Progress has been made with clean up from the flood. Many days were spent sweeping and scrubbing by the families affected and those around them. It is down to the details as people find mud in the crevices of all their belongings. Katie got evacuated the other night from her house as the police got word there was increased rainfall coming in. Everything was okay though. The water supply has been touch and go but things are creeping back to normal. Katie has been a trooper as their water is off again and they are without a fridge or stove for food preparation.
The Easter season here was rather uneventful. For being a largely Catholic country, lenten regulations were not closely followed everywhere. I believe meat was served every Friday at work. Not much happened, to my knowledge, for Easter. There are a few food traditions including fig and a soup called fanesca, that are popular during Holy Week. Pilar, the woman Katie lives with, was very kind in inviting us to spend the weekend with her family on an island. They own cabins on the island but had rented them out for years and now they need some work in order to re-open them. We were around for a big pig roast of which we watches the many stages of cooking. They brought in a Shaman one night who performed his work to remove evil spirits. Overall, the weekend was good, at times slow, but it was nice of the family to have us.
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