On a bus to El Salvador

Quick and personal tonight...

Living in Guatemala means that you always have to "stay on your toes" because you never know what's coming next! (In fact, it could be said Guatemala is a country of de facto ballet dancers.)

For example: yesterday Quique, my boss at Incidencia Democratica, asked if I wouldn't mind traveling to El Salvador tomorrow morning.

"Sure!", I replied.

Which kinda goes to show the extent to which I have become Guatemalatized over the years. A more "normal" person would, perhaps, have first asked "Why?"

The why, it turns out, has to do with a new service that we at Incidencia will be offering in the near future: public opinion polls. To that end, "CS Sondea", a respected Salvadoran polling organization, is assisting us in the early stages of the project.

So tomorrow at 7am I will board a bus for San Salvador to receive two days of training in the software that CS Sondea uses to compile polling data and compute the results.

Yeah, I know that sounds kinda geeky. But I am excited about the trip and looking forward to meeting the folks at CS Sondea. Who knows... I might actually learn something, too!

By the way, if you don't hear from me in the next few days, don't worry. It's probably because my hands are too full of pupusas to be able to type.

Tags: Guatemala, El Salvador, CS Sondea, Travel, Pupusas