El Salvador

El Salvador is an interesting place! I wish I could speak Spanish though. My vocab consists of three words at this stage, of which I cant spell and therefore I wont type out but its basically hi, thanks, and el hafe which means the boss, all extremely useful words. I just went to the supermarket for instance and the clerk asked me something and I hedged my bets and said no hoping that was the right answer, she just looked at me strangely and continued scanning my items, I would really like to know what she had said, it was probally something like hows your day been ha. When I got out of the airport Adrian had written a couple of words for me to say and I just pointed at can you take me here, then I pointed at the address to which the driver said si. Luckily he knew what he was doing and I got to the backpackers in no time. Although in another instance some Police asked me something when I was walking down the street and I had to go find Sarah as I couldnt understand a thing he said apparently I look sus and he wanted my ID.
Although once I was glad that I didnt speak Spanish as some guy came into our bus and was shouted all these Bible verse in Spanish.
I spent most the day just walking around with this American girl. I had tacos for lunch! but they are nothing like the tacos at home, the corn taco is really soft and much smaller not to mention they cost $1.50 for three.
On Wednesday I went out with some english guys and some Americans to this crazy bar to watch the soccer! the centeral Americans loveee soccer, everyone was going for Spain and we stuffed our faces on more tacos and tortas not to mention refried beans.
Sarah (a friend from uni) cam in from Mexico around 7 am I was actually sleeping at the time due to a long and hard game of spoons that I was playing with the above group ( we changed the rules to include alchol)
We had decided that the beach would be the next best place to go, thus we spent about an hour to go to a place called playa el tunco which apparently has a great beach. But to be honest it was not really something I would call a beach there was no sand more like pebbles and the surf was huge. We tried to be aventerous and walk out at low tide to this small island about 50 meters from the shore, about half way Sarah slipped and fell in the water bag (she didnt have swim wear on) she then go up and walked another 5 meters an slipped and fell again.
At the moment im back in San Salvador heading off to Nicaragua tomorrow to a place called Leon where we are going to go crater surfing, I really have no idea how it is done, but it just sounds great ! ha, there is lots of other stuff to do there as well and its apparently quite beautiful.
I havnt really seen much of El Salvador just San Salvador and the beach, but Nicaragua is susposed to be where everything is going on, so we though it would be best to check it out. The people here are nice we constantly get lost but always find people that are willing to help.
Ill try and update in another few days
Joe