Project Number 2 - Day 20 (Monday)

Alright yesterday...

For breakfast I ate a banana and coffee.

For lunch I ate soup and a piece of bread.

For snack I ate 3 candies on the bus because I was dying! And then 3 chocolate (from my students).

For dinner Ryan made this amazing chicken and rice with mango chutney! He's a really great cook!

Project Number 2 - Day 19 (Sunday)

I realize this is a day late but I told you what I ate already... Here it is just in recap mode...

Breakfast - coffee

Lunch - Juice, cevichochos, 1/2 of a pincho

Dinner - Coconut and passionfruit chicken over rice

What a day...

So no visa! We have to return on Friday miraculously with $1000 in a bank account for each of us. From what I understand we'll be canceling our student visas and extending our original tourist visas. Who really knows?! All I know is that it's always frustrating to wait for 3 hours and not have anything to show for it. Also, um I have $32 in my bank account. That might be a slight problem. We're working on a solution hopefully with inlingua, and if that doesn't work, we'll be knocking on some familiar doors =). Oh the joys of living abroad. I must say I hate these sort of things. Visas, rent agreements, moving, importing a dog, etc. I love the living abroad but I hate the arranging to live or leave. Its just too stressful for me. So hopefully, we'll return on Friday and we'll get our visas and we'll be on our merry little way to tackle whatever it is that may be waiting to stress me out next.

Side note - After having a year to decompress, I don't know how I worked in such a stressful job for over a year. I really don't know. In college I used to wait to the last minute for EVERYTHING! My friend and I had a joke about doing 'the printer dance' because I would wait to the absolute last minute to write a paper that I had to dance around the printer hoping it would print faster so that I could run out of my dorm to hand in the paper. Oh youth!

Anyways, I was feeling awful after we left the immigration office. I hadn't eaten, except for too much coffee and a little bread roll. We popped into a restaurant for almuerzo and I felt worse. I decided to cancel my classes for the afternoon and come home and nurse this headache. Remember how a couple of days ago I said there was a migraine just brewing in my head? Well it's still brewing. I'm having more and more blurred vision and more and more general cloudiness of sight and this constant headache. I came home and laid down with a damp towel over my eyes (courtesy of the best boyfriend ever). This was at around 1:45. I just woke up about 45 minutes ago, which means I slept for 3 hours straight. I feel so much better but my headache isn't gone. It's less intense, but still present. URGH!

So no visa and no Chuki tag, but hopefully still spending time with the Matson's tonight! I'm looking forward to it!

MULUB,
Taylor

Busy Busy Day

Today is a very busy day. I have to leave for class in 7 minutes. 2 classes back to back. Then we're going to attempt to sort out our visa situation. Pray for us. Then 3 more classes back to back. Plus a very long bus ride and a very annoying cab driver. 3 highlights of the day: 1. possibly crossing visa off the to do list 2. picking up Chuki's traveling tags 3. 'seeing' Mark and Toby tonight via skype

I'll write more later, hopefully! Send us all the good vibes and prayers you can! We'll need them today!