El Salvador
Niltze, Hello, Today we are going
to “visit” El Salvador. I actually have
visited El Salvador before, but I was so young that I don’t really remember very
much about our trip. In El Salvador the official language is Spanish but the
greeting I used today was in Nahuatl since I’ve used the Spanish greetings in
other posts.
El Salvador is the smallest
country in Central America but that doesn’t stop it from being home to many
people. Around 4.45 million people live here which means about 745 people live
in each square mile.
86% of the population is mestizo,
which means they have a mix of Spanish and Indian ancestors. They Mestizo and
White population talk Spanish. They are
also called Ladinos. Most of the
indigenous people are decended from the Pancho Indians who speak a dialect of
Nahua. Most of these people live in
villages that were built by their ancestors the Pipil Indians.
The money in El Salvador is
called the colón. It would take 8.75 colones to equal one U.S. dollar.
A typical dish in
El Salvador is the papusa, it is made of a rice or corn flour flatbread with
cheese, beans, and sometimes meat mixed into it. When our family visited Belize several years ago we got to try out this delicious food from El Salvador.
The capital of El Salvador is San Salvador, which means “Holy Savior”. And truly the people of El Salvador are in need of The Savior and there are people who are working toward sharing the gospel with them. One mission that I checked out was called Mission to El Salvador. They work with young (and older) people in helping them over addictions and problems from the past. One of the things that caught my interest they have some really neat cards using a method called quilling. I've made some cards like this but I'm not planning to tell how on my blog. If you want ideas for how to do it or if you're interested in helping others help themselves, check it out HERE. Following is a quote, "Instead of giving them hand-outs and creating dependency we try to give them a hand-up" this includes seeing potential in the people who they help and then helping them find a way to make use of their gifts to take care of themselves. If you want to learn more about the work done by Mission to El Salvador click here.
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The cards
for today can be made using only a pencil, pen and paper. I just call them hand
drawn and hand written cards. I enjoy drawing so I’m going to start with
those. The thing I like to do best is
find a picture in a magazine or something that I’ve seen and try to draw it.
This is
the only step by step drawn card that I have pictures of and even these
pictures didn’t turn out very good but hopefully you can get the idea.
#1. Pick
out a picture to draw, I chose this one out of a stamp catalog.
#2. Start
at the bottom by using a pencil to draw the grass and a few leaves and flowers.
#3. Now
add some bigger flowers and leaves.
#6. Add
the rest of the flowers and leaves. Draw the mailbox post in among the leaves
and add a vine and some curly cues. I
also started the tail of the cat in this step.
#7. Draw
the cats in and add the flag and the beginning of the mail box door.
#8.
Finish adding the flowers and leaves and add any finishing touches you think it
needs.
#9. When
your picture is done go back over it with a sharpie pen or just a regular pen
will do. When you are certain the ink
will not smear you can erase the pencil lines.
Note: you can just draw with a pen in the first place but then if you make a mistake you have to be more creative to cover it up.😉
If you aren’t
comfortable with drawing things there is always carbon paper which you can
trace with or you can do like we did when we were young and use the door to trace things. Copy over it with a black pen and add
finishing touches.
Here are
the cards I made to demonstrate drawn cards.
The balloons were definitely the easiest. And the dog is pretty easy too. I got that idea from a sticker someone sent
me. The others were mostly a mix of the stamp catalogue and my head.
For hand
written cards I like to look off something to do them and a good place to get
ideas is adult coloring books. Here I looked off how the words were done. They
do have my own touch too.
This one
is an idea from a coloring book too minus a lot of added “trinkets”.
And you can always just find a verse from the Bible to write on your card or an inspirational quote.
These
are the cards I made to show how I do hand written cards. You can see the different fonts I used.
Sometimes it’s fun to just do something simple and sometimes I like to try
something more challenging. It is good
to plan ahead because one problem I struggle with some is ending up squished at
the end. You can kind of see it on some
of these cards. So take a lesson. 😄
Here's a poem I wrote. Maybe it will inspire you to make the best of the things that happen in your life. Or you can pass it on.
When Life
Hands You Lemons,
Make
Lemonade.
-Vanessa Gingerich
Ixquicha nimitzihtaz, Until the next time I see you…
Sources: World Book Encyclopedia
omniglot.com
worldpopulationreview.com
en.wiki.org
Mission to El Salvador
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