Yesterday was interesting, though. We had a guy come speak to us about natural medicines. There are people here who practice that and are supposed to be really good at curing things naturally. Some even use prayer and herbs. Some people use magic, but this is not a part of the natural medicines- this is simply magic.
A friend of mine got a really bad throat infection. He had a sore throat one day and then the next day was aching all over his body. He could hardly crawl out of bed. The next day, he went to the doctor, got antibiotics, came home and looked in his throat and almost fainted. His tonsils were huge and had infection growing on the infection. Sorry for the details. Anyhow, the doctor told him that with the heat and dry wind blowing around before the rainy season, a lot of people are getting respiratory and thoat problems because they�re breathing in all the microorganisms from the trash, dogs, etc... Thankfully, my throat hasn�t gotten to that degree, but it is still sore/swollen. Another friend of mine told me that it sounded like my other friend had some infection, that comes from mosquitoes. I can�t recall the name, but I had never heard of it. It sounded pretty scary. I also have about 5 mosquito bites on me. Claudia brought something into my room last night for the mosquitoes- some kind of rope or something. The unfortunate thing is that I have to sleep with the window open because it is so hot now. There�s a screen, but I�ve seen a higher frequency of bugs in my room when the window�s open, so I know that they get in.
Another friend of mine got bitten 5 times by a scorpion yesterday. It was biting him in his pants and he didn�t know what it was. So he took off his pants and opened them up and it crawled out and bit him on the hand twice. They took him to the hospital and he is in a lot of pain today. Talk about horrible. Now, I�m going to be paranoid and checking everything before I get dressed. Homework, heat, particles in the air, scorpions...I think it�s time to go home!
