A trip to the hospital

Hiya,

Well its Easter, so most of Santiago has gone away for the weekend, and everything is pretty much shut, so it has been a fairly quiet weekend.

On Friday I went for tea at my housemate Bruno's Aunty's house. Another Aunty came over too and one of his cousins was also there. They are really lovely people, who were very keen to find out what would bring me to Chile, and wanted to know all about my family and New Zealand. Luckily they speak very good English having lived abroad at some time in their lives, so the conversation came easily. I had a really great time with lots of laughing, and enjoyed their 2yr old black labrador who was full of energy!

Unfortunately I woke up on Saturday morning early with really bad stomach pain and vomitting. I don't know what I ate (as it was the same as everyone else), but it was bad. I have never had stomach pain like it! It wasn't abating so we decided to go to the hospital (big decision for me as I am usually the 'ride it out' type person), and they decided it was bad enough to put me on a drip, painkillers and anti-nausea medication. Of course my Spanish is bad at the best of times, let alone when I am so sick I can't stand up! Luckily my poor housemate came and acted as interpreter for me. I understand why I am living with someone who speaks English and Spanish now! Poor guy, he is probably wondering what has hit him. Oh well.

So I am taking it easy as I still don't fell 100%, and was in quite some pain when the painkillers wore off last night. Today is going to be about lesson planning and sitting still.

Degrees and things for Visa arrived on Thursday (thanks Mum), so hopefully I won't have to take a trip to Argentina through the snow to get my tourist visa renewed. Next weekend I might be going to some grape picking thing down south with one of the other teachers at the school. I still have to organise it all with her but it's looking promising.

So only the minor drama of a visit to the hospital this week - otherwise nothing exciting to tell.
Adios,
KiwiKaz