Continued!

Alright, I´m ready to jump back on the blogging horse!!

Well, as I said, I recently got pretty sick. It srated out as a lousy feeling and then became a full blown fever and tomach ache and awfulness and culminated in my fainting in the middle of the night coming back from the bathroom and then being brought to the emergency room.
It was not a good situation, but I did get to go to the hospital, which was kinda fun. The atmosphere there was very differnt from what it is in American hospitals. My view of a hospital is all white and clean, but here the floors were cement and everything that went on seemed fairly off the cuff. We walked in and instead of going to a receptionist to check in, a lady came over to us with a pad of carbon paper where she wrote my family´s name, signed her own and made a note that we had paid the 30 pesos for the visit. That was all that we had to do and then I went right in to see the doctor.
That part was easy and the doctor just told me to drink lots of fluids, but what really isn´t fun about being sick on exchange is that you get to have a lot of downtime. While this may be fun in the states (missing school, watching TV at odd hours) it wasn´t so great for me because it gave me a ton on time to think about home and with that my mom was with me to rub my back and generally know what would make me feel better. I got really down about being on exchange, but the whole experience served to show me that I have to take things in stride here.
I´ve already been here a month and I honestly don´t know where all that time went (an neither do you, dear reader, since I haven´t really been blogging!). There is no tie for self pity, there is only time to enjoy what a beautiful place I´m in and the wonderful family and friends who are here to share it with me. My host mom took brilliant care of my when I was sick. I had to spend a gorgeous day inside, but I could have spent it looking out the window, if I had know what was good for me. even though I got really sick, I feel lucky to be here and THAT´S what I need to concentrate on, instead of thinking about what I´m not doing in the states.
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