Getting Here

As some of you know, I drove to Dallas on Friday and flew to El Salvador yesterday. This is surely the quickest way to get there by plane, right? Wrong. Very wrong. You've obviously never flown with American Airlines.
We were supposed to leave at 4:20. Which slowly became 4:45. Which quickly became 5:00. At 5:15 we begin to board. Good news, right? Wrong again. We sit on the plane until 6:30 because the caterers didn't put enough food on board. (me and the girl next to me were gladly offering up our sandwich's to be able to leave, but the flight attendants didn't listen). We eventually get into the air, and I start talking to the girl sitting next to me. She got married and had a baby at 17. Her husband is from El Salvador. Well, after they got married, they decided to get his immigration papers. They go to all of this trouble to fill out all of the paper work, pay all of the fees, and finally America government says "Listen, you've got an appointment with the Embassy if you can just go back to ES for 4-6 months, we'll give you a call". 26 months later they still haven't gotten the call. And she left her daughter with him in ES so that she could get to know her family here. She hasn't seen her daughter since last April. But now, we're landing at 9:30 instead of 6:20 and she's kinda freaking out... Like any normal mother would.

Well, we get through customs and finally find our bags (Katie's took a while to come through), and we get outside to find Edward and Oscar (two of the Orphan Helpers workers) waiting for us. And then, out of the crowd, I heard in those lovely Spanish voices "Lydia!" and I find two of the girls (and their daughters) from The Promise House walking behind Edward and Oscar. So exciting! I think I almost screamed. (If any of you saw my status on Facebook, that is who Tatiana, Tonita, Fabi and Glenda are.)

Our house is really house. Katie and I are sharing a room, and we have two fans so we don't get hot (we actually got cold last night) and a bathroom across from our room with running (and hot) water.

Today we're going to go grocery shopping for our lunch food, and then we'll be spending the rest of the day at The Promise House :)

I'm so blessed to be here, and I'm so excited to see what else this week stores. I'm sure you're all eagerly awaiting for more.