El Salvador

I have seen many airports in my travels, but none as small as the one I landed at in El Salvador. As the plane approached the gate, I said to my grandparents “This must be the smallest runway I have ever seen”, while thinking to myself “I can’t believe I’m in another country!”. The moment the plane landed, was the moment the greatest adventure of my life began. I traveled often as a child, for my mother’s family is from Missouri, so we took family vacations back to her hometown. I knew how…

I was seven years old. Me and my family are on our way to El Salvador. It’ll be the first time meeting my grandparents. It was 6am My uncle is dropping us off. It was my first time on an airplane so it was pretty nerve racking. Once we got to the airport, the flight attendance checked out bag and we waited till we on plane. I was really shaky. Moving my right leg up and down like if waiting to go next for my doctor's appointment. I was so tense. I start to think about all the stuff that can go…

Never again have I experienced the same joy and love for life that I once did in my home country El Salvador. Though it is a nation enveloped in violence and poverty, living in it taught me to appreciate life and the wonders of nature. While the days were filled with chaos and people trying to survive another day, the night gave rise to the moon, stars, peace and tranquility. One moonless night out in the countryside, as I gazed upon the most marvelous starry night sky, my perspective changed.…

Silvia’s story Silvia’s future looks promising in El Salvador. After finishing high school she enrolled in college She was living with her parents at the time, and working part-time job at a fast food restaurant. The time to make an important decision came. She has three siblings. Being Silvia, the youngest one, one of her siblings that had moved out of the country invited her to come visit her in Indiana. It was Silvia's dream on becoming a nurse so she enrolled in college so she can fulfill…

Isabelle Anne Romero, of Filipino decent, standing 5’3 inches was born October 10th, 2001, in Fresno California. Isabelle lives with both her parents and her younger sister Natalie most of the year. However half of the year her grandparents who are from the Philippines come and stay with her family. When they are in town it’s an absolute treat to everyone because of the homemade egg rolls that they generously share with the entire community. Isabelle playing both comp and varsity volleyball,…

I was born November 8, 1977, in San Salvador, El Salvador. I was raised around Ilopango which is a small town right outside of the capital and my birth place. It was much more rural, like a countryside really. It was a pretty place to grow up. The town was extremely small. There were only a few houses that were largely spread out throughout the town. In no way was my situation luxurious. My parents didn’t really want me, or any of us really. I knew my dad and my mother and where they were but in…

Archbishop Romero overall had a positive effect on the people of El Salvador although he wasn’t well liked by some people also. The negative affect Romero had on some people is visible when Oscar Romero was named Archbishop. It states that “not everyone was happy with Romero’s naming. For some priests and others who had pondered the new direction given the church by Vatican II and the pronouncements of the Latin American bishops at Medellin in 1968, Romero seem wedded to the old ways and his…

person has a story. Every family has a past, a place they come from, a place they call home. For my family, that place is now in the United States. However, this wasn’t always our home. My family comes from a small country in Central America called El Salvador. Both my grandmothers arrived in the U.S. sometime in the 1980’s. This is where our story here begins. My grandmothers both came to this country seeking the American Dream. A life away from poverty, a life that held hope for not only their…

Going to my grandma’s house in El Salvador was like a dream come true. The old home sat upon a hill with acres of green freedom, every hill was covered with splashes of green and a vast forest enveloped her home. It was a secret home for me. As a result, the mysterious home became my fantasy land. In the living room, I could look out my window and observe the peaceful world outside the humble home; I always felt joy to think of my special window. Beyond, the view that mesmerized me like a new…

disagreements among the soldiers as to what to do with the children in the schoolhouse. Finally, they strafed the schoolhouse with bullets from their American automatic weapons and burned the schoolhouse and everything inside of it. So ended the massacre at El Mozote, everything dead and decimated, with corpses strewn about the town. They were some survivors. Rufina Amaya recounted a unbelievable story about how she was able to escape from the soldiers, in a crab tree (Donner 73). She…