Greetings from El Salvador Week One

Well, I made it safely into San Salvador, El Salvador. My first week was spent meeting the people I will be working with at the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) and the Ministry of Health. I did not get to spend too much time with them because I came down with the dreaded travelers stomach. I spent two days glued to the toilet in my hotel. But I am back on my feet now just in time to revise my project proposal once again!. I will be started my field work next week and have been warned that the latrines have not been very well maintained. Do not worry all I will be posting pictures so you all can enjoy the thrills of studying sanitation in rural areas.
The hotel I am staying in is quite quaint. Tropical setting, trees all around. Free breakfast which today included plantains and black beans and rice. Who eats black beans and rice for breakfast?? I stuck with the traditional omelet and fruit. I think the staff is perplexed that I do not drink coffee. They keep coming up to me and offering me coffee two or three times during breakfast. I will have to learn Spanish for I do not drink coffee and post it on my chest. Seriously, the El Salvador people are very nice, trying their hardest to speak English as I try my hardest to have them understand my limited Spanish. Somehow communication happens.
Next week I am sure to have something exciting to blog about unlike this week which was pretty mundane, illness and all.
Patty