Winding Down

Well, Sarah left. The 5th day was wild with Sarah having what appears to be food poisoning. She had a terrible stomach ache followed by her seizing up. I had to slap her several times in the face until she came back to consciousness. It was scary but we decided to keep going to the Capital and take her to the ER there. The bus ride was about 3 miserable hours long. We got her immediately to the doctor who put her on an IV because she was severely dehydrated. She started feeling much better. We were sort of dreading the bill but in the end it came out to $22. Really makes you hope health care in America is changing soon. I mean we were at a private really nice hospital in San Salvador where only people with money can afford. But, for an IV with some meds and thats it, it seems like what you should be paying! The prescriptions where more than the hospital bill at $49. We rested up for the night and the next day we headed to the beach to relax for 3 days. Almost as soon as we got there, we met a very good looking English traveller. We subsequently spent the nearly the entire time at the beach hanging out with him and my bf. We had a great, lazy time and had absolutely no plans. We napped when we wanted, we ate when we got hungry, and spent countless hours in the pool. We even ended the beach trip with a homemade shrimp dinner. We ran into a shrimper selling his goods to the restaurants and bought about 3 lbs from him. It was perfect.

Thursday we took our time leaving the beach and made our way back to the Capital. We did a sushi feast then went to a nice bar (Englishman still in tow). Friday morning we got up early and Sarah went back to the States.

That afternoon we took the Englishman back to our sites to show him the "real" El Salvador. On the way back though, the AC was on like 50 degrees. This usually isn't that bad except it wasn't even hot outside so I caught a terrible cold. All day yesterday we were showing the Brit around and I was sneezing and disgusting. My bf told me this morning that I smelled like a sick person. Sweet.

I finally got some sleep last night which was remarkable since the town had a baile last night. I usually hang out on those nights but my body needed lots of sleep which it thankfully got. This whole next week is Agostinas, the week long vacation period for all of Central America. No schools, no mayor's office....just sleep and rest.