Week 5 already?? REALLY???

So here we are once again. Week five is just about over which is weird. It feels like I just got here maybe two weeks or so ago. But I only have 11 weeks left. And if the remaining 11 weeks go as fast as the first 5 have, I'll be airborne and on my way home before I know it.

This week has been pretty uneventful. The most exciting thing I got to do this week was probably go to the Emergency Room...and it really wasn't an emergency. The only reason why I went to the ER was because if I didn't, and just went to the regular hospital, I would've had to wait forever for a doctor. But the reason why I went to the ER was because my foot was so swollen it looked like a softball was stuffed in it. At first, Angela, one of the co-founders of the ministry, thought it was a common Filipino foot fungus someone gets when another person “borrows” your flip-flops and sweats in them, and you put them on and sweat in them also. The sweat mixes and BAM!, you have the foot fungus. When I fist showed her my foot, it was only a little swollen, with the beginnings of blisters. That afternoon she checked on it again, and the swelling was getting worse, which she said wasn't uncommon. The next day, my foot had grown a lot worse. She had mentioned the possibility that I might have to go to the hospital if it get's worse. She and her mom came back in the afternoon again to check on me and the other kids, the kids have a skin fungus from the soap they've been using, and from the morning to the afternoon, my ankle had again more swollen. It was then decided that I would go to the ER to see if they could figure out what the cause was. The doctors at the ER had come to the conclusion that it was an infected blister that I had popped, and the reason for all the swelling, was that it was slowly spreading. That was on Friday, now as I'm writing this on Sunday, my ankle is A LOT less swollen, but it is still swollen a little bit. Unfortunately, I have to stay off my feet with as little walking as possible, which is getting very old, very fast. I've pretty much been cooped up in my room since Thursday afternoon watching movies, which may sound like fun, but let me assure you...it get's old very fast. I'll be very happy when this is over and done with, and i'll be able to leave the house...let alone my room freely. That's pretty much all that happened this week. Like I said, an uneventful week.

Oh, I've been craving every single kind of American food you can think of this week. New York Pizza, Bagels, McDonald's, I hardly ever eat there, so I don't know why I'm craving it, donuts, you think it, I've craved it.

With the wind,

Mark