Living to the fullest of my ability

I am feeling much better...I stopped the Malaria Meds for a couple days and felt like a queen. Then I started them again - to see if it is the meds or not - and had a fever. So...here is my game plan: I am going to take them at different times in the day - I was taking before bed, but maybe it takes a while for it to go through my system - so starting today I will take in the afternoon and see how I feel.
I feel like it is worth the experiment.


On a different note. Tara, my roommate, and Eve another house mate, are gone. Tara is in Canada, Eve in France and soon to be Poland. Now it is just Amy and myself. At least Amy is great and we get along really well...and laugh a LOT. For some reason when ever we go out together, we have the strangest encounters with Nepalis. (And we started Nepali lessons with Sudha yesterday...YAY!!!)
The night before Tara left we all went out to dinner...All the volunteers, Sudha (Patel's amazing and super sweet wife), Dhruba (who is my age, and her brother - we live together) and Didi (their oldest sister - it was her 1st time out to a restaurant EVER). It was such an amazing time. We were their for hours laughing, eating, and taking pictures. Most of the volunteers and I put together a photo album. They have no photos, so this was really special, and we all cried tears of thankfulness, happiness, and slight sadness as it may be a very long time since the family will have a chance to see Tara and Eve again.
When we left, we all went back to our house and ate ice cream with Amma (the mother of the house) and gave her the album to look at. She was what really made me emotional. She expressed how grateful she is to have all of us stay in her home, and hopes that we never forget her (it is impossible). She was saying that she must have done something spectacular in her previous life to have all of us in her life now, and she considers us her daughters. She hopes that we will all visit again, if not soon with our own families - and that we stay with her again. You have to picture a elder beautiful Nepali woman, who speaks no English, smiles all of the time, and will always look at you straight in the eyes.

I may get frustrated with Mr. Patel for being the most inconsiderate male I have EVER encountered in my entire life. For him not doing enough for the school and not giving enough time...time that is required for things to improve...for him to just TALK about the improvements that need to happen, and admit his follies, yet not DO anything to change that. Yes, I get very frustrated.
But, the students at school, the children in my neighborhood, and especially my family in Nepal makes up for all of that irritation - 3 fold.
I am so happy to be here and to live with these wonderful people. This is something that has changed me, and made me a more well rounded and understanding person, and continues to do so every day I am here.