Before lunch, I wasn't feeling so well (stomach issues), so I headed back to our kitchen to get some pear juice. I opened our room door for Noah and accidentally spilled pear juice all over the floor in our room. It is crucial to clean up any food immediately due to the bugs down here, and if there is food on the floor, ants will find it VERY quickly. Noah got me some paper toweling and since the kitchen garbage needed to be emptied, we used that to put the paper towel in. Noah took quite a while getting the kitchen garbage, informing me that it was absolutely covered in ants. When we had the mess soaked up, I told Noah to run the garbage to the garbage cans on his way to lunch and that I would mop up the rest of the tile with bleach to get rid of any remaining juice. I'd meet him in the Comedor.
After lunch, I helped Luis David with calculus and we looked on the internet for a suit for graduation. He'll be graduating from high school on Saturday, December 15th this year and the boys are required to have suits and the girls are required to dress formally (generally in what we would consider to be homecoming or prom dresses). Then we headed to supper.
After supper I spent a few hours with Michell before coming back to the room. When I got back to the room, my foot was really hurting. I had gotten bitten by kind of bug yesterday (not sure what because I didn't feel or see it at the time), but my foot has swollen up quite a bit since. This happened to my arm the first night I got here as well. I guess I will have to be sure to really apply the DEET from here on out.
Noah told me that the medium boys were throwing fire ants at him today. I didn't think much of it until he showed me his arm, which looked like a bunch of mosquitoes had bitten it. I guess when you throw a fire ant at someone, instead of bouncing off...it clings on to you for dear life and then bites you. Noah didn't seem too bothered by it. I guess boys will be boys. He retaliated by holding one of the boys' hands on an ant hill. Again, I guess this is pretty normal for boys. He's shared quite few stories with me about his experiences down here and perhaps I'll have to share them here online too - so that those who might be a little nervous by this ant story can see it's just another day with the boys for Noah!
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