You would think that after being sick for such a long time, and having surgery to alleviate the problem, I would either a) be more careful around sick children or b) have some sort of preventative method already laid out, including bringing medicine that I know works to foreign countries where it is both difficult and expensive to get said medicine. However, I am supremely silly sometimes, and I didn't think I would be getting sick. Oh how stupid I can be. Therefore, I am now sick. It is very poopy because I want to be well, and I don't like feeling lazy and tired and in pain. Also, I think that I like to eat more when I'm sick, not less like normal people, so the past few days I've had an insatiable appetite. Where are these huge words coming from? Wow, I should be thinking in very small sentences because I've been lying down all day doing nothing productive and before that trying to learn Portuguese.

So - last night (even though I was feeling sick and knew I should have just gone to bed super super early) I went to Pelourhino and listened to the drummers and musicians and watched people for a couple hours. They have a huge party there every Tuesday night, with all these amazing drum corps who do these incredible performances. I've never seen people move like that while they are drumming and keep the beat, it was just....wow. Bon- you would have been in heaven. Seriously, heaven. And I heard that last night was a pretty low-key night, not too much going on. Surprising, considering there were several hundred people out there including almost everyone from my house. But, I guess it will just get bigger and better because that is where the bands that perform at Carnaval practice. Apparently, as February approaches, things get more and more hectic and complicated and expensive. Haha. As a result, my friends and I are trying to get a lot of traveling out of the way before then. Next weekend we're planning on going on a 3-day backpacking trip to this place south of here called Lencois. Tomorrow we're going to the Afro-Brasilian museum for our Portuguese lesson - hopefully I'll feel better by then. I think I might go up the street and get some medicine a little later.

More later.