A few weeks ago I finally decided it had just been too long, and I couldn’t waste any more time getting around to learning how to milk a cow or goat. Besides the fact that it is somewhat essential to my dream of eventually retiring out to a little farm, I figured, if nothing else, it would make for a good story and be a skill I could put on my résumé and use in all those graduate school applications I’ll be filling out post-Peace Corps…
This is my best friend in San Luis, a big jolly guy named Mario, but known to just about everyone but his momma as Pipa. I often go raccoon and opossum hunting with him at night and fishing with him on the weekends. I was invited by a few Ministry of Agriculture counterparts of mine to see a field of experimental new corn seeds they had developed for this coming year and invited him along with me.
A few weeks ago, El Salvador held mayoral and congressional elections all over the country. To avoid any issues or claims of political tampering, Peace Corps informed all of us we weren’t allowed to leave our communities starting a day before the elections until a full day after. To escape the boredom of this lockdown, I decided to make a trip to a nearby swimming hole.
Turns out I wasn’t the only one who had that idea…I was quickly joined by a mysterious Salvadoran man I had never before seen who quickly stripped down to his Speedo and goggles, looked around for about 5 minutes, and without getting even a single toe wet, quickly fled the scene. Note: it is completely possible he was a little bit freaked out by a gringo trying to surreptitiously snap photos of him in a Speedo and that led to his quick departure.
When I got my camera, the box claimed it was waterproof, but out of sheer disbelief and fear, I had always been scared to actually test the claims of being waterproof. However, I decided I had to finally test it…here is my proof, it really is waterproof!
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