Amazing People
New Idiom – Va pues (pronounced - ba press) – It is the
equivalent of our “sure or OK” Example – I ask, would you like to eat? You say,
Va pues.
All has been going very smoothly and we really must give
credit first to our Lord but also to the amazing people He has given the task
of helping us. That being Bishop Barahona’s staff.
In the pictures of the Bishops staff you see Dianne and
from left to right are Miriam Romero - Executive Assistant of the Bishop, Maria
Montes - Care Taker of the house, Ana Gomez - Treasure and
Administrative Assistant and Roxana de Velasco - Treasure Assistant. In my
picture from left to right are Hamilton Villatoro – Bookkeeping and William Hernandez
– Driver. Not only are they all extremely hard and dedicated workers but fun
people to spend time with. We ate all our lunches with them the 1st
week. We actually had Subway a couple of times before I said that we’ll gladly
eat Salvadoreno comida comun (Salvadoran common food). Plus Salvadoreno food is
cheaper. Rice, beans, beef and 2 tortilla’s ($2.00). Small subway chicken
sandwich with Chips and soda ($5.25). So tell me, why does Subway charge almost
as much here as in the U.S. when they don’t pay minimum wage, no workers comp
or unemployment benefits in El Salvador??? Just saying.
Miriam in particular navigated us through the process of
getting cellphones and internet service. She also advised us on safety, for
instance Jewelry. She advises not
wearing much but if you do wear silver not gold. Gold sells for more here than
silver. She did all she could to help us all the time.
I want to talk about William the driver too. We’ve been
to El Salvador 5 times now and have had the good fortune of having him be our
driver 3 of those times. This man has nerves of steel that are only exceeded by
his driving skills in this traffic. This traffic I say??, Think heavy Boston
traffic but without too many rules and the roads are in need of some serious
work, not to mention heavy pedestrian traffic too. What’s truly amazing is that
there is never a hint of road rage or exasperation from him. Matter of fact I
haven’t seen even minor road rage here.
The following anonymous quote sums up most of the people
we’ve met in El Salvador “You meet people who forget you, you forget people
that you meet. But sometimes you meet those people you can’t forget”
Salu
Tom & Dianne
Give mis abrazos a todo el mundo, these people are so dear to me. Glad things are going well.
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