Mala suerte

When you spend half of your time in Mexico being ill, you have bad luck
When you catch bronchitis on your first week in the ¨communidades¨ you have pretty bad luck
When you then have a very bad reaction on the antibiotica they give you, you have pretty pretty bad luck

As you may imagine, I feel pretty frustrated not being able to do the things I want to do, maybe not being able to return to the villages soon
not having the energy to follow my tseltal classes nor to walk in the milpas
I feel sick and homesick, as the only good place to be when you are ill seems your own bed
and i miss all of you guys!!

What an unlucky combination: such an inquisitive mind full of curiosity and impatience with a sensitive body, that needs care and a slow pace!
But that is me, and there are things far worse in this world!!!
So I read my mothers Sinterklaas poem which makes me cry
then chat to Pieter for the first time in a month which makes me laugh!!
and decide that the sun is beautiful
and so am I.

¨Worry never alter a thing, despair nothing
who knows what joy may lie round the corner¨

Thanks so much for all your emails and thoughts. I love you.