BAAAAAACK in action.

Welllll after being sick for a few days with a rather unpleasant (aka miserable) kidney infection FINALLY i´m back, and by back I mean walking around because that feels pretty awesome compared to the last week. I´m not really looking for any sympathy notes here because I didn´t really decide it was necessary to ask for a doctor until five days of feeling "not so well" and two days of feeling "terrible" (as well as alternating between sleeping, having body shaking, teeth chattering chills, and sweating through my clothes...pleasant). I think I was in a fetal position for about 9/10ths of saturday and sunday...and monday and tuesday now that I think about it. But the doctor came to the house ($10), sent me to a lab for tests ($10 and a lot of pride lost when I couldn´t pee for about 1 1/2 hours-shyyy) and some antibiotics ($25) and now I feel great ($PRICELESS$).

So what did I learn from the past week?
-Do not get a kidney infection...they are pretty lame
-Being in bed for hours upon hours upon hours will hurt your neck
-Drinking liquids is good when your sick. Go figure.

SO now that I´ve wasted a week being sick, IT´S FINALLY HERE...I´m leaving for Lyon TOMORROW! I suppose you can gather I´m excited from all the capital letters but I CAN´T WAIT! First of all, because I´m going down with my friend Christine and her friend Ervin. Christine is the girl that I´ll be replacing at Las Tias...she had an unfortunate accident with her passport and has stayed here waiting for it to be renewed. Ervin is her friend from Lyon, he makes amazing jewlry and is super nice (first friend in Lyon-check!) and taught me how to make an ashtray out of a beer can-which is a sweet party trick but probably would be better if I smoked. Second reason for excitement, because I´m starting work on Monday. Can. Not. Wait. Okay I´m wildly nervous but I´ll cross that bridge when I get to it. Third reason of excitement...AHHH. So there´s this group in Lyon called Quetzaltrekkers (I have to give credit to my Mom for finding them on the Internet). They´re a group of volunteers and they organize day, overnight, and weekend hikes up the volcanoes around Lyon. All their money goes to...guess. Yes! Las Tias! Which is awesome. I e-mailed them a little while ago asking if they needed volunteers a few days a week (because apparently at Las Tias I´ll only be teaching 3 mayyybe 4 days a week) and they wrote back and said yeah! I can train to lead hikes up volcanoes or do promotion work for the club and oh mann I´m psyched. I´m calling it operation volunteer double whammie (you know, because they donate to the organization I´m working for, yeah I know...corny, forget it). So that´s about it for now. I¨m pretty psyched to be healthy and heading to Lyon. Hasta luego!