Day 22

Day 22 September 5, 2010


I am still very tired today and starting to feel that cold coming back. I managed to get up early in the morning and go to church. Then I met up with Tamara and Ana to go to the street market. But something was not right about the street market today because none of the vendors were there…..Did I forget about some holy day? Did something happen in Rome today? We don’t know.

Regardless, I was so very tired from the day before that I had to leave the girls and go home. I ended up taking a nap and then doing some chores. I straightened my room, took out the trash, and washed some clothes. This I have to do by hand because the landlady does not allow us to use her washing machine. (I would be more ok with this rule if she wasn’t in and out of the apartment using this washing machine…) Not using machines to do laundry is an interesting experience for me mostly because I am not used to hang-drying the wash. I “borrowed” a cable cord that was sitting on a shelf and tied it across my bedroom. This is my clothes-line. I have a standing fan in my bedroom which I have blowing across the clothes-line to help things dry even quicker. Sorry Haila, there is no alley-way to hang my wash out the window!

I am definitely feeling a sore throat and upset stomach and am going to take it easy today. Could I really be getting sick again? Or is it all the ocean water I consumed yesterday?