Hooray for not being sick, and hooray for packages!

So the last week or so has been filled with many exciting events for us. Earlier on last week I was blessed with the gift of a bacterial infection in my stomach, which made me feel sick like I cant remember. I didnt know that i could throw up that much and have diarrhea at the same time! Luckily I was in contact with the Peace Corps doctor throughout the night. That night I also got to experience going to a Nicaraguan laboratory where they took my blood and a stool sample, they had to open for me. My mom was great and was with me the whole time and afterward she went to the town Jenny lives in to get the antibiotics and also to bring Jenny to me. I appreciated that a lot, although Im sure Jenny would have rather been sleeping then cleaning up after me all night.:) But then next day I got picked up and brought to Managua for more blood and stool sampling and i got to spend the night in an air conditioned hotel room with hot water! Which would have been great except for the fact that i felt horrible, I think Jenny got to enjoy it a little more than I did. But, I figure what is a better way to lose 5 to 10 lbs then to have a bacterial infection and not be able to eat for a day or so..right? A couple days after my sickness we had a very important day, Counterpart day. That is the day where we go to Managua and meet our counterparts and the directors of our school, and then at the end of the day we go up to our sites to visit for the week. Ours is about a 2 to 2 and half hour ride in a microbus. Luckily i got to ride backwards the whole time and and stare at some other guy... But overall the site visit went well, both of our counterparts were really nice and excited to work with us as were the directoras of the schools. Our house that we are staying at for the first 6 weeks there is very nice, we have our own door to our room and even have cable in the room. Im sure Jenny has already written some of this but Im too lazy to look over what shes written. I think for the first time in my life I got to experience riding on a bike with another person all around Chinandega, including downtown. I got to sit on the frame of the bike with my legs to the side and Jennys counterpart pedaled. Jenny was on the bike with the other teacher, and boy could these guys manuever through tight spots with us on the bike, we didnt fall once, which is more than would be said if Jenny and I would have shared a bike! So training is just about to wrap up, we go to Managua next weds. and get swore in Friday. After thanksgiving we are off to our sites permanently! in between swearing in an leaving for our site we have an all volunteer conference which is supposed to be a lot of fun and we get to go as a group to Granada for the weekend. Not too shabby a reward for all the work we have put in in training. Tommorrow we have our final language interview and i still need to move up one sub level, so Im hopeing for the best!

PS. we got like 7 or more packages yesterday, which was amazing... So thanks to Jennys mom, my mom, kara, Mike, and Laura.. i think thats everyone.