Well I suppose it was bound to happen sometime... I have officially gotten sick... and it's really serious..... BIRD FLU!

No just kidding, but I do have a parasite! I had a very upset stomach for two days but did not really take it on.. I mean an upset tummy is no reason to call the doctor right? But then I woke up and started puking so I knew something was really wrong because I am not a puker unless I have drank too much Efes! Ha ha!

Thankfully our boss is a well known person in Sivas and has a lot of connections.. dentists... doctors... parliamentarians... that kind of thing... And even more thankfully one of his doctor friends recently enrolled at our school! So he hooked me up at the hospital and ran some tests on me and announced that I have acquired a parasite from drinking questionable water.

So the good news is that it is not serious and curable but the bad news is that I have been in and out of the hospital for the past two days hooked up to an IV! The hospıtal is not bad at all and I have been given a private room and the nurses are really nice to me... the food is terrible and the IV drip treatment takes FOREVER I'm talking four hours at a time...

The bad news is that because I have to be in and out of there twice a day until Sunday and they have to keep hooking up the IV, they've attached a detachable IV needle thingy to my hand and it has to stay there until it's done! That means I'm walking around with a fucking needle stuck in the top of my hand with a plastic tube that they keep attaching to the IV! I feel (and look) like Bride of Frankenstein! And people in this internet cafe keep looking at me funny!

Anyways so the excitement never stops in Sivas. Tomorrow is Republic Day so big celebrations and flags draped all over town, fireworks and gun salutes and all that. And I should be better by Tuesday when I leave for LONDON. So I guess other than being infected everything is just fine.

Today's lesson.......... don't drink the tap water!!!!!!!!!