Welcome to the Third World

“Welcome to the third world,” an American friend of mine who lives here said as I lay next to her in a cab vomiting into a plastic bag. So I have been sick for the past few days. PTL I am better now, I am about sick of lying in bed. We think it was something I ate, so now worries, I feel great and are very rested. I got a funny and encouraging note from two of my students:

Dear Teacher Crista,
I’m so sorry, Ginger told us you are sick today. I think you guys are not comfort in E, I know, it is difficult to handle a pain. We have a Japanese friend in AA who are basket ball coach of Solomon, and he was also sick when he came in E, but he adopte it. I think you guys will be familiar with E foods. We pr for your pains.
Dave and Solomon
PS We know you sick because American’s were defeated by Chec (Czech) on Monday.

For those of you who are American’s, you probably don’t know what the rest of the world is doing right now. The World Cup (it’s like the Super Bowl of soccer, except everyone in the World, except America watches) is being played in Germany. On Monday America played the Czech Republic and got slaughtered 0-3, which in soccer terms is bad. Our students have been giving us a hard time about it; we just ask them who the E. team is doing. That gets them quite real fast, because E does not have a team playing in the World Cup