The Whiter You Are , The Sicker You Get

My first day of school was only the start to my last two days.  My classes seem like they will be interesting.  The hardest class for sure will be Latin American politics the teacher is crazy.  In Venezuela they have no problem asking your political views before they even know your name.  My teacher seemed troubled when I responded I was an Independent but he seems to give the same face to everyone.  My other two classes should be good too.  All the teachers are really nice especially since they give us 30-minute break during our class. After classes on Thursdays we have this program called “Nuevos Encuentros” were we get paired up with a Venezuelan student learning English.  For half of the time we talk in English and for the second half in Spanish.

Thursday nite we went out to a popular bar to celebrate the first day of class and one of the other student’s birthdays.  As all of you know, I am not a dancer so the bar we went to was an experience for me PLUS the bar didn’t have any juice to mix drinks with… so probably wont be going back there too much. While at the bar I realized my ankle was hurting so I went to the bathroom and realized it was the size of a grapefruit.  Being the responsible person that I am I decided to go home, totally the next day I would probably need to cut off my foot or something.

Yesterday morning I went to VENUSA to show the people in charge my ankle.  The first person I should was told be just to take an anti-histamine and Ill be fine.  But then I showed it the director of the program and he freaked out because he never seen something like my bite before.  The part that I was worried about was that it was red, warm and felt like there was liquid building up under my skin. Hector took me to the doctor more because he was so interested in what the bite was than anything.  The doctor told me it was probably a spider that bit me while we were up in the mountains and I should take some medicine and Ill be fine in a couple of days.  So that means Wednesday was probably the best day of my life between throwing up and getting bit by a spider.

For the rest of the day I went downtown and looked at all the shops they had there with some people and then last nite we had a BBQ at the school with the Venezuelan students.  I should be thankful though that my spider bite wasn’t so serious because another student got such a bad parasite from something that he left today to go back to Minnesota.

Oh I also got a cell phone here, you can call it from Skype for 20 cents a minute.  The phone number is 04247181798.