Scorpions!!!

I'm doing much better now. I'm on antibiotics and they are killing off the creatures inside. I was sick since Thursday and everyone was very concerned they were going to send me to the Clinic for an analysis but the antibiotics ended up working. I still have a cold, but I have a few more days to recover. I've lost 10 pounds from all this--being sick, more exercise, and a new diet, which is the plus side of all this.

Will and I are enjoying our time here in Arequipa. Teresa, my host mom, and Tania's aunt is spoiling us like crazy. She babied and took cared of me like crazy while I was sick and she feeds us tons of food. She feeds me so much I feel like I might explode--but I feel like I should eat all of my food, I don't want to hurt her feelings. This is why I don't get how I lost weight.

Will and I bought cellphones on the 7th. My US cellphone did not work here, it was locked, so we had to buy me a phone, but now Will and I can keep in touch while we are apart.

And lastly, last night I found a "scorpion" in my room. We don't know what type of bug it was but it had pincers and claws and a tail and it looked like a scorpion--they don't have scorpions in Arequipa. Teresa had never seen a bug like the one in my room and later she asked her husband about it and he thinks maybe I brought it with my suitcase from Ica--the desert.

The End.

-Catherine,