Ok. A couple of weeks ago our health training group got to go into the capitol to go to the Peace Corps office and look into some of the NGO's in the city. This was an exciting day for us because we had been in a very small campo (village) of 30 houses or so for a few weeks. The office has internet and there are several stores around the office. It is always good to communicate with people back home (hint hint) and stock up on chocolate and peanut butter. We were in the city for about 8 hours or so. We hired a guagua (transport van) to drive us from our campo into the city and then home again. We were heading home during rush hour. Which by the way is not bad compared to a lot of places I have lived but here its is filled with a lot more pollution and stops.
After the first break down we all thought that we were going to be stuck for awhile but the driver got out and did something underneath the guagua.
While we were waiting we were solicited by a couple of men selling plantains. Although we all wanted more plantains (sarcasm) we passed on the offer.
The second stop was near a park. It was a nice view while the driver once again fixed whatever was wrong, or just jimmy rigged it. After we were on our way with no more stops. Yay!
