13 Feb: Trouble

Brayn got up an impressive four times during the night to go to the bathroom. I myself chose not to move for fear of stirring the nausea. When I finally did move, my fears were confirmed and I was nauseous all morning. I went to the teachers office and tried to figure out my schedule, but it proved difficult when I could not understand the woman who was currently teaching most of the science classes. After struggling to figure that out for about a half hour, I went back to our room and finally threw up. Perhaps I should take it easy today. Brayn and I spent most of this day laying down, exchanging trips to the bathroom, and not eating. We talked about the overwhelming feeling of having pretty much no idea what was expected of us while we were here. I was worried about the language barrier between myself and the science teacher, and in order to calm myself down I listened to Toto a couple times. Brayn, at this point, i think is just trying to get through the minutes.

That night I talked with Mr. Kilinga and Mr. Kisava about which classes would be best for me to teach, and we came to agree that form II and form III (like high school sophomores and juniors) biology would be best. Its a relief to have a better idea of what I'll be doing now, and the fact that I wont have to struggle through another conversation with the science teacher is a nice stress reliever as well. I think tomorrow will be a better day.

Inset: Where we spent most of our night and day.

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