El Salvador civil war and a new life...

The El Salvador civil war may be the first thing that comes to your mind about this country, so why did I decide to build a website about
El Salvador?

Let me tell you why...

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Because the war ended over 15 years ago and I know a side of El Salvador that you may not know - I grew up there so I know it's a great place to visit!

My background

I was born in El Salvador and lived in the city of San Vicente during my childhood. I loved it, I thought we had a great life and enjoyed all the good things El Salvador has to offer.

In my mind, El Salvador was the best place to live in the whole world!

Some of my fondest memories of living in El Salvador have to do with spending time with my friends and relatives, going to the beach and enjoying the delicious Salvadorean foods.

When I was in my teens, we moved back to San Salvador (where we had previously lived before moving to San Vicente). There we lived for 2 more years and had a blast! Then we left to begin a new chapter in our lives in Canada

A new life...

Although life seemed great, hearing gunshots and reports of civilians being killed, was a constant reminder that we were living during the difficult years of the El Salvador civil war. Fortunately, we lived in an area that was not badly affected by the conflict.

We could all feel the dangers and insecurity of the situation, even we kids were often on the alert. As the years went by the El Salvador civil war began to get worse.

Needless to say, the situation was very stressing for my mom so she made the decision to immigrate to Canada where we all now live.

Of course, this was a very difficult decision for her; it meant leaving relatives, friends and a successful business behind and head for the “unknown”.

As time went on I learned English, made new friends and adapted to my new life in Canada. But I still missed El Salvador, the people, the food, the beaches and just about everything else. So as soon as the El Salvador civil war ended we went back for a vacation and over the years we have gone back numerous times for both short and long stays.

Life changes

Things changed when I became a mom, but I continued to visit El Salvador regularly and even moved back with my son (Ben) for a couple of years after the El Salvador civil war had ended.

He was able to learn about his roots and learned to speak, read and write Spanish.

One day while doing some research on the internet, I came across a website that caught my interest. It asked: “Why not turn your hobby or passion into a successful business working from home?”

And I thought to myself - I'd really like to be able to work from home but can I really do it?

It works!

So I continued reading and my curiosity increased even more. It talked about using SiteBuildIt (SBI) to create an online business.

So I decided to check out SBI and I was impressed by all the success stories of real people just like myself.

The idea of building a website was very daunting at first – but I decided to go for it!

With SiteBuildIt, I have been able to build this website having no previous knowledge about HTML or the slightest idea of how to build a website.

Now, this site does not pay the bills yet, I still have my 9-5 job, but it is well on its way to doing just that.

And the best part… I get to do it writing about my favourite place –
El Salvador, all in my spare time!

Moving forward

Now that the El Salvador civil war is over, I want to share with you and the whole world the great things about this tiny country in Central America.

All over this website you'll find many reasons why I think El Salvador is a great place to discover!

I hope that you find this website interesting, informative and helpful – I sure enjoy putting it together!

But you too can successfully build a website while working from home, SBI showed me how to do it!

Now that El Salvador civil war is over, let's explore it and discover this new destination!