Lastnight as we were brushing our teeth outside we were watching the big flashes of lightning and listening to the thunder over the mountains in the distance. It was really bright and nice to watch. We got into bed ( naughty naughty sharing a bed) and were just nodding off when the rain started. It was so loud it was a little bit scary! Liam even got up to check water wasn't coming in to the room because we're not that sheltered from the elements with all the gaps at the top and bottom of the doors and windows. They just have little holes punched through them and normally it's pitch black, even in the morning very little light gets through. But lastnight every time the lightning went the whole room lit up which was quite eerie. I kept expecting lightning to light up the room and a big cockroach or spider be on the net right in front of my face!
When I woke up later it had stopped raining, I went out to the toilet and the place looked like a bomb had hit it, all the stuff that had been hanging up was all over the floor and everything was soaked with leaves and mud everywhere. I squatted for my pee, participating in my little ant bullseye game I like to play now when there's ants in the hole. Got one, ha! When I finished I turned to get the water and I nearly pood my pants, a massive spider was just lurking right by my face. It made me shudder thinking how close it had been the whole time I'd been there. I tried to block it out of my vision, flushed and went back to the room, spying another cockroach on the wall next to the bed as I got back in under the net.
I woke up at about 7am with both physical and emotional pain this morning. Physical pain from the third morning in a row I've woken with a poorly head and sore throat, and emotional pain from hearing sita grinding those god damn lentils for dal baht in the kitchen. Bless her she works so hard all day doing washing, cleaning, cooking, gardening, sorting the animals and she's up making all of our breakfast in the morning too. But the sound of that grinding and knowing what's being prepared sets me on edge now!
It had already been decided i wasnt doing the grass cutting, but I decided I wasn't going in to the centre today, it's a half day anyway so I wouldn't be teaching after the medical centre. I've been really tired and low on energy the last few days. Liam thinks its from the food not having some of the crap we usually eat like salt and sugar and my body has slumped. Not a good thing really as it must mean my body is a bit addicted to crap if that's the case.
Stayed in bed a bit longer than usual before going out for chia and biscuits. The view was lovely today, it was clear for the first time in days. I wrapped myself up in my Shawl and enjoyed sitting on the porch sipping chia whilst Liam went to say hello to his livestock friends and trying to take pictures of himself with them for a while. After dal baht Liam went off to the school by himself and I stayed here. I sorted out a few of my things, fixed my bag and did a load of washing that took me about an hour. It really tired me out! I then just napped and lounged around sneaking a few biscuits now and then and digging out the paracetamol and vitamins to prepare for the next few days.
Sita brought me some noodles at about 2pm, so i went outside to eat them and she was feeling my head looking all concerned and signalling for me to eat and drink the water she was giving me. I had the day here to try and rest due to feeling so worn out all of the time and yes I have a headache and sore throat but I'm not so ill that i should be worried about so it felt a bit odd. It was even more odd with hari came and took one of my headscarves, soaked it in water and told me to put it over my head. It's really nice how they're trying to make sure I'm ok. After munching on some biscuits and lounging around for a few hours I actually feel slightly better apart from the sore throat...how much of this is psychological?? Maybe Liam's right about the sugar, I don't know.
Ehn text back today and said we are leaving for the trek a couple of days early as requested. I'm actually a bit gutted now as we had planned out our last few days and we're 2 days shorter now! It will be good to be on the move again though as we're both getting a bit restless and I think we've seen all that we would see here now. Liam got back about 2.30 and played on his iPad a bit then played cards. Hes has a good day in class today doing an 'olympics day' with sweets for prizes. I've really enjoyed just lying on the bed with the door open, listening to stuff that's going on and the sounds of nature today.
Sita made me a 'special batch' of rice today, apparently it's what Nepali make when somebody is under the weather. It was really nice! I don't know if it was just because it was different so the slight variation brought back my appetite but I polished off all of it and even had a little bit more afterwards. We still have no idea what was in it despite asking a couple of times, it was rice but slightly stodgier than usual with a yellow tinge to it. I joked to bibas that they had spiked it with antibiotics because they know I would never take any willingly but they'd probably have given each other some by now! The food also had a lot of onions in which is supposed to aid better sleep, fingers crossed. Im looking forward to a good sleep tonight and hopefully feeling well rested ready for lots of walking tomorrow.
