half-way there

This summer has been amazing thus far. We have been getting in a groove of tutoring in the morning and teaching English in the afternoon three days a week. The other two days we have an amazing group of teenage girls in a bible study in the mornings and we get to play softball with some of them in the afternoons.
The current rage is to hang out at the clinic/hospital in town. Ingrid set us off on the way with a night stay, and then Kate decided that Ingrid wasn't going to have all the fun and she stayed for two nights. Currently Rachel is there, and we have yet to know how long she will stay. Hopefully no one else joins that club. Aside from clinic stays, parasites and amoebas abound, so please keep our health in your prayers.
This past weekend we had to say goodbye to Andrew and Jenna, which made us all sad, but most of all probably Brandon as now he is the only male on team estrogen. Before they left we got to go on a midway retreat which was an amazing opportunity for bonding the team together (minus the sickie who will remain nameless). We got to go to an amazing beach and other cool stuff that the writer of this update doesn't know about because she was the sickie. All this was possible due to an extremely generous supporter, so thank you to whoever that was.
It's sad to think that we're already halfway done with our summer here. We have just over two weeks with our host families left, at which point most of us will shed at least one tear (some a lot more than that). Our host families will all miss their hijas nuevas (new daughters) and we will be leaving part of our hearts with them when we go.
Enough of the future tears... here and now is amazing. We are all working on soaking in every moment for all it is worth and not letting any of this amazing summer pass us by.