( 5:25 PM ) shut up christine
Loralei sprained her ankle in the jungle
and I stood there and laughed and took pictures because I'm a good friend :)
don't worry she's okay,
a healer told us to crush some special leaves and wrap her foot and the swelling totally went down. this stuff is no joke
another healer we met believes he has the cure for AIDS.
THE CURE FOR AIDS! but he doesn't have adequate facilities to treat people. All these healers are getting pretty old, and it seems like the younger generations are leaning more towards western medicine and natural healing is slowly dying out. What a shame
here's a clip from a Creole brochure about HIV, written for teenagers:
Get di Faks
Wah Buk Bout HIV ah AIDS Fi Teenaja
Ah haff wah rite fi b helty
fi hah fun
and fi knoh how fi liv wah liff widout HIV.
Sex ah drugs noh mix
Di sayfes sex dah no sex
Protec yuself al di tyme.
easy to understand, yeah?
anyhoo
in a few days we are leaving San Ignacio
this is the part of backpacking that makes me a little sad,
knowing that whenever we begin to settle in, we'll have to leave in the morning.
And last week a dog followed us home, I named him Chu Chu and it hasn't even been that long but I am so attached to him!
I knew it would be like this even before I came though
p.s. back in Cali I secretly laughed at people who wore Teva sandals, but I take it all back, Teva sandals are the way to go
Peace out
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