6-13-2011, 30 days!

"i'm feeling a lot better. I have been with a small cough for most of the week but after Wednesday i had enough energy to be able to run again and be back to my normal self. I made the mistake of telling our neighbors that i was sick. Albanians have some really weird and crazy ideas about how to stay healthy and they always exaggerate things. Our neighbors are the members so she was even more worried about me so she gave me some old school ideas of how to get rid of my cough and i'm still paying the price for it. She got onions and graded them up into a bowl with roki which i guess would be classified as liquor and then crushed up an aspirin and then she made the son rub it on my back before i went to bed. It was so much they rubbed on me and then it was way hot and she made me wrap up in a blanket and fall asleep without an air conditioner on,lol. I laugh even thinking about it. My comp. hated it because our entire room smelled horribly. I woke up asap and took a shower but the juice soaked into my skin so even today after i was done running i could smell the onion and raki coming out of my skin,lol. That is the last time i tell an Albanian i'm sick =)..... The rest of my week has been really good as well. We had a soccer game planned out for a branch activity but it got cancelled because of rain and also because we are going to the beach in Vlore this Saturday as a branch which will be blast!! English is amazing still and all our students keep bringing there friends so instead of declining in students we are actually getting more which is cool. We keep working hard with the members and we don't spend a lot of time tracting but we do a lot of street contacting and just stop and create small talk with people while we walk. It's been crazy humid and it's getting really hot and i've been losing weight just because i'm not as hungry but i drink a lot more. I don't really know what else to talk about. I'm way excited to see you all and i'm happy that i'm in Fier and i'm loving the work right now."