Realism.
When I was younger, I went to see The Secret Garden with my family. In the play, the main character moves from India to England after her parents die. In one scene, she describes her experience in India as such: "I was always ill and tired, and it was too hot." This couldn't be a more accurate description (without the attitude, of course). After almost four weeks here, I would say that I have been sick about 75% of the time. The first time I got sick was really painful - my whole body ached and I felt horrible. Since then, it's sort of just been this constant stomach sickness that doesn't really go away. Sometimes its really bad, sometimes its not so bad. But, it's something that you deal with on a day to day basis and it becomes a part of your everyday life.
Ellen, Traci and I have all had the same experience with it. We were sort of laughing about it today and agreed that it would be nice to have one 24 hour time period where none of us are sick. We all meet up in the mornings and check up with each other:
Traci & Steve: How you feelin' Ellen?
Ellen: Pretty good.
Ellen & Traci: How about you, Steve?
Steve: Not bad.
Steve and Ellen: Traci?
Traci: ...Not good, guys.
Steve and Ellen: Oh, for Pete's sake.
The next morning, the same thing happens again, only it will be me or Ellen who is sick, or both of us. However, although this probably sounds terribly miserable to everyone reading this, its really not that bad. Once you get through the first bout with it, you just sort of deal with it. It's part of the experience. Unless you plan on eating just plain rice and yoghurt your whole time in India (which would be worse than the sickness), you're going to have to suck it up and deal with it.
(How realistic is my blog? I'm not just about the pretty pictures and colorful descriptions - rather, talking about hard-hitting issues and such. I'm sort of the Tom Brokaw of blogging I'd say).
When I was younger, I went to see The Secret Garden with my family. In the play, the main character moves from India to England after her parents die. In one scene, she describes her experience in India as such: "I was always ill and tired, and it was too hot." This couldn't be a more accurate description (without the attitude, of course). After almost four weeks here, I would say that I have been sick about 75% of the time. The first time I got sick was really painful - my whole body ached and I felt horrible. Since then, it's sort of just been this constant stomach sickness that doesn't really go away. Sometimes its really bad, sometimes its not so bad. But, it's something that you deal with on a day to day basis and it becomes a part of your everyday life.
Ellen, Traci and I have all had the same experience with it. We were sort of laughing about it today and agreed that it would be nice to have one 24 hour time period where none of us are sick. We all meet up in the mornings and check up with each other:
Traci & Steve: How you feelin' Ellen?
Ellen: Pretty good.
Ellen & Traci: How about you, Steve?
Steve: Not bad.
Steve and Ellen: Traci?
Traci: ...Not good, guys.
Steve and Ellen: Oh, for Pete's sake.
The next morning, the same thing happens again, only it will be me or Ellen who is sick, or both of us. However, although this probably sounds terribly miserable to everyone reading this, its really not that bad. Once you get through the first bout with it, you just sort of deal with it. It's part of the experience. Unless you plan on eating just plain rice and yoghurt your whole time in India (which would be worse than the sickness), you're going to have to suck it up and deal with it.
(How realistic is my blog? I'm not just about the pretty pictures and colorful descriptions - rather, talking about hard-hitting issues and such. I'm sort of the Tom Brokaw of blogging I'd say).
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