Sick and Homesick

So I found out that there are a few internet cafes here in Cojutepeque, a small city that is a twenty minute ride in a pica (a very large pickup truck packed with people and covered with a tarp in case of rain). So I will be able to post a little more often than I thought I could, although I'll try to limit my time in Cojutepeque so that I am in my community.

As it turns out, I`m sick again. I went here to buy gatorade and apples, as well as to check my email. I`m going to head back to the supermarket though because I found a recipe for apple sauce. This is the fourth time I have been sick with a stomach-related problem (or possibly fifth), and I`m pretty tired of being sick.

My host sister, Claudia, asked me if I what I was preoccupied with this morning. I told her it was nothing, but then my host mother, Maria, asked me if I was homesick. I replied yes, and she theorized that I may have been adding to my stomach problems. I think she might be right.

When I left for Ecuador last summer, I was very homesick in the week leading up to the trip and when I got here. But on this trip, it was so much more familiar to me that I wasn`t very homesick leading up to the trip and the first week or so after. But once the newness and excitement wears off, one gets homesick.

So I figured that taking a few at an internet cafe and then treating my stomach to some applesauce and gatorade was a good idea!