Amoeba's with minds of their own

I wasn't exactly feeling 100% when I returned to Gbatope from my post visit. The bus ride from Kara, my regional capitol, to Tsevie wasn't particularly bad, I was just tired and feeling sick. My family was thrilled to see me and my little siblings began to shout and dance when they spotted me approaching in the distance. It was all very flattering. They wanted to carry my backpack so I let them although it took 5 of them to lift it.
My return was short lived as the next day I felt absolutely awful and after registering a fever of 102 I called the Peace Corps Health office and sent a car to take me down to Lome. There I spent 3 days living a life of luxury in the infirmary. There were air conditioning, hot showers, cereal, and milk that wasn't powdered. Katy, a GEE stagiere was also sick so it was nice to have her around and we watched There's Something About Mary which I love. I was feeling much better the second day but then my sickness kicked in again. I had plenty of time to read so I finished The Grapes of Wrath (powerful) and picked up some books from the Peace Corps lounge. On the Road and Getting Even, a small book of Woody Allen musings which is hilarious. I'm also eager to read The Rum Diary which Hunter S. Thompson wrote when he was my age.
My diagnosis came back the morning I left to return to Gbatope. I have Amebiasis. That's right there are tiny little Amoebas running around in my intestines. It sounds bad but it's nothing compared to when I got Giardia in Haiti. Paula gave me some pills to pop three times a day and since I started on it I haven't had anymore problems.It was great to come back to staging. I missed everyone. We're all pretty tight so they were happy to see me. The day I returned we were having a presentation where we showed our host families aspects of American life and they showed us aspects of Togolese life. It was great fun. GEE did American holidays and we did an American wedding. The wedding skit went well except I'm not sure they quite understood the whole garter thing. Which thinking about now is hilarious. After our presentation I got to rock my pagne complet during the Togolese fashion presentation which was awesome. I can't wait to walk into Harris Teeter wearing my complet and see everyones reaction.
Saturday night we had a dinner/dance party which worked out well. The food we prepared was delicious and I brought a couple pineapples for everyone and they were mighty tasty. You can eat the center here because it's soft.
One of the things we will be doing at post as Peace Corps Volunteers is leading PACA sessions with the community. PACA stands for Participatory Analysis for Community Action which is basically meeting with community members to identify needs and factors for completing projects. We did a practice PACA session in groups with some members of the Gbatope community and I think it went really well and it gave me an idea of how to go about leading a PACA session in Nampoch.