Update on Pink-Eye

This was me, this morning!

I woke up with my eye stuck shut. So much fun!!

After getting it open. 

Thankfully, I have only gotten it in one eye so far. Growing up, I always used to be curious about pink-eye. Now I can tell you from experience what it's like to have it. 

So what is pink-eye like? 

It's like you have something in your eye that you can't get out, it hurts to look around, your eye burns, your eyelid is really swollen and purple, the white part of your eye is red, and you are continually crying some kind of clear serum. 

When I say that it was fun having my eye glued shut, I was actually not being sarcastic. 

Having it shut meant that I wasn't crying, and it didn't hurt much either. I wanted to leave it shut all day, but Hannah thought it would be a better idea to get it open. 

Now, at the end of the day, it feels a lot better. My fever went away, and my eye isn't crying much anymore. 

Yay! 

That being said, school is out for the rest of the week, due to over half of the students having pink-eye (some are on their third round of it). The students were all very happy to hear that announcement tonight, but I was a little sad. If we can go somewhere and do something fun, it will be nice. Otherwise…I'm really tired of laying around in my hut all day. 

Now that I feel better, it would be really nice to go somewhere, like a waterfall.  

The day after we got to Sunshine Orchards, Sabbath, we went to a waterfall with some of the girls. This was the kind of waterfall that you dream about visiting someday. It was about fifteen or twenty feet tall, and the water roared down a smooth channel in the rocks into a deep, round pool at the bottom. We all got our feet wet at the bottom and hung out until one of the girls got the courage to climb to the top of the falls and slide down into the pool. All the rest of the girls screamed in delight, and one-by-one, they all climbed up and slid down. Of course, we Americans had to try it too. It was a lot of fun, although the water was cold. 

There are a lot of signs for caves around here too, and since I grew up wild caving in Kentucky, I think it would be a lot of fun to explore them. 

Other than that, I'm not sure what we could do besides visiting town again…(which is almost too much civilization for me, but they do have amazing, authentic Thai food, so it's worth it)