My first week in the jungle is over and I am back in the city for the weekend.
We always come back on Friday evening to get a proper shower and stock up on food and water.
This weekend I caught some kind of wired food bug, which gave me the worst 3 days of Diarrhoea I have ever had. It started with a fever breaking out in cold sweat and shivers and then my whole body was on fire. I felt like a torch, seriously. I had to crawl into the cold shower, because I think I would have burned up otherwise.
Then I my poo had the same consistency as my pee fpr three entire days, which I am sure everybody wanted to know.
It wasn´t fun. Today is the first day I am feeling better and have eaten something that stayed in.
My skirt keeps slipping over my hips, which means that I have probably lost some weight. I am sure my jungle family will take care of me putting that back on.
I knew this would happen to me, especially after eating meat for the first time in 17 years. But I am surprised it was caused by food I had in the city and not in the jungle.
Everything here is about bacteria. You can´t have long finger- or toenails, because you will breed bacteria under them, you can´t walk barefeet, because you will catch a parasite that goes through the skin. When you get a tiny scratch in the skin it will get infected and will heal very difficultly. It seems the hot humid climate breeds all kind of bacteria, fungi and parasites. I guess it will be hard to stay away from all of them, but maybe my stomach is strong now for new beasts ;)
Hopefully tomorrow I will go back to the jungle and finally start with the photography project. The kids are so excited to start with it. I am too..
More next weekend! Adios amigos!
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