A week of yay and yuck ducks

Well I would have to say that this past week was a week filled with yay and yuck ducks. The yuck part of the week was that Saturday morning I woke up and I had a really really bad cough and I had no voice. Silvia called Doctor Henry and he said that I probably had picked up a throat infection from working with the kids at the center and he told me what medicine I needed and told us to go to the pharmacy ( I learned that you can buy a lot of RX drugs here without a RX). I laid low the next couple days all of Saturday and Sunday I couldn't talk at all and it was not fun! :( becauseI do have to say that being sick and such made me miss home and as much as I don't want to admit it I kinda just wanted my mom to come and take care of me because I really felt terrible. I do have to say that Silvia took care of me, it was such a blessing she kept asking if I needed anything and then she made me homemade chicken noodle soup, which was wonderful and a huge comfort thing that reminded me of home in the States. However, I finally started to feel better on Monday but not totally better so I stayed home from Guayabo.

I did have yay duck moments too! :) I went with my friends Luis and Pamlea to BW (which is one of my favorite places to eat here) and celebrated the birthday of Luis's sister Andrea and then after we met up with peeps from La Red to go see a movie. We saw super 8 and I didn't think that it was all that great. Then I got to hang out with the kids in Guayabo the rest of the week which is wonderful. It's been really cool to see that now the kids are getting use to me being one of their teachers so we are bonding more and more. :) One thing that I have found quite funny is that at first many of the students have trouble pronoucing my name because my name in no shape or form goes well with the Spanish language. I just found this funny because a lot of people can't pronounce my name in English either. The best and funniest thing was Silvia (one of the little girls) came running up to me and was like Senorita Suzie I need your help...you kinda had to be there but it was funny and I have no idea where she got the name Suzie. ;) I've also realized that the kids LOVE getting their picture taken...if they even see my camera case they ask if I will take a picture :)








I do have to say that in this past week I experienced my first bit of missing being in the US. It was mainly because I was missing my nieces and nephew, because they are just growing up so fast. My niece who is six months old said her first words earlier last week and my sister sent me this pic of her and it just made me miss her more!