Hola! It's the September 15th today which means it is Independence Day for Central America! I am going to a BBQ/party on a volcano today...sounds cool and all but I don’t know how I feel about being the ones right on the volcano (definitely no survival chance if that thing blows). I’m really excited to experience their Independence Day though and see how it’s different, have some fun! I'll post pictures and things about that tomorrow. Anyway (more about coffee..) learned about coffee roasting yesterday!!! It was pretty cool and almost burnt my hand off on the machine because I didn’t understand that they said the machine was hot, I thought he was just saying "it's hot" in general. Oh well, that's how I'm learning my Spanish! The picture shows you basically how it works, the "green" coffee is sucked through the pipe and put inside the roaster, it takes about 30 mins to roast and then is shot into a circular spinning thing (don’t know the name) to cool off. After its dumped into a bucket, then put into bags, then sent to the customer THEN into our cute little coffee mugs at home..or starbucks.

One more thing, I was just want to announce that my bad luck with cars has followed me all the way to El Salvador. Yesterday, a friend of Annabelle’s picked me from the farm to drive me back to San Salvador to spend the holiday with her and about an hour into the trip our car just stops. Mind you, we are in the middle of NO WHERE and had to wait almost three hours for someone to get us. FML.

Have a great day everyone J


This butterfly was stuck in my window.



most patient person in the world.

Right before the car broke down. Stunning sunset, this picture barley captures it.