Despedida (Rounds 2-3)

In addition to having more than a few despedidas with my favorite volunteers and Espartanos, I also wanted to make sure to say goodbye and thank you to the outstanding Peace Corps El Salvador staff. They however, are impossible to get all together in one place at one time. They pretty much only do that for Obama.

Not in chronological order....the photos from two rounds of staff despedidas:

(Lunch with the amazing Youth Development team. They aren't my bosses, but whenever they came to do site visits up in my zona, I'd ride along so they wouldn't get lost in the campo. It was always a good time.)

(Celebrating two years of service in El Salvador with a trip to...Benihana?!?)

I have the lovely Rosellen Marohn and Molly McMills to thank for putting together the other despedida with staff, and fellow volunteers who couldn't make it out to paintball/swimming in the river. They took us to Gourmet Burger Company...which is sort of like a Chipotle for Burgers...you just keep working your way through a menu of delicious toppings and sauces. Amazing. Started by a guy who used to live in the US, and I wish there were one in the US!

(They have a cube to explain the burger building process.)

(With my favorite staff members, from L to R: Clelia, Jaime, Mayra and Mayra)

(That's a good looking crew. I was lucky to find them all.)

(Explaining the complexities of building burgers to the boss man.)