Alright, so remember that head cold I mentioned I had during my Peace Corps interview? Well, I woke up Thursday morning unable to open my right eye and feeling like I had gotten punched in the face. It was pretty disgusting so I'll avoid the gross details. Needless to say, this was more that a head cold. I figured it was a sinus infection that had spread to my eye or something, which meant I probably needed to see a doc to get some antibiotics to get rid of this crap once and for all. After much debating and whining to my family & Lexie, I gathered all the documents I would need and headed out to first talk to my study abroad directors and then make my way to the hospital. My study abroad directors made it sound easy enough and in fact, it was!
When I got to the hospital all I had to do was say I needed an appointment, tell them what was wrong with me aka point to my eye & sinuses, and then hand over my credit card. I waited maybe 10 min to see the first doctor who was really nice. I successfully talked/listened to him in Spanish and was able to get everything across! I was proud of myself, but that didn't last long because when I had to go back and get another appointment with an eye doctor the nurse was not having my broken spanish. Apparently if your eye hurts, its an emergency. The eye doctor I saw wanted to speak to me in english so I was ok with that, expect for when he didn't know some words, so I don't exactly know what was wrong w/ my eye but he gave me eye drops to treat the symptoms. I was also prescribed by the other doc some antibiotics, Allegra, and a nose spray. All pretty obvious drugs for a sinus infection so I was happy. I'm already feeling MUCH better so I'm glad I went ahead and saw a doctor.
Moving on...
Yesterday I went on a trip through my study abroad to Lujan. First we went to the Basilica de Lujan which is built in honor of the Virgin de Lujan, the patron saint of Argentina. Cool church, much more like something you would see in Europe so it seemed a little odd here.
Then we went to an Estancia, La Mimosa, basically it was a place out in the country where they put on dance shows and horseback riding events to show you what traditionally the country side of Argentina was like. The main attraction though was the massive amounts of food we were fed for lunch. TONS of meat!! I mean HOLY CRAP there was a lot of meat. I had my fair share of it, but I found that a good bit of it was pretty fatty. There was also chicken, salad, bread, and ice cream for dessert. It was a beautiful day so it was nice to spend the majority of it outside in the unpolluted air of the country side. I haven't posted my pictures yet on Photobucket but I'll be sure to do that soon.
Other than all that, I have mid-terms coming up this week and next so I've got to start prepping for those. But for the rest of today, I need to go get something to eat & read for my classes.
Love you all lots!!
-Amy
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