Thursday, October 12, 2006

This day I woke up feeling almost completely better, with just a slight bit of nausea, though I think I still might’ve had trouble sleeping. Shannon, however was not feeling well. She decided she still wanted to try to go to Dancu though because we didn’t want to miss two days in a row. It was good that we went because then the kids got the attention, but also not so good. Shannon was really not feeling well and struggled pretty bad the whole time. I still wasn’t quite my regular self yet either. To make matters worse, we got the worse lunch yet. The soup was naaasty with huge chunks of the gross rice things in it. On the side, not only did we get the usual moldy bread, but we also got liver and moldy fruit. We ate the soup and bread with greeeat difficulty, but covered the fruit and liver in napkins and stuck them in Shannon’s pockets. The kids were pretty good and soooo cute because they’d been dressed up really nice. Maria was working and she’s great. She’s a little insane, in a very excentric happy way. We think she views the kids more as dolls than actual people because she always dresses them up all cute and arranges them and hands them some random toy that has nothing to do with their ability levels and then just looks at them like they’re just a happy little picture and pinches their cheeks and stuff. But the most important thing is that she’s nice to them. Anyway, so we somehow made it through the orphanage and then just headed home. Shannon had a really hard time all the way home and just about threw up. We had to stop and rest sometimes and she had me go into Hala and get her some water while she just rested outside in the piazza. When we got home I waited on her a bit and got some things done. I couldn’t go to the hospital because the girls had already left and I didn’t get to go to outreach initially, because they went straight to it from the hospital. Later though, Shannon needed a blessing, so I walked her to the Villa to get one and Outreach was still going on. We were there for quite a while and I started feeling nauseous again. Anyway, that’s about all I remember for that night.