Sao Lao

We’ve been having a few foggy days since last Wednesday. A couple of nights ago we were getting a record low temperature at night time. I was wearing three sweaters and hiding under a thick blanket, trying to stay warm and fighting the flu. I have to confess that I was not made for cold weather. Of all the places on this earth I was born in the warm weather of Laos. There must have been a reason for me to be born there. I’m seriously thinking about moving back to Laos. The weather is great, well not during the rainy months. The food and the warm hospitality of the people will make up for the humid and rainy days.

Can you just imagine me blogging from Laos?

For the past two weeks I have been wondering when I would be the next victim in the class to catch the flu. I thought I was in the clear when I only had a sore throat and a little bit of coughing a couple of weeks ago and got better. I’ve been sitting in the middle of a class with all sick people and in the train everyday so many people were coughing at me. It was unavoidable for me to win this losing battle. I even sat across a classmate on the way back from school on Wednesday and wished him a better health and said to him that I hope I won’t catch what he had and will try not to pass it back to him.

Well, guess what? I woke up to a not so happy Valentine’s Day with fever and a headache that felt like my head was going to explode. Johan had made a reservation at a restaurant for a romantic Valentine’s Day celebration but I told him to cancel it. He thought I would be able to go out with him on the weekend. He was wrong.

I haven’t been outside the building since Friday. On Saturday and Sunday I was not able to keep my food down. I was coughing so hard that it caused me to vomit several times (5 on Saturday and 3 on Sunday). Trying to sleep at night has been difficult because the coughing kept waking me up. It was purse misery and there is no good enough medicine to make it any better. I’ve been getting plenty of rest though and drinking lots of fluid, taking my vitamins and eating lots of fruits and veggies.

Perhaps I need to eat better for breakfast and lunch. Since school started again I have been eating fruits and drinking soy milk for breakfast. Lunch is pretty simple as you can see from the photos. I haven’t been eating my spinach for two weeks now and this is what I get. Then again the weather has been crazy lately with rain on and off and the sun coming and going. I just want to be back in Laos where it is nice and warm and lots of people to take care of me at a time like this.

Ready or not I have to go to school on Friday. I missed three days of school already and can’t miss anymore.