Okay the story of my eye: I woke up multiple times through the night (last Wednesday night) with my eye watering and stinging. My nose was super runny and I had a pretty bad headache. When I got up Thursday morning, my head was killing and I couldn't open my eye. It was very sensitive to light and quite painful. Jacob (a pre-med student that we have dubbed Team Doctor) and Raymon (a Country Director) did what they could for my eye. They gave me a blessing as well! I love the priesthood! I ended up staying home for most of Thursday since I couldn't see. I wore an eye patch and everyone called my Captain Cyd and said that I needed to get a parrot.It seemed to be getting worse. All through the night I was groaning and holding my head as if that would stop the severe pain I was feeling. Multiple times I almost woke up the boys to take me to the hospital. Around 5:30 am I was so exhausted I finally fell asleep but ended up waking two more times before 7:00. I finally went out to see if the boys were up yet. They had just gotten up and I expressed the extreme pain I was feeling. They looked at my eye and took me straight to the hospital. We went to the public hospital in San Ignacio- we had to wait for hours but the visit, ointment, and my antibiotic were all free. We had to go to the pharmacy to pick up my prescription pain killer, but the costs were low. The nurse put ointment in my eye and I was in so much pain! I just started crying- Raymon did his best to comfort me :) The boys got me home quickly and I pretty mush slept for the next two days. I wandered blindly around the house. We did get to go out for ice cream- but Jake held my arm and had his other arm on my back to lead me because it was too painful to keep my other eye open. I also missed the Saturday vacation day- everyone went on this cool hike and swimming in a cool river. I was sad I missed it...Jake has just been putting ointment in my eye every eight hours and I'm at about 90% now!!! I'm so happy!! I can open my eye and kind of see- everyone keeps complimenting me on how pretty my eyes are and that I'm smiling. I told them that I smiled while my eye hurt but they said it was a sad smile...they can see that i am actually happy. :) SO...you got the basic overview of what I had been working on. Now for this week: Monday was a national holiday (Queen Elizabeth's Birthday) we went tubing down a river with this guy named Marcus. He is from the states but moved down here with his wife and started a small resort. It isn't luxurious- it is the back woods or we would say jungles..very chill and fun place. On the river there were spots to rope swing and cliff jump. Everyone in the group did it- except me- I didn't want anything to get in my eye or set me back anymore so I took some sweet photos instead. After tubing everyone except Wendy danced in our living room. I taught Calvin the cha cha and then we did the salsa and one other dance- we switched partners and just partied it up!! :) On Tuesday I taught my first computer class. There were two ladies who showed up ad we did the basic overview of the computer parts, practiced using the mouse, and started an intro to "Word". I had them type up what they want to learn/ get out of the class so I can implement that to my lesson plans. Later on Tuesday night I taught my first piano lesson in Belize. I was suppose to have 8 students. Only the branch president showed up. He told me he was learning though so I did a lesson with him and I'm now teaching him privately before the other students come. I'm excited. It is so much easier to teach one-on-one and he learns fast so this is going to be great. Tuesday was a big day for firsts for our team...Jake and Raymon are teaching an institute class. Jake will teach on Tuesday's and Raymon on Thursdays. Jake taught and it was amazing..I learned so much and can't wait to learn more from him. I'm going to take advantage of living with him and try to study scriptures or something to learn as much as possible- he is so smart. Later that night Jake, Melissa, Dominique and I went on a walk. They wanted to wander around some Myan ruins but I thought that would be illegal because during the day you have to pay- they argued that there are no signs or fences, but I still didn't feel comfortable breaking in- I convinced them to just hang outside and we played 20 questions for about 45 minutes instead..Believe me I wanted to go exploring but I'd rather not get kicked out of Belize! After we got home Calvin chilled on my bed and we talked with Wendy until about 12:45am...I love my team! Wednesday was very interesting. I was going and going through the entire day but didn't feel like I accomplished anything. We were suppose to be meeting with some villages to assess for the Soilet but the guy who was taking us (Alfonso) thought that we had a car and that turned into a mess so we cancelled. We went out to Bullet Tree to meet with another man about the soilet and it ended up pouring and slightly flooding so we were stuck there for a couple of hours. We ended up hitchhiking back home. Then we were trying to find a car rental place that was decently cheap but there is no such thing...each car was about BL$170 per day plus you had to pay for gas which is BL$10 per gallon!!! We just couldn't afford it- so we had to cancel our appointments for Thursday also. It was pouring rain when we woke up on Thursday and Raymon came to my bed and we talked with Wendy also (Wendy is my roommate as of right now...)we talked for quite a while trying to figure out Plan B for the day. Collet (the guy from Belize City that we helped at the Health Fairs with) came up for thursday to show Jake and Calvin around to all the hospitals and clinics. We decided to just go with them and hang out with Collet because he is the coolest. We rode around in his truck all day- super fun!!! We got to hang out at the Guatemalan border because Collet had to run an errand. We just played games in the gravel for about an hour while we waited. We had institute again later that night (oh I had to cancel my piano lessons and computer class for thursday- so we could be introduced to hospitals) Raymon taught and it was just as good as Jake's lesson. I love this gospel~!!! This morning I taught the computer class. I did an intro to word, we went through all the menus and she practiced changing the font and making lists. Then I had Aleida start on some typing exercises. We are planning our weekend- We found a hook up and might go stay at a beach house down in Placencia. I will let you know what is going on when we find out. Hope everyone is doing well. Send me emails! I want to hear from everyone.. cydnee_1@juno.com
Love you all!!
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