January 25th & 26th, 2013 (No, I'm not a month behind on my dates...just a month behind on my posting)
Friday, Friday, Friday!!!! I love Fridays! I worked out in
the morning to a “video” on my MAC and Aniceto delivered my brand-new shelves and
nightstand for my room. He’s a
carpenter and built them himself for me.
He also asked me for a list of anything else I wanted so I requested a
toile-paper holder and….ask and you shall receive!
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| I would have never thought to make a toilet paper holder out of wood...but I try to avoid plastic so I'm very happy about it! |
I went to work in the morning and had a meeting with Josh to
go over the week. After that, I
called it a day and went to town to buy some veggies and head home. I met a really nice local girl at the
veggie stand and I’ve seen her almost daily since and we always say “Hola,
amiga!” since neither one of us remembers the other ones name but know we
should J I made myself a shake and then took a
nap…and then I woke up, violently ill…really VIOLENTLY ill. I was up all day and night sick, out
both ends. I’ll spare you any more
details, but suffice it to say, it was not fun!
Thankfully, by Saturday, it had stopped, but I was still
weak and scared to eat or do much.
I was craving a ginger ail so I staggered into town to get one and that
was all I had until late afternoon when I had an egg and some beans I had made
the day before. During the day, I
just napped, watched movies, and tried to gain back energy. I did manage to wash a few clothes,
which actually takes energy here since I wash them by hand, but that took it
all out of me so I called it a day.
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| My multi-trashcan set up---food waste, plastics, paper all separate. |
Oh, and I cleaned my house a bit, including the fun task of
burning my toile paper. There is
not trash collection here so the system is as follows: organic waste—you
compost, plastics, paper, etc.—I collect and hand over to Aniceto (not sure
what he does with it), and toile paper—well, you burn it! We also burnt our
trash in Paraguay, and anyone who has ever lived somewhere that they do this
knows the distinct smell of burning trash that hits around 5 or 6 pm every
evening. I made my way to the TP
burning pit and was too scared to do it alone so I asked 2 construction workers
(who are building a house next door) to help me. Nothing like burning someone else’s used toilet paper for
them for a first meeting! I was
glad they had strong stomachs ‘cuz mine isn’t that great to begin with and after a night like mine, I
wasn’t sure I could last throughout the burning. Gross, gross, gross! I’m still not sure what caused the food
poisoning--there are too many “could be’s” like the water or
fruits/vegetables. Since I’m not
giving up water or fruits and veggies anytime soon, I’ve convinced myself that
it was the shake I had before my nap since the next day the milk smelled
bad. So there we have it, I poisoned
myself. Way to go, Dan.
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