Wednesday, which really feels like we've been here for a week rather than just a couple days =)

Today has been another interesting day, well at least this morning thus far. But tonight should be interesting also. It's 1:30 and we're leaving for Antigua at 4:00. I've heard that it's about an hour bus ride and it's supposed to be a really bumpy ride.....so we'll see how that all goes.

Anyway, this morning we went to a guy's house in the ravine, which is where a whole bunch of small shacks are located. They are all congregated together in this small area on the edge of this ravine where it basically is a cliff, but people are still able to build their houses on it. At his house, he told us, in Spanish (luckily for me there was someone translating ;)), what he went through in his younger years when he was just married and had children. He told us about the injustice his family suffered and how he watched several of his children being killed right in front of his own eyes. It's hard to imagine that this kind of stuff is happening and is continue to happening around the world. This man also told us about how he was shot and injured and almost died, but by the grace of God, he survived. It is amazing to hear about what some of these people have went through and are continuing to go through just to live from day to day. It makes me think that I've got life pretty eazy and have been quite blessed. He told us how for a long period of time he was just eating tortillas because him and his family could not afford anything else. Once again I'm amazed on how little people can survive on.

To get to this man's house we had to walk down the streets in this "community" which were very steep and were not evenly paved. All around us there was little shacks made out of basically anything these people could find. Most were made out of some sort of bricks and mortar, so the houses were pretty stable, but the ground in which they were located was not as stable. So once it rains, there might be a good chance that some of these houses might not make it, especially through the rainy season, which begins near the end of May.

Anyway, that's basically what we've done thus far, so I best go try to rearrange things in my suitcase (hopefully it'll all fit)

Love you all!!!

P.S. I'm really just being lazy on not putting pictures on here, but eventually they'll come ;)