Sept 8 2013

Sunday

I woke up feeling super stuffed and icky, which slowly went away. Except we’re all fasting, which kind of put a damper on things a little but we’re hanging in there [okay, Katie is. It’s 3 PM and I had to stop over an hour ago because the bug is still in me]. We showered, got dressed [I wore my new mustard flats], and walked over to Greg and Abby’s.

Unfortunately, we couldn’t get the skype-call church thing worked out, so we ended up doing our own meeting again. We’ve also set up plans for FHE together on Mondays, and we’re starting to plan out a trip to Xi’an for this 4-day weekend we’ve got coming up.

Katie broke off to FaceTime [like Skype] her family for a while, and then Abby and I looked over swimsuit prices and stuff. Why?

Because there’s a ton of cute ones here, some for as low as 50-100 RMB, and the majority are modest. And really cute [those combinations are pretty rare, okay?], and so the four of us are considering setting up shop back in the states with a few… so if anyone’s interested, let me know! Sizes will probably be limited, just a warning. And prices may vary…

Anyways, so that took up another hour or so.

I had been doing fine that morning, but after just walking to their place, I felt like crap the whole time. Part of the walk home helped, but then the last half was miserable. Katie had a hard time slowing down for me because I was going so slow [I’m short, it’s possible]. I came back and took a nap, which was great until I sat up. That wasn’t so good.

Here I am on the couch now, having taken some pepto bismal and hoping it goes away so I don’t have to take anymore because that taste is terrible! I had forgotten how bad it could be, yowza… 

Evening plans: Katie is reading and I’m probably going to watch another episode of Doctor Who [I saved a few for sick days, so sue me], and after that I’m going to get dressed and start walking to the school. Katie will eventually join me [she refuses to walk at that speed], and we’ll use the internet there and she can make a Birthday Poster for our friend Andrew on his mission, then dinner time!

I’ve had a few potato chips- weirdly in the flavor of baked potatoes, but it’s actually pretty okay and good even- and I’m hoping the rest of the food today will stay down. That would be pretty awesome…

But yeah, those are the plans for the day.

PS, I do not write my pain for sympathy, it’s just a fact. Personally I just can’t decide what happened and what exactly it is. Because it’s not quite food poisoning, but it’s not just stomach aches either, you know? It’s very odd… but hey, I was warned I’d get sick at least every month here and I was ready for that. Sucks that it started while I was out and with friends, but I survived and will hopefully be better in the morning. Really confused on what happened though, and that’s the only really lame thing about this situation. Ah well…

And now here I am, posting this at the school! Katie thinks it could have been the flu, but I should be showing more symptoms of a cold with that [I don't have much of a cough or sore throat, though my nose gets occasionally stuffed]. I mean, I guess it could be the Nile Fever or whatever that is... kidding. Totally kidding. I have no idea. But I walked with Katie to the school at a mostly normal speed and no longer have the urge to hack, so I'd say there's a lot of progress being made! Hallelujah!