Inlfuenza and fog

Holy cow!

First of all the good news, I have friends here! I met a young English teacher and he, his sister, and their friends brought us out dancing last friday night. We returned home at 5am to a tired and grumpy Mirza :(

Saturday I slept all day because I felt icky...a good thing to do to pass the time. I thought I was just tired but I had really bad stomach cramps...

The next morning I woke up fine, went to church with Mirza and we had a barbaque for Jorge´s birthday. Then the stomach cramps started getting worse.

(This part gets a bit disgusting...I apologize for being explicit!)

Monday morning I woke up in a fog. I had a temp of 101.7 and my head and muscles hurt if I moved the slightest bit. I was shooting out diarreah every 30 minutes, especially if I tried to eat something. All I could do was sleep...so I did. Everyone told me it was something I ate but my friend Ryan had the same symptoms as I did yet we didn´t eat anything the same. Monday night around 9:30 my "host dad" came to my house with some remedies and told me to drink lots of water.

After spending the day couped up in the house with Mirza, I am ready to get OUT! She cries over her recently diseased (sp?) husband, talks about how much her heart hurts (she thinks she is going to have a heart attack) and how she doesn´t want to be in this world anymore. They she goes on to tell me that she doesn´t know what she would do without her little "gringita" (me). AHHH!

Today I woke up better for the most part. Clear head and no aches...but I still had diarreah :( I went into school because the teachers were having a late Fathers Day celebration and I didn´t want to miss it. I brough Jorge cake and a card because it is his birthday today. He loved it. After the party he told me to take his car....so I did! He was going to celebrate his birthday with friends. I drove through the foggy rodes of Coronel and arrived safely at the Internet cafe. Now I am going to take it to Mirza´s house. Mom, I know you would kill me if you were here but I had to do it (the adventurous side of me took over.) I´m being super careful and I´m getting way better at driving stick! Woohoo!