04-June-09

04-June-09
Good news! Two more interns from York are coming soon (hopefully next week). I received an email in order to put Vivian and myself in contact with them and fill them in on the action. Like I stated before the only draw back is that I am so far from where they are staying. I will have to crash at their place once in a while. :)

Today on my way home from CIS I attempted to take another route home. My aunt told me to take “microbus 53” and then transfer. I waited for half an hour and this “microbus” never came. I called my aunt to tell her about it and to see what other bus she would advise to take. She said to me, “oh, I guess they decided to go another way today.” I had no idea that busses or microbuses take whatever route is convenient on that day. I had to again go on the only route I know and it took me 1:45 to get home. Thankfully I have a lot of material on the methodology and the history of CIS to read so I was well occupied on most of the ride.

As I was reading the teacher manual on the ride home I began to think to myself why is it that people dwell on the past. El Salvador has had a turbulent past and it seems that at times as a nation we can't move because our history keeps being brought up. I am not saying that history is not important according Hegel history in an integral part to our human condition, it is only through history that we are able to understand ourselves but living with this on going memory can cause rancour and in turn not lead to any reformation. I am not saying that we should forget all our history but what I am saying is that we should not make it your present...Perhaps it is more complicated than this but this is what I understand so far.

As days pass by my reason for coming to ES becomes more concrete. I have always wanted to either inform or educate people in one way or another. I have always been a fountain of information (sometimes useful at other times useless) because I like to immerse myself in anything I find interesting. Since I was thirteen I have had the ongoing indecision of either being a teacher or a journalist but on the bus ride I thought to myself, what is the difference? In both occupations I would be in a sense informing or educating people on salient issues. However as a journalist I will be informing the public of that “they” tell me to report. The most rewarding however is teaching because I would be educating someone and regardless of how microcosmic my contribution may be in the end I have left a footprint in someone's life.