I don't know my address yet...I keep forgetting to ask my host mother. I will try to remember to ask tonight....
So I got sick again last night (like my first night here)...and I think I discovered why. Both nights I took cough medicine a couple hours before I got sick. So I read the instructions that came with the bottle of cough syrup. The woman at the place I bought it told me to take two teaspoons, but she didn't give me a measuring cup. So I have just been taking sips from the bottle. After last night I realized it says to take 5mL each time...every couple hours. I looked at the bottle and realized that with my first sip and second sip combined, I took half the bottle. The bottle is 100mL, so that would mean I took about 25mL each time, meaning I had 5x the normal dose. Side effects were listed as gastrointestinal problems as well as confusion. Cool. So that's why my stomach has to spend an hour emptying itself of any speck of food I could have eaten in the past week, each time I overdose on this medicine. I am not going to take it anymore.
Anyway, I'm sure everyone wanted to hear about that. I don't think it was the fruit afterall : ) That's the good news.
My mother picked me up from school yesterday, I feel like I am in elementary school again. We took a matatu home and didn't get on one til the third try because we kept getting pushed off because they were too crowded. This city is CRAZY crowded and SO polluted. It's extremely hard to breathe because of all the exhaust. It's like sucking on the exhaust pipe of a car. Walking and driving is like every person for themselves. It's kind of nerve wracking, but I am getting used to it. (Cover your ears mom). : )
Anyway, I am at the YWCA where Whitney lives with her family. I am jealous of her big family and lots of sisters. It's kind of lonely at my house because it's usually just me and my mother. Chippa has been gone for a few days visiting cousins. I was alseep when he left on Sunday afternoon and I haven't seen him since. I hope he comes back soon.
Well that's pretty much all my news. Classes haven't started and most professors haven't even made course outlines or put out class lists. It's pretty lax here. Maybe by next week we will start.
Sarah- I am so proud of you. This is a little different than going to London for a semester. What great stories you have collected already! So glad you are doing this blog too. I hope you can keep it up--although it doesn't sound like classes will be too taxing. Maybe you could track down a bike instead of using the bus?
ReplyDeleteI wish I had some exciting news to share, but not really. Bill and Kat and I are going to the Bahamas in a couple of weeks and definately looking forward to that. Stay safe! Love,
Aunt Jan
It definitely pays to read about the medicine you're taking before you take it. Glug glug glug.
ReplyDeleteNote to self. Take little medicine measuring cup on future trips abroad. As you know, it can also be used as a water container for water color pencils.
Speaking of which, the ladies at prison say hello. Last night, I sat down at one of the tables and the woman I sat next to had just gotten her meds, which had a speeding-up effect on her. She said, 'Yousmellgood. I'mgonnarubupagainstyouinsteadoftakingashower."
Whoa.
Peace out, homeslice.