Tuesday, October 9, 2007 Recovering Slowly

Tuesday, October 9, 2007 Recovering Slowly

I woke up this morning and my eyes were practically not swollen. My face was still slightly red and dry but I felt much better. Since I didn’t have class today I used all morning to study and write my paper. After almuerzo I headed to Nuestra Casa to “volunteer” /hang out for a few hours. I had a good time explaining what had happened to my face and all the men told me that I got litre because I didn’t greet it! The urban legend is that if you say “Hola Señor Litre, dejame pasar porfavor” (“Hello Mr. Litre, please let me pass”) or something along those lines that I wouldn’t have gotten litre! I told them I’d wish I’d known before but I’ve definitely learned my lesson.

Around 7 Lorin (the other volunteer from my program) and I walked back. My friend Nick came over to the apartment to study for our Education test tomorrow and Olga was pleased to play hostess. We studied for a few hours, which basically consisted of him explaining all the theories and ideologies about education to me. Luckily he understood it all and could break it down for me; otherwise I would have been completely lost. Olga made us once and Nick was thrilled to have so many vegetables and kept saying how great Olga is.

Nick left a little before 11 to catch the metro home and I studied a few more hours before going to sleep. My face had slowly gotten more red and swollen throughout the day and by the time I went to sleep I looked pretty bad. But I figured it’d be better in the morning and that it was only worse because I’d been up and around all day long.