December, already?

Well it is hard to believe we have already been here a month. We finished our first month of language training and will be taking the month of December off from language training. We will be going to Matagalpa (a city in the central northern region of Nicaragua) for the first week for a meeting and spiritual retreat with all the Nicaraguan MCC volunteers. After that week we will be going to visit projects in the area we will be working (Boaco region) for two weeks. The volunteer that we are taking over for will be showing us around. We are excited to be able to visit the projects and hope to be able to explore possibilities for our future work. We will have a week off for Christmas, but we are not sure what we will be doing. Then we will return to Managua in January for another month of language training.