My Sixth Day in El Salvador

(This is the outside of one of the shops I went to)Today my grandfather and I went touring of El Salvador. We had two very nice ladies take us around and show us some very interesting things. We went to an archeological site called Indigo. There we saw some pyramids. The pyramids have not been searched though because the owners of the museum did not have enough money to cover the funds for it.
We also went to a museum where they had an archeological dig site. I took a picture of it and I will post it for you to see. While there I also did a dye activity. I made a really cool tye dye bandanna looking thing. After that we went to a town were one of the ladies father was originally from. While there I got some souvenirs for me and my family. The shops outside and inside walls were painted with animals and different colors. It was really fascinating. While there we also saw a band play some El Salvadoran music in a park.
Also we saw a church that was decorated for a wedding about to take place. I got a couple pictures of that that I will also post. Tomorrow I go to the Pacific ocean, which will be fascinating since I have only been to the Atlantic.

This is just part of the crowd at bingo.
This picture is of Bryce eating cotton candy at bingo.

My Sixth Day in El Salvador

(This is a picture of boys and girls surrounding the stage where a man is calling out the letters and numbers for bingo.) Today has been much the same as yesterday. We had all the classes for 45 min. periods. Lunch today was awesome. Guess what it was...........it was pizza! I know every one reading this is all 'Wow pizza. Thats new and exciting!'
Right now I'm pretty happy. We are pizza for dinner also, and I am about to go play bingo at the school gym and try and win a ping pong table.
Couple hours later
Well, I just got back from playing bingo with my friend Bryce. I would have won the ping pong table except I was outside when I got bingo and the person playing my card didn't go up and get it. Bingo was pretty fun anyway, there were a lot of people there too. About 700 to maybe a thousand, and thats a lot of people in one gymnasium.
Today I also learned that the president of El Salvador is Tony Saca. There are elections going on right now though so soon there will be a new president of El Salvador.

This is my friend Bryce working on a project that we are doing together for Social Studies. He is the one that I have been following around to most of his classes.

My Fith Day in El Salvador

(This is me in the school uniform before I walked to school. My friend Bryce took it for me.) Today was mostly the same as yesterday, and the day before that and so on. One thing that was different though was that the classes were all 45 minutes long instead of 60, or an hour. It was so that all the classes could fit into the days schedule. Also I learned that on Thursdays, the students have health. Another new kid came today, he is from Arizona. He came to go to school here because his father or mother, or both got a job with the American Embassy here in El Salvador.
Last night I went to a Mexican restaurant. I ordered tacos, and boy they are not the same as in America. The taco I had had chicken in it, melted cheese, pineapple and onions, and it tasted great, except for the pineapple (I don't like pineapple). One thing that is different between the restaurants here and the ones in America is that the menus here are in spanish, so I have to ask one of the people that I am with to translate for me. Right now I can't wait to see what tomorrow has in store for me!

My Fith Day in El Salvador

My Fourth Day in El Salvador

(This is part of the wall surrounding the Complejo and the garage type thing leading out of it, the garage thing is the blue doorway looking thing.) Today I have done most of the same things as yesterday.Something really wierd happened today, while I was walking to a class I saw a cat on the roof of the building!
For fun most of the students play soccer, or handball, which is a mix between soccer and basketball, they also play basketball and volleyball for fun as well. Some also go to movies with their friends on the weekends, some play paintball. The students here are not much different from the ones in America, the only difference is they speak spanish more fluently. The teachers teach most of the same stuff as they do at home. Though spanish is different and we are farther along in math. For english they are reading the Outsiders, which we have already read at home. In science they are learning something totally different from what we are learning. They are learning about chromosomes and the reproductive system and interphase, prophase, metaphase and some other things like that.
Today I also learned that pupusas, which is sort of like a tortilla, is the most famous food in El Salvador and the most liked. Pupusas are mostly made of beans and cheese. My friend, Bryce, once ate 16 of them a one after another. While on the subject of food, for lunch at Escuela American they serve french fries, hot dogs, some Chinese type noodles, pupusas, brownies, doughnuts, apples, differnt types of snacks, gatorade, apple juice, chicken sandwhiches, once they served subway, and some other good stuff.