Workin with giardia

"Peter: I'm looking for some toilet training books.
Salesman: We have the popular 'everybody poops", or the less popular 'nobody poops but you'.
Peter: Well, you see, we're catholic...
Salesman: Ah, then you'll want 'you're a naughty, naughty boy, and that's concentrated evil coming out the back of you'."--Family Guy


Yeah, I had a lot of concentrated evil coming out of my backside this week. On Monday morning, I woke up with what may have been a case of giardia or something very similar to it. Basically, I woke up with diarrhea and couldn't even tell you how many bowel movements I had that day because I went so many damn times. It was terrible. I am not exactly sure what happened but the main suspect is bad water from one of the villagers, but the villager did say he boiled it so it's a bit of a mystery. So after a day of many-a trips to the pour-flush toilet I finally called the doc and got on some medication. I'm still feeling a little iffy but overall things are solid.

Anyways, I am in the city this week for a Peace Corps training. Once the training is done, I head back to the interior and I have a few different projects that will begin. I am working with two other volunteers on an HIV/AIDs awareness project that will culminate on World AIDs Day, December 1. I also will begin an English class and am working with a woman who runs the local gift shop, helping her with inventory and ideas for selling more products. There are a few other bigger projects that are on the table at the moment but they are in the preliminary stages.