Day of the Dead

Bruce buys plastic flowers from friends on the Day of the Dead

Kelly with our host mother (Doña Lydia) at her husband's grave.

The rest of this chapter is a collection of random pictures.  Here you can see the two of us on the welcome sign to the mayor's office--not something we would have consented to, given Peace Corps' apolitical stance.  But of course, we were never asked for consent.

In 1951, an earthquake destroyed the church in our town.  It's said that the church was one of the most beautiful in all of Central America.  This statue is one of the only features that survived the earthquake.

iguana on our roof

Reformed gang members from a nearby jail came to our town and put on a moving play aimed at deterring youth from gang life.

U2 is big in El Salvador.  You probably know the U2 song "Pride (In the Name of Love)."  Well, there is a campaign from a local radio station to bring U2 to El Salvador.  Newspaper ads, billboards, and grocery store charity stickers (pictured) beg "U2, Come! [give a concert] In the name of El Salvador."

Winnie Pooh y Jesucristo