Living Thirteen Years in Latin America is a synopsis of three books: Living in El Salvador,
Living in Nicaragua, and Living in Brazil. As a twenty-year-old, I joined the Peace Corps and
was sent to El Salvador. Before going to El Salvador, I spent three months on a mountain top in a
Puerto Rican rain forest learning Spanish-a language for which I had had no previous exposure.
Living in El Salvador documents my struggles with learning Spanish and then adjusting to the
cultural differences of living in a small room in Sonsonate, El Salvador and working with small
Indian farmers.
