Besides being a good literal description of our expectations of the Salvadoran rainy season, wet and green have some other meanings for me. Well, despite our best preparations, we're all wet. Most of us know only a tiny bit of Spanish. Just as important, our trip is something brand new in our experience, and we don't exactly know what we're doing. We forget that whenever we commit to doing something, or learning something new, we might feel stupid or fumbling or lost.
All explorers feel lost sometimes.
It's a wonderful opportunity for us to be wet and green, and I want to thank John, who has reminded me of that somehow. What's painful in going to El Salvador. Well, it might be a lot of things. Susanna will not be able to go with us because of her recent illness. It is painful for the rest of us not to have her with us.