Peru @ MX, again

It’s been so long since MX, one of the Melbournian tabloids, posted an article about Peru. Actually this isn’t an article in itself but a commented photo… anyway I found it today when I was heading home in St. Kilda’s train. MX use to publish sensacionalist shots form all over the world. The topic doesn’t matter and in fact, sometimes there isn’t one. The photo is about how in the Rebaliati Hospital is been run a serie of excercises for future moms. If you keep reding this site, you’ll be notcing there are no relation with the previous peruvian article which was about the non-usual frog soups, very popular in some areas like Tarapoco and San Martin. This is the nature of MX, whatever wierd story or lavish photo is always a nominee.

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A pathological week, I’m back though!

Cuz I’m getting some non-Spanish speakers visitors from now I’ll be posting quite often in English as well . These are definitely good news for some of my friends who always wonder about the content of this site and those expressions with echo like “locaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaazooooooo” or “moooooooostro”. It will also allow other people to figure out what the @#$% is a kangaroo sign doing in the middle of this site’s logo LOL!… anyway, I’ll tell more about the wired Latin behavior other day. In the last 4 days I’ve experienced a different sensation that I had already forgotten…. scientist call it “category 5 influenza pandemic” but we all non-medical savvy call it flu.

 

I’d start saying that it wasn’t my fault and some virus suddenly came into my body to cause a complete internal earthquake, however I’ll be honest with myself and fair with the level of purity of the Aussie sky so the truth is that I made a couple of stupid things. Usually, I don’t talk about what I do wrong however in this case I’m back to the well being world hence I does worth to talk about it in order to learn about what I should’ve done and what other can do in this case.

 

Last Saturday one of my friends had her engagement party (I’ll post photos later) and of course I went wearing a quite formal suit. I didn’t have shoes so I had to buy a couple but that’s other story. The thing is the party was outdoor event and in the middle of the ceremony it drizzled. That means that we had to decide between getting wet and eating cuz the food was just under a non-covered area. Obviously once you’re there you don’t care about some drops but we should’ve been more aware about the consequences of that particular scenario. There are more things that contributed that night but I’ll jump to the next cause and which I guess was that detonator.

 

The next day, it was around 11pm and I was at home doing some stuff for uni when I lost my internet connection. For whose don’t know… officially I haven’t got Internet at home but for some reason somehow sometimes a lost an foreign wireless signal turns up which allows me to get into the cyberworld with a low ratio of signal stability. That makes me feel angry hahaha well just uncomortable so after some research about the wireless scope and reading about radio frequency I found that if I bring the laptop to the window in my bedroom, open the window and use the laptop close to it I can get slightly better signal. This could be a non-sense option for many but it does have sense specially if you’re updating and testing the new interface of your personal weblog. Most of you must be laughing right now and wondering why I don’t get a proper internet connection; I’ll discuss this in other post, though.

 

When I did approach the laptop and opened the windows that night it was freezing outside and I felt like a slap of cold air. After few minutes I closed the window and went to sleep. Fair enogh, the slap kept with me a carried me to the worst sensation of sickness I had ever felt in this country. As a consquence, I went work next day feeling unwell and I looked like a zombie when I came back home. That day (Monday) I was absent at uni and slept from 6pm (Mon) to 7am(Tue). The next day (TUE) I thought I’d be better or at least less worse but I was wrong, In fact I had a mix of running nose, disconfort and I kept sneezing most of the day… which is worst, those symptoms could become to be something more serious… fever!. So I just decided not going uni next day and stay at home with heaps of hot tea cups next to my bed.

 

That really made the difference (and the pills as well) and brought me back to the world of normal people living their lives without concerning about toilet paper in their bags, just-in-case pills  and running to the toilet every 2 minutes. Thursday (yesterday) was my welcome-back-to-the-world day I went uni for my night class. I missed 3 sessions of 3 hours each in total. I haven’t checked how much in dollars that does mean considering my tuition fee, however it’d be better not doing so.

Now Friday, 4.52pm, doing my assignment for next Monday where I’ll be presenting a case of Information Warfare and Counterintelligence I feel 99% recovered of that crisis that reminded me how is like to feel when your body doesn’t work as you’d wish (besides when you’re drunk of course). I don’t pretend going back to that stage so I’ll be more forehanded from now.

 

Here some figures:

Money Spent: Not much, like 30 bucks between (pills and toilet paper packages)

Days out: Officially 3

What I leant: Besides the bad feeling of being ill, I realised that being at home the whole day is soooooooooooo boring!. I actually could’ve opened the window again to check out if there was any wireless signal available but…………..

 

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