One more addition now that it is Wednesday afternoon.

Adolfo. My new friend in Jayaque. He deserves a moment of recognition. Although I have not heard his story yet, I can tell you this. He is unbelievably in touch with everything. He graduated bachillerato (high school) with a specialization in electricity. He is an electrician in a chicken incubation factory. He travels to Lourdes from Las Flores, about a 2 hour journey by bus on occasion. He works 15 days a month, many back to back. Eight hour shifts. Por ejemplo, today we met him on his way back from his 3pm - 11pm shift. He spends the night in the factory, climbs the mountain back to his house after getting off the bus, and arrives home for a couple of hours. He is a friend of Julios, and a becario in the cooperative in Jayaque. He graciously showed us his home atop the mountain, where we met his beautiful mother who was delicately made up and created an air of perfume with every sweep of her broom and movement of her body across the dirt outside her home.

So the point is - we saw Adolfo (Fito if you will) around 11am this morning, and then again at 1pm this afternoon waiting for the bus to go back to work for the night. But more importantly, he wasn´t tired, he was laughing and curious on sharing conversation with me about why we are all here.

We get that question a lot - why are you gringos in El Salvador?

My question - Why not?

I have a new name ... Face. Neto started calling me face today and Anthony from Fordham has been doing so for a while. Cara means face in spanish (or expensive, but we won´t go there for now)