Well it’s about time I joined in on the fun. It seems to be a rite of passage for fellows stationed in the tropics. When regularly consuming the fellows blog as an eager Kiva Fellow applicant, I seemed to often come across many of the “malaria! ugh!” or “a trip to the hospital in Kenya…” genre of blog posts from prior fellows succumbing to the fun and lovely illnesses that are new to many westerners in exotic locations. It almost seems clichéd to write a KF blog entry about a trip to the hospital, but maybe its just an elite club that I should feel honored to be a part of, who knows. Either way, after a sturdily powering my way through a healthy KF9 fellowship in Armenia sans frostbite, I was feeling pretty invincible as I arrived to Sri Lanka. And it only took a week before I was served a healthy dose of humble pie when I could barely move from my bed one morning. Six days later, I was still in the hospital. Who knew humble pie is flavored like Sri Lankan rice and curry? (more…)
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humble pie tastes like…..rice and curry?
Posted in adapting, kiva, kiva fellows, sri lanka, tagged adapting, boredom, dengue fever, hospitals, humility, sickness, sri lanka on March 3, 2010| 1 Comment »
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