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El Salvador at La Tortuga Verde Resort (The Green Turtle Resort) volunteering to see our friend we met in Penang, Malaysia. She’s the Aussie girl we chilled with there and she now basically runs this hotel resort in El Salvador and she asked us to visit her while passing through. We got free accommodation, in return for volunteering for 4 hours a day, 6 days a week. The minimum on the website is you must volunteer for 4 weeks but we just did 1 week because were friends with Gabby. We barely worked 4 hours a day. Such a relaxed place, and no pressure to work. We mainly helped with pushing the boat in at the end of the day. Or help clear some plates when the restaurant got busy.
We were so lucky to arrive when we did, as the new baby turtles were ready to be released into the ocean. On the other hand, the Pelican that had a broken wing needed an operation to remove the broken wing. The hotel resort looks after rescued animals too, as part of Gabby’s conservation project. I helped set up the operating table outside with Gabby. Didn’t seem like a ligit operation by a legit Doctor but he managed to remove the wing. However the Pelican died shortly afterwards. The resort is ran by this rich American man from New York. He’s a nutter and owns a lot of property here in El Salvador and New York. He likes to be in El Salvador so he can have 8 girlfriends, he’s 67!
Went to this main city called San Miguel with Gabby because I needed to buy food and a phone. I have given up on IPhones now and I am currently using a Samsung for now. Funny story with my phone. I was walking around for a while, comparing the Samsung’s and the prices. The last shop we went into the price in the window and on the box of the phone was $270. But I looked down at this magazine with the price of my phone with $198. Gabby told them in Spanish and they said okay, and $198 is what they sold it me too. Bargain!
I did manage to do something and I painted Gabby’s room as there wasn’t much else to do other than gardening in the green house which is a complete hot box in 35 degree heat. One day, we did cook for all the staff, all 70 of them! Me, Kyle and Seb started from scratch. Cooked them vegetable bolognaise and I came up with a great idea to make spicy fried bread. So cheap and easy to do, but everyone loved it. Central Americans love fried and fatty foods, I barely see them eat fresh vegetables, hence why they are all fat.
I went surfing, chilled out a lot, as there wasn’t any wifi. Which was nice but also frustrating as I could of got things sorted and planned, whilst I was sitting around. Then unexpectingly I contracted this virus, the day before I was due to leave to Nicaragua, Leon on a 10 hour bus journey. Went doctors before our 12pm shuttle but he took ages to see me so we was running extremely late. Luckily the shuttle waited for us, but deep inside, I wish he hadn’t. I just wanted to sleep but I was stuck at the back, cramped, hot and couldn’t fall sleep. Plus I had to go through four boarder crossings. The shuttle went from El Salvador to Honduras then to Nicaragua. When we got to Honduras boarder, the driver told us to be very vigilant as its very dangerous. We heard stories that some shuttle buses were hijacked and everyone’s stuff was stolen. I made it though all okay.
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