Poco a Poco

Hola Amigos!

Sorry I havent posted in quite some time. It´s been a bit difficult to find time to post all I want to share.

Wednesday, this past week, we went to Fuentes Georginas for the school activity. Fuentes Georginas is an area with three different hot pools that are filled by the natural hot springs up in the mountains. It was a very relaxing, peaceful and definitely needed trip.

On Thursday, some of my friends and I went out to an Italian restaurant for dinner. We were all really craving pizza so we decided to go BIG and ordered about 3 BIG pizzas between the five of us to try three different kinds that sounded delicious. BAD IDEA. We all ate WAY too much and it was food that we werent used to and honestly now, we werent sure if it was washed correctly.

Friday, the next day, I felt INCREDIBLY sick and ended up leaving school at 11 AM to head to my host casa. Once I got back to my house I layed in bed and started to receive chills and began shaking and apparently, according to my host mom, I was pale and had a fever. I took like 3 different medicines and was in bed from 11:30 Friday morning till 11:30 Saturday morning. I was in bed for an entire 24 hours and it was a looong 24 hours. I cant remember a time when I was ever that sick. I had plenty of time to think about everything going on and so it was a barrier I had to mentally overcome as well. My host moms favorite phrase through all of this was [poco a poco] meaning little by little and telling me to take it slow and not get frustrated with slowy getting better. I was still a bit under the weather on Sunday but I am feeling WONDERFUL today and eating a normal diet!

Also, if anyone has an opportunity to watch the movie, Motorcycle Diaries, I HIGHLY recommend it! I watched it on Saturday in the school since I was still not feeling well and wanted to get out of my room in my host house.

This weekend three more of the Amigos de Jesus community members got into Xela. Their names are Ritamarie, Chris and Erica. It´s been fun having some new faces in the group. We are the only students at Sakribal right now so its cool that we are able to have some good community time.
This weekend we´re planning on climbing Volcan Tajumulco (the highest point in Central America, 4015m) to watch the sunset Saturday evening and the sunrise Sunday morning! I´ve been looking forward to this hike for at least 4 months since I had heard about it from my friend Mike who studied in Xela last summer. I CANNOT WAIT!

Hope you are all well! God bless you.

Love
Kate