Well, okay, you probably shouldn’t send me
pepto, as by the time it got here I’d be back in the US. But I bet you can
guess what happened. Yep, I had ANOTHER case of food poisoning or stomach flu
or giardia or whatever the hell it is that I keep getting. This one wasn’t as severe as
the previous three times, but it was made worse by the fact that I worked
through it all. (Yes, this included running out in the middle of class…)
Anyway, the week was pretty much a wash due to being ill and the fact that I
had to work on Wednesday to make up for the day of work I missed because of
being sick the previous week. Boo.
This weekend my friends and I had planned a super-cool trip to Song Kol, a high
mountain lake which is supposedly one of the most beautiful places in
Kyrgyzstan. Well, they went; I stayed here nursing my stomach. At least after
four days of yogurt I’m back on solid foods again.
In a fit of boredom I did something I hadn’t done in a good three years: I dyed
my hair. Blonde. And not a natural blonde, but a crazy bright yellow. And
almost instantaneously I had creepy guys hitting on me through my window. In
eight months of living here, I had NEVER had anyone bother me through my window
before. Seriously, WTF is it with guys and blonde hair? Or with creepy drunken
dudes thinking that a girl is going to give her phone number to a strange guy
harassing her from the street, ripping a hole in her plastic window-covering
and trying to steal her cat? I ended up having to sleep with my windows closed,
which meant cutting out the ventilation from the cool night air. Sigh. Nobody
ever fucked with me when I had black hair; there’s probably a lesson in this
somewhere.
Yep, absurdity reigns.
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