way - we went to the school to meet the children and see which classes we would be teaching, but whilst being shown around had info casually shared such as - "yes, that little girl who just said hello (she´s 6) was being abused for two years by her daddy" and "that 9 year old boy, his dad has di...

Hello! I´ve now been in Central America for just over a week, and we´ve returned to San Salvador, to meet Sister Cruz and visit the school where we start the project on Monday. We´ve spent the past week travelling down through Honduras, via San Miguel and Choluteca to Lyon, Guasuale, Granada, and finaly to Isla De Tempa, which is in the lake in the middle of Nicaragua! We chose to go by public bus which was quite an experience, although definitely worth it t...