Parasite.

Two words that sum up how my day was yesterday...stomach parasite. It was horrible. Parasites are increcibly common whenever people travel abroad but just because they're common does not mean they are enjoyable AT ALL. All of yesterday I fought intense stomach pains and a raging fever and couldn't eat anything at all. I took parasite pills yesterday and something to calm down my fever and literally was in my bed either laying down or asleep all day. The worst part of the parasite was yesterday morning when I was not able to leave the bathroom for at least an hour and a half, and I don't mean throwing up, haha. It was gross. Nevertheless right now I am at Venusa and have some time before my class starts. I feel much MUCH better, no longer have stomach pains and I'm pretty sure my fever is gone as well. I feel weak from not being able to stomach anything yesterday but I'll be totally fine. When I was sick and sleeping, the weirdest thing that happened was that I had the most vivid nightmares. I don't remember all of them but half were in english and the other half in spanish. The one that I do remember is that one of my friends and my mom and I went shopping at target, and somehow my friend and I got mixed up with a gang that lived in the back alleys of target, hahaha. So strange.

Today is a rather rainy day in Merida. I walked here very very very slowly (because I still have no strength) in a very light Venezuelan shower. I'm looking forward to this weekend because we are going to see the Venezuela v. Canada soccer game on Saturday and then most likely Paragliding on Sunday :-). Also on Sunday my roomate and I are planning on going to our host brothers' concert. Alvaro plays the violin and Diego plays the cello. We have been hearing them practice all week long and they both are excellent musicians. I know I will be fully recovered by tomorrow or Saturday, I just can't consume any alcohol for 3 days because of the parasite pills that I took. Oh well. Party on Sunday! Haha. I'm hoping my class goes by rather quickly today because I don't have any tolerance for 6 hours of nonsense. I hope everybody is good and well back home, I miss good old Elmhurst but I'm still falling in love with Merida, parasite or no parasite. I wanted to post a couple more pictures from last weekend. I really really need to take more pictures it's just that during the week there's not much to take pictures of because I'm just in class all day. For sure this weekend I'll bring my camera and capture some memories I can share with everybody on here. Besos!