Sick and Tired, A Long Weekend, and Boxes!!

3-2-09 I have been feeling a bit poorly lately. I started feeling truly horrid during church last Sabbath (February 28th) and ended up lying in bed with a wet cloth over my eyes while everybody else was packing up to go to Bigej (the island past the channel) again. I wanted to go, but eventually decided against it, because I felt like I had a fever and wanted to try and be well in order to go diving. So most everyone left, and I was alone in our apartment.

It was very quiet. There were other people in the apartments, sure, but it was still very quiet. I found myself missing everybody and wanting to be on the boat crossing the channel. Hopefully there will be another chance before I leave in May. I was tired, but I was also extraordinarily hungry. I made myself food and ate it while listening to a sermon off of my laptop. Afterward, I had my own little sundown worship, and then I listened to some music and stretched out on my bed, thinking that I'd listen a little bit and then do something to entertain myself.

Ha. I woke up about ten, twenty minutes later, and realized that the best course of action would be to get myself to bed. Which I promptly did. I think I was asleep by 8:00 PM or so, and, for the most part, slept until eight the next morning. I made myself breakfast and ate it most happily. That was one of the things that was a blessing and an annoyance of being sick-ish. I had a fever or so because my body was trying to fight something off, but that made me tired and hungry all the same. I didn't know what time everyone was going to arrive back, but I decided to try my hand at making one of the recipes that Megan has given me: her black bean soup. Very yummy, and I figured that everyone would be hungry after arriving back from the camp-out.

So I made the soup and waited. When everyone finally got back, I started feeling worse again, so I ended up in bed again. The only problem with the soup I made was two-fold: I had made it too early in the day, and so by the time they got back, the rice had soaked up much of the liquid; and two, it needed more chili powder, but I hadn't put too much in because I thought we were close to running out (we're not; we have another whole little bottle of the stuff). Other than that, people liked it!

Our dive class last night was canceled, and that made me happy, because I had already decided that I still wasn't up to diving. You're not supposed to do it when you're sick, and though I suppose that usually applies to blocked sinuses and such, I figured that being so tired probably wouldn't be a good thing. So I went to bed around nine and slept until about nine this morning, because today was a holiday. Well, Sunday was the holiday (Nuclear Victims' Day), but the authorities that be (not our school) canceled Monday's classes. I was hoping to go on the dive today (for our class), but since I still had a slight fever (but it HAD gone down since Sunday) and felt sort of tired and bad still, I missed class today. Which is a bummer, but I can easily make it up (which very much thrills me).

Also, a short time after they all had returned from Bigej, our (the girls') air conditioner decided to up and quit working for some reason. Happily, we had an electrician join our crew a few weeks ago, and he looked at it last night, and worked on it today. (So, yes, we spent a night without our AC. Big deal. Thanks, Mom, for all those summers without AC in Indiana. I completely mean that in a non-sarcastic way.) Boyet fixed our air conditioner by doing something that I could never attempt to do without training. He took another AC's controls and replaced the controls that had gotten fried by the rain, then rigged up something that would drain any future water away from the controls. It's pretty cool. And it saves the cost of buying a new air conditioner.

I haven't gotten anything graded from the things that I collected on Friday, but at least my lesson plans are done (I did them on Friday, too). At least I'm starting to feel better. Yay! Back to grammar on Tuesday.

Oh! Almost forgot (but didn't). I got two of the three boxes that my mom sent me a week or so ago last Thursday. I very much appreciate the clothes and reading materials (already finished the Readers' Digests, AFM and Adventist World). Maybe this sounds a bit weird to those of you who read this, but there is a particular sort of happiness that comes from clothes that fit well. Anyway, I haven't broken into the Girl Scout cookies yet (remember, I've been a bit sick and trying to fight it off, so a nix on the sugar), but I will soon and I plan to share, just like I usually do (and like I promised). Hopefully the other box came in this weekend and I'll be able to get it tomorrow (Tuesday).

More later.