100% Better

July 12th: I woke up around 6:30 am this morning and was annoyingly still a bit off. With the safari only two days away (which begins with a 14 hour bumpy bus ride), I decided that it might be a wise choice to stay home from the hospital for the day. Whitney (who had been up throwing up during the night), Kitty, and Nicki (who's flight home was this evening) had all also decided to stay home. I had pringles for breakfast and spent most of the morning lounging around. But it seemed like I was taking steps in the right direction and getting better, step by step! By afternoon my waves of stomach pain were less and less frequent and I was able to join the others out by the pool!

Whitney and I grabbed a tuktuk to the Nakumatt and when I got there HOLY SMOKES all the food looked sooooo good! (Which I took as a good sign!) Interestingly enough, my choices were doughnuts, ice cream and apple juice -weird, I've never had much of a sweet tooth?? ;) But actually weird to be craving sugar after such a stretch of uneasiness! 

When I got back there was talk of a few people going to the local's market (where the people here shop for anything and everything). I waited a little bit to see how some food would settle with me and decided to join them! 

We pass this market every day on the way to the hospital. It is always crowded and this afternoon was no different. It is absurd to see fresh fruit and food being sold inches away (if not on a tarp on top of) rotting old garbage. Thats what they do everywhere here: the trash goes kaapuut where ever they please and they burn it, but it never burns it all up. Not to mention the smell of burning everyday trash is worse than you would think. And it lingers. Uf da. 

But the market was regardless really really neat to see! The clothes, shoes, kitchen utensils etc were all second-hand type and nothing was really that clean. This is poverty. One guy that was with us was on a mission to find some of the Kenyan soccer jerseys from the Kenya teams and was eagerly trying them on. I was much better off just looking around, taking it all in. Most of the surrounding conversations were in Swahili and I can't count how many times I heard "mzungu, mzungu" (white person, white person). It becomes our names here, especially in a setting like this one where we stick out soooo much!

As dinner time rolled around, you can bet your bottom dollar that I had not forgotten about my skippy peanut butter! It suited me just wonderfully! I was hyper from the fact that my stomach wasn't trying to self-destruct! 

A bunch of us decided to dish out the 300 shillings (~$3) to go see the movie X Men tonight! It was extremely intense and quite the film! The movie theater in town is seriously one of the nicest that I have ever been to! It almost seems a little out of its element! 

All in all it was a great day and I'm happy to say that I am fully back to 100%!