Two week update...

Okay, so it's now officially been two weeks. As an important update, it's not a box, rather an octagon shaped room (with lots of windows and even air conditioning which was a plesant surprise). The Oikos area is nice, a couple toilets, a shower (with water less cold than anticipated), a fridge (broke twice, so not too reliable though..), and a stove. Pretty decent overall. All the staff is super nice, it's super difficult (for me at least) to communicate with them, (apparently I suck at learning languges). But it's bareable. 

The goal for the first couple weeks was simply to observe the community and get to know how Oikos works and what they do. So it was pretty chill. A lot of waiting, and driving, stopping by farms, walking up hills.. We saw so many different types of farms, (ALSO so many dogs here too, stray and pets. It's good.) There are an awful lot of these strange greenhouse like structures,  not quite a greenhouse because the function isn't to be extra warm and humid, but more so act as a barrier against harmful sun rays and bug protection.  Which is cool. Most of the farms also have intensive irrigation systems that involve rainwater collection which I thought was super cool. 

We ended up going to San Salvador last weekend and stayed with both Benjamin's and Guillermo's families on seperate nights. Which was super sweet of them. Unfortunately I think I made a strange impression on them due to my entire loss of appetite for a few days (unfortunate side effect of traveller's diarrhea whoops). But it was still good. They both have children (grandchildren) who speak English so communication was good for that weekend. Now Jen is here for a few weeks to act as a translater and help us out for a couple weeks which is awesome. 

Hopefully soon we will start work on the dehydrator! 

[Here we are at Benjamin's family's farm, there was a wonderful view.]