• Bathrooms When our group leader brought up the bathroom situation, someone in the meeting made some remark about how bad it smelled. They suggested we just dig our own hole. I’ve been around some bad bathrooms before. Last time I went down the Ocoee on a whitewater rafting trip, the toilet at the rental place was stopped up. Pretty nasty.
  Then again, the bathrooms in El Salvador couldn’t be any worse than the best squatter bathrooms in China. As long as they have bowls….
• Logistics of packing We are told we can bring our own 2-man tent, but I don’t know how that will fit in a suitcase. Would I be sleeping outside or indoors? The previous year’s pictures I saw showed people sleeping outside in tents. Also we are told to grab the pillow from the airline. Those pillows are pretty small and I’m not sure it would be that comfortable. Although I’m sure working all day dishing out pills and doing head scrubs would make me tired enough to sleep on anything.
• Showers They use a camp shower with one gallon of water. I guess I’m not used to showering with such little water. I ought to try using just one gallon of water and see how long that lasts. Not that it’s a big deal anyways….
• Unbiased advice from others My brother-in-law went to El Salvador a couple of years ago and he recommended NOT doing it, at least based on the trip he was on. He said it was miserable at times with the sand storm. So now I’m not sure if these die-hard Latin American Missions people are just telling me part of the story just to get me to go. I don’t want to go if it is going to be extremely difficult.

I realize that things might not be wrapped up in a neat little package. It will be hard at times. Things will be inconvenient. I’m prepared for that. I just need to really take things into consideration before I make my decision.
Yesterday I helped Todd Burka setup his webpage. Initually he just wanted to host MP3s on there. I told him to ask around and see if there were any restrictions for him storing that type of stuff on his webpage. Somehow I don’t think UT deletes old webpages, since this one is still online a good 2 years after Jeremy graduated.