There was another worker who would spend 3 days winding threads. This would then provide enough to make 120 blankets.
As can be seen here, there are dogs everywhere, but we were warned to leave them alone due to fleas and possible rabies. We then toured a local town and then went to a sugar cane factory where we saw them making candy from sugar cane!
The sugar cane is put through a large press, and the liquid is collected and put in the enormous pots shown here. The crushed sugar cane is used to fuel the fires beneath the drums and the boiling sugar is scooped off and cooled to make this local delicacy.
We then stopped at a lookout over a volcano - beautiful country.
From here, we went back home, toured San Vicente by foot, went into a military base and saw a local market, and returned to the hotel and had an amazing dinner (as we did every night). After dinner, our group was hanging out on the balcony writing our journals when the local children started yelling at us through the front gate. Just like almost everyone we had met, they only spoke Spanish. After yelling back many holas, commo estas, and commo te llamos, we were told by our translator it was safe for us to go play baseball in the streets with them! This happened on a couple of nights, and was one of the best experiences of the trip.
The children ranged from a year old to about 20 years old, and they all played in the streets with each other, and organized nightly baseball games. They had an old plastic baseball bat and a few plastic balls which they used to play. They played on the cobblestone road right outside of our hotel/their houses, and used rocks and piles of garbage as bases.
Left to Right:
Christina with Byron and Hans and translator Carlos
Hans gave each of us a marble - even though he has almost nothing, he still found something to give us as a gift. Can't get over how gracious and kind everyone is in El Salvador.
