Tomorrow El Salvador celebrates their Independence Day with parades and sometimes protests. Today on the way home from school, we saw a marching band (in full uniform) returning to their buses after practicing. It nearly brought traffic at the roundabout to a standstill.
With the national holiday, we don't have school or classes tomorrow. We will stay tucked in at home away from the parades, parks, traffic and protests, if any. Stephen does have band practice tomorrow night at 7:30 so, hopefully, all of the celebrating will be done by then.
Today they interrupted all the cable programming to recite the pledge to the flag which, by the way, is really long--paragraphs long and definitely isn't committed to memory. I guess that's why they read it aloud on TV the day before the holiday.
We've heard a few fireworks, but not many because there aren't any fireworks stands set up. Evidently fireworks are mostly reserved for Christmas Eve at midnight and New Year's Eve at midnight.
We are setting up a one-day medical campaign this Saturday in a very poor neighborhood outside of San Salvador. If you were part of the ALBC mission trip last March--it's the neighborhood around the school where they were fumigating and we met outside to share with the classes. We also returned in the evening to set up the inflatables, show a movie and present the gospel.
Stay tuned for more news from here in El Salvador.
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