I made it to El Salvador safe and sound. In Houston, I met up with Julie from Minnesota (this Julie is Julie L.). We hung around the airport for a couple of hours.
I was a little bit worried in Houston that we wouldn´t make it. We got on the plane at the time we were supposed to but then we waited forever. First we had to wait for some people from a delayed connecting flight. Then we had to wait for them to get all the luggage they could legally get on the plane (that´s about the exact words of the pilot). This made me worried for two reasons. One reason being that I was afraid that my checked bag wouldn´t get on the plane and it would get lost forever. The second reason this made me worried was that this mean While we were sitting there in the plane waiting for the passengers and the loading of the luggage, it got VERY hot on the plane. It was about 100 degrees outside in Houston and the plane´s poor little air conditioning system just could´t keep up. Eventually after waiting more than an hour on the plane we taxied for what seemed like miles and the took off. I sat next to Julie L. and a very nice lady, originally from El Salvador, who was going to a wedding. It took quite a while for the plane to cool down, but it eventually got to be a tolerable temperature.
It took forever to get through immigration and customs, but thankfully all our bags had made it onto the plane and they let us leave the airport with no issues. The other Julie (Julie R.) has been in El Salvador a couple of weeks already and was outside the airport waiting for us with a bunch of Salvadorans. We came back to the Lutheran Guest House in San Salvador where I´ll be staying for most of the time I´m here. It has been SO wonderful to see familiar faces and to be genuinely welcomed back. Feels a little like home.
