A very rough weekend

**This is a copy of an E-mail send to my sister, it serves as a good update**

>  So as it turns out this trip is a bit less of a
> vacation then I thought it would be. But now that I
> am feeling better I can put things back in to
> perspective. It is still beautiful here and there
> are still things that surprise and amaze me out this
> island. As much as i miss the comforts of home It
> will be hard to leave this place.
>
> So I had a rough weekend, I had been sick on and off
> since getting here almost a month ago. The fever was
> new and making life really difficult I had heard
> many horror stories about the clinic here and was
> reluctant to go. However, after nearly throwing up
> on my professors shoes on Friday, I asked Cortney
> the trip director to take me to see a doctor.  He
> looked in my mouth and decided that I had
> tonsillitis, and that I needed 30cc of penicillin in
> my behind! I was none to thrilled about this news
> and proceeded to have a bit of  melt down after the
> first round. to make matters worse, we where having
> power outages on the island on Friday so there was
> no way to contact home and tell people what was
> going on. When i finally did find a working cabina
> (international phone) I proceeded to freak out over
> the phone.
>
> My housing is a bit...interesting. My family has up
> and left me for what they said was a week...but that
> was 10days ago. its not as bad as it sounds because
> don't really talk with them much anyway because of
> the language barrier. My biggest concern is that my
> room is next to the shop and has the big coolers
> facing my wall.  On a normal day its not so bad, but
> when you have a high fever and are just hopeing to
> sleep it off its pretty miserable. However, at night
> it cools off out side and so my room goes down to a
> normal temperature so its not too bad.
>
> lets see what else...im in a new class that is
> pretty challenging, Evolution. I suppose there is no
> better place to study that then here but it does not
> make the concept any easier to comprehend,  its a
> lot of biology terms that  i have not heard before.
> The Prof. is nice and seems to enjoy his work so
> that makes the class bearable. I am hoping that this
> week will be a little better now that don't feel
> sick anymore.
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