WOW ! Im finally back to site, without visitors, so I will finally update you on the past few weeks. Starting with 3 weeks ago, I had a student from Seattle stay with me for a few days. Natalie, she had been volunteering with another volunteer in Rongo, and decided she wanted to see Eldoret.  We had a great time. We also visited a clinic that is big on fistula repairs. Google it if you don't know what a fistula is, it's a little too graphic for me to write about here.
After her visit, I headed to Bomet, to visit 2 volunteers, Cassidy and Johanna. I stayed with them for 2 days, then we all headed to Nairobi. Cassidy was flying home, and Johanna and I had our mid service medical exam.  Well wouldn't you know, but peace corps messed up the dates and told us to be in Nairobi on Sunday, when Monday was a holiday. Go figure, so our medical exam couldn't start until Tuesday, which means we had to stay until Friday! So I spent a (very expensive) week in Nairobi. No wonder peace corps calls in Nai-robbery.  It's such a culture shock, compared to being in the village. I spend on one meal in Nairobi what I would spend in an entire week at my site. But I will not lie to you and tell you that I hated it. It was really nice to get out of the village, and get to see my friends. And best of all TB free! hahah that's pretty much all they were worried about at the medical exam.
After Nairobi, we headed to Kisumu. I got to spend my birthday laying by the pool, and going out dancing. It was, to say the least, an AWESOME birthday! Made possible by my great group of friends!
We all enjoyed our night out in Kisumu before going up to a Pastorial Center (aka, convent) to spend the week in a PEPFAR HIV/AIDS training.
 We have had PEPFAR trainings before, and am usually unimpressed by the content of the training. Each volunteer brings 2 counter parts (or co workers) with them from their community. I really feel this is a great learning experience for the counter parts. But for us as volunteers, its mostly a refresher course. But again, it's a great excuse to get away from site, and spend time with some volunteers we never get to see. 
The first 2 days of training, I got to learn more of my local language: Kalenjin. We learned so much in 2 days, that we decided to apply for a language immersion. Which will happen next week. I will travel to Andrea's site, along with Cassidy and Johanna (we are all Kalenjin) and we will spend 3 days learning more of the language. Look out resume! here comes language number 3!
The rest of the training, like I said was a lot of what I already know. But it was good to see the counterparts getting involved in the discussions. We also got to get to know the counterparts a lot better. One night andrea and I had dinner in Kisumu, when we cam back, there was music playing. We ran into the hall, and found all the counterparts sitting and watching a couple people dance. Well with that, we ran and started dancing right along with them! After a couple songs, we got some more volunteers in to help, and eventually got everyone out of their seats and dancing! Im sure there are some pretty funny pictures floating around there some where. 
I got home on Saturday, completely exhausted, with my voice almost gone. I had a great "vacation" but am really happy to get back home. I think I might have been more happy to see kibaibai then he was to see me. Now I'm ready to buckle down and get some real work done in my community.