Now and Later(those were good)

by Dom on June 20th, 2007

Ramble on…So Dom’s bored. Yes this post didn’t begin with “so” but it almost did. I’m hanging out one more day before going back to site just to make sure. Today is my eat-normal-day-and-see-how-bad-it-messes-with-me day. Sounds like a good day doesn’t. I’m hoping so. I don’t know what’s for lunch yet but breakfast was pretty fantastic. I was given some ham, so I fried it with two eggs and I bought bagels from a resteraunt yesterday so I put all that on a bagel and did that twice to make two sandwiches. The first two eggs I got scared and decided I was too inept to fry them good so I omlettized them…bad choice. The second sandwich I regained my courage and went for it. They turned out fantastic, that nice popping white around the runny yellow middles. Mmmmm. Actually found a bit of cheese for the last part of the last sandwich, which of course escalated these from excellent, to legendary. Yes I said it. I’ll say it again. Legendary.

Anyway enough of that drivel. My house is coming along. I need to find some good plants. I really really want to plant some Vidalia onions. I also need some vines for the porch and I think I’m going to grow some loofa in this big back pot I have my spout bucket draining into to pose as a sink. I think I might also use my “sink” as a seed bed to transplant stuff out. Either that or toss in some herbs and do it up herb-garden-style. We’ll see. I can always buy another huge clay pot for 150MK(~$1) and do that in it. I also might get a rocking chair built still. I haven’t heard back from the people at Luwawa. I need to go down there and talk to them, I just don’t know when I’ll make it.

So school wise, I’m thinking of trying to do like a monthly big science experiment one weekend. Purely voluntary, keep it fun and maybe even applicable. I might try to get Yorgos involved to help me explain the science and then we could do it twice, once at my place and then at his. A bit too busy right now to really get that started though, so it might have to wait until next year. I don’t really know what experiments I’d do either. I can picture 3L coke bottles flying into the air, but I don’t know how I’d make them do that or where I’d get these bottles from. So who knows.

Bacterial Dysentery

by Dom on June 18th, 2007

So yeah, that’s me. I was just passing through going back north from Mulanje and woke up with it. No idea what it was from either. I got peace corps transport from blantyre and we stopped at a couple little markets and I was like “oooohh, I’ll take some mandazi/samosas/chipis/bananas/meat pies/egg sandwiches/meat sandwiches… and then I got take out for dinner at this indian place. So who knows. Either way, I woke up with a massive headache, fever, and weak. So I called the doc, took some tylenol and waited for transport to the office. After a couple of tests, I just laid around in a room with a couple of blankets and a heater drinking water. Then I vomited. Like 5 times. So I was put on an IV. Took 3 liters through the arm without going to the bathroom once. Then my loose stoole became watery…yes yes, I know too much information. But I think it stresses the point. The doctor said I got dehydrated from sweating at night due to the fever. Anyway, 3 liters of Oral Rehydration Solution a day, 3 days later, I’m feeling a good bit better, but certainly still ill. I have to reschedule that summer school site visit, oh well I guess. That’s the big news in my neck of the woods right now.