Visit to El Ocotal

I got to visit Kevin this weekend in El Ocotal! It was great to see him and meet his family but his site has absolutely nothing! It is beautiful but up on a hill in the middle of nowhere. There is a pool down the hill from him so we spent the day yesterday and today with friends at the pool, it was a nice break from training. His family extremely nice but really difficult to understand so it is hard for him. My family is almost never home so I hang out by myself a lot. We had our second language interviews last week and we both moved up so that is good. I am now past the level I need to not get sent home and Kev only has one more step so that is nice (Elizabeth moved up quite a bit too so she was really excited). We are finally starting to go to schools and work with them so that is really nice. We are in groups of four (Michael is in my group and got to break up his first fight), and it is nice to have all different Spanish levels. Kevin got to help build a pila and a latrine and is now working on a presentation with a teacher so he is excited to be out doing things and not sitting in a classroom all day. I finally had to go to the doctor last week and it was actually not a horrible experience. I did not get hooked up to an IV or have any blood drawn so I was super stoked. I got a lot of medications (I have no idea what he would only say they were for my stomach) but I felt so much better afterwards. Now I am healthy again and back to eating ice cream on a daily basis. I also run most mornings (at 5:30 who would have thunk it), and that is really nice. So far so good and only 3 more weeks of FBT until we can go back to our awesome family in Zarabanda!