Bus riding for the day:
Today was a long day, but thankfully we made it through without any problems. Originally we were only going to have Eva for our guide but she contacted her uncle Fernando and he came along with us too. At the start of the bus from Ahuachapan to Santa Ana, a guy got on and put a pack of candy in everyone’s hands. The pack said “gift” in English but I wasn’t really hungry so I just held on to it. After about 5 minutes the man gave his sells pitch and said that the candy cost $$ and then went back and took the candy back from everyone unless they paid. I thought it was a very tricky sells tactic. Throughout our journey several sales people got on the bus yelling out information about their products trying to get people to buy. At the mall I bought a clock and we looked through the furniture store at the bunk beds then Della said she had to eat something. So at 11:00 we went to the food court and I ordered Pizza Hut for everyone. Fernando said it was way too early for him to eat so he just watched us. During lunch we told Fernando how we were looking for a truck and he said he knew of some places nearby we could go look. After lunch we walked out of the mall and down the street and hid behind trees while Fernando went and talked to used car lot salesmen. All that they had was either at the end of its life or way out of our budget. Then we went to a huge store that sold “everything” and I bought a new sink fixture that would enable the filter to be hooked up in the kitchen instead of the bathroom. At 1:45 Fernando got hungry so we went back to the mall and we got ice cream while he ate lunch. After lunch we took buses 5 and 4 back to Ahuachapan. There we bought all the groceries that Della, Lucky and I could carry and then took bus 3 to get back to our house. We all rehydrated and rushed to Shucutitan to make it there for the 5:30 small group bible study. Edgardo had given me an old digital camera that wouldn’t charge last Sunday to fix. I plugged it in and it seemed to work fine at my house so I took it to the study tonight to give back to him. At the study Edgardo said that the charge light wouldn’t come on for him so afterwards we went to his house. There I tried every socket he had and sure enough it didn’t work there. He said he used the camera to get paid to take pictures of events so hopefully we will be able to help him out with this soon.
Hector said that the paperwork for the dental brigade was not going to be ready until Friday so we are not going to San Salvador at 4:00 AM tomorrow!!!
Hector brought us home and we discussed how to respond to an email for helping Central’s mission and then I installed the new sink fixture in the kitchen and moved the filter.
1
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7:00 AM – 7:20 AM
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Bus to Hector’s to pick up our teammate Lucky
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$0.25
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2
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7:30 AM – 7:50 AM
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Bus back to home to get Della
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$0.25
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3
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8:00 AM – 8:35 AM
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Bus to Ahuachapan to meet Eva &
Fernando
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$0.40
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4
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8:45 AM – 10:00 AM
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Bus to Santa Ana
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$0.50
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5
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10:05 AM – 10:15 AM
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Bus to Metro Central (the Mall)
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$0.20
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Today was a long day, but thankfully we made it through without any problems. Originally we were only going to have Eva for our guide but she contacted her uncle Fernando and he came along with us too. At the start of the bus from Ahuachapan to Santa Ana, a guy got on and put a pack of candy in everyone’s hands. The pack said “gift” in English but I wasn’t really hungry so I just held on to it. After about 5 minutes the man gave his sells pitch and said that the candy cost $$ and then went back and took the candy back from everyone unless they paid. I thought it was a very tricky sells tactic. Throughout our journey several sales people got on the bus yelling out information about their products trying to get people to buy. At the mall I bought a clock and we looked through the furniture store at the bunk beds then Della said she had to eat something. So at 11:00 we went to the food court and I ordered Pizza Hut for everyone. Fernando said it was way too early for him to eat so he just watched us. During lunch we told Fernando how we were looking for a truck and he said he knew of some places nearby we could go look. After lunch we walked out of the mall and down the street and hid behind trees while Fernando went and talked to used car lot salesmen. All that they had was either at the end of its life or way out of our budget. Then we went to a huge store that sold “everything” and I bought a new sink fixture that would enable the filter to be hooked up in the kitchen instead of the bathroom. At 1:45 Fernando got hungry so we went back to the mall and we got ice cream while he ate lunch. After lunch we took buses 5 and 4 back to Ahuachapan. There we bought all the groceries that Della, Lucky and I could carry and then took bus 3 to get back to our house. We all rehydrated and rushed to Shucutitan to make it there for the 5:30 small group bible study. Edgardo had given me an old digital camera that wouldn’t charge last Sunday to fix. I plugged it in and it seemed to work fine at my house so I took it to the study tonight to give back to him. At the study Edgardo said that the charge light wouldn’t come on for him so afterwards we went to his house. There I tried every socket he had and sure enough it didn’t work there. He said he used the camera to get paid to take pictures of events so hopefully we will be able to help him out with this soon.
Hector said that the paperwork for the dental brigade was not going to be ready until Friday so we are not going to San Salvador at 4:00 AM tomorrow!!!
Hector brought us home and we discussed how to respond to an email for helping Central’s mission and then I installed the new sink fixture in the kitchen and moved the filter.
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