Ups and downs of being sick in Indo

Deliciousness that made me o so sick. Now I'm at Tante Sylvia's recouping with some awesome family and speedy internet :) Had this shady warung food a couple days ago -- yeah you see the huge pieces of ice in my orange juice... mmm bad choice. Then the next day I had some rujak and spicyness that was tasty but I don't think my stomach likes that stuff so much. So last night around 2am my body thought it'd be nice to visit the blue room every two hours. Fun times. But now I just had some nasi sama kua dan pisang without feeling too bad so I think things are looking up for me. but how I miss my ma muchly at times like this :P

I was supposed to go out to celebrate a friend's bday today, but instead she came and visited me. It is really a beautiful thing that everyone visits you when you're ill. My first day at school I visited the headmaster's wife in the hospital, and another teacher sick at home -- it was a bit uncomfortable on both ends for me bc I guess I just don't want to be seen by all when I'm stuck in bed or in the bathroom, but it's all love here no matter what :P

So here's a pic of some of my friends, a couple of whom visited me today. The asian folks, Lia & Angga, coincidentally go to the same university as my cousin, nina. But actually I met them as relatives of one of my Fulbright guides/leader ppl... They have been awesome hosts to Bandung outside of training. and the bules in the pic are a few of my fav fellow ETAs always down for everything - Ken in North Central Java, John in West Kalimatan and Danielle aka Peaches in Medan.

and as I wrote before here's a pic of the outside of mi casa here in Bandung. A bit prettier outside than it is inside. but it'll do esp since my situation sounds a lot better than others.

and here's a pic of my first hiking trip here. been groovy times so far and these pics are only a few glimpses of the many awesome experiences here. sooo you should visit to get more of an inside scoop ;)

But as for SMAN 11 where I'm teaching - it's a pretty highschool with palm trees and a kantin/cafeteria and one squatter for all teachers. wooo. I haven't really gotten a chance to chill with the students yet bc the past couple days have been just preperation/celebration for MERDEKA! Indonesian independence day that was yesterday. So I've been mostly chillin with the teachers, visiting sick teachers, and playing games with them to celebrate indep day. There was a flag ceremony with all sorts of saluting and then there was a 40min march around school, and then we played some 5 on 5 soccer while karaoke and dancing was going on. I felt pretty Indonesian as I was playing soccer while dancing and singing. People are always dancing here. I don't feel so weirdddd now! haha.

aritey homeys. Mosquitos are eating me here so I think I'm going to have some Pocardi Sweat (salty gatorade) and then crawl back into bed.

till next time.