Valentine's Day, Whoa!

So as you may or may not know, I've had a month long love affair with a little fungal infection known as ringworm. Trieste knows all about it, we're working through it and I think we'll be okay in the long run, but for now I'm on meds that make me CRAZY. So while Valentine's Day is normally a day for luv...this year it was mainly a day of rest and relaxation. To that end, we had several adventures I will describe now.

Adventure 1: COCKFIGHT!
I finally got to see a cockfight at my neighbors house. Cockfights here are not like what I imagined a cockfight to be. For one, it was conducted by two boys, maybe aged 8 and 10, under the supervision of Souwel (the 8 year old's father). Second, no betting. Third, roosters are pretty valuable so they don't do stupid stuff like attach razors to the rosters feet. The winner is determined by the fact that the loser stops fighting from being tired...at which point I say "WINNER!" and point to the winner and two young boys and my adult neighbor look at me like I'm crazy. The End.

Adventure 2: Awak Pah Marin Bork!
We went for a little R 'n' R at Awak which we hadn't been to in a long time. There were lot's of people, this place gets crazy on Sunday afternoons...but it was fun. We hung out with some friends, I got to cool off in the lagoon then we headed for dinner.

Adventure 3: The Village!
We ate at the Village because we were both in desperate need of some Cheeseburgers and so far the Village has the best on island. One side affect of the pills I have to take is an insatiable hunger so I ate a cheeseburger, fries, a broccoli salad, a bowl of icecream, and drank a coconut water. We read and watched the sunset. Saw some geckos fighting, mating, or eating each other (tres romantique) it was hard to tell.

Adventure 4: A Movie "The Book of Eli"
Okay this was a movie that I did not enjoy. I mean I liked eating popcorn and drinking rootbeer, and I liked the spinning colorful lights, but other than that, I can't really remember anything good about this movie. Except for its extreme improbability. I mean for one, his eyes never looked weird until the very last scene where he's on Alcatraz? and he's dressed in white? and it took him thirty years to walk west? and she was dressed like somebody from Williamsburg or Glisan and 23rd? And he rowed a boat half way to alcatraz with gunshot wound in the stomach before the girl from Wicker Park decides to help out? LAME!

And that's the end of out Valentine's Day adventure.
jp

This is the story of the eels who loved me.

Well it's not really a story about eels at all, but I'm sure that the eels in the creek behind our house do love me very much.

This is the story, however, of the last month of our lives sans water and other things. You might be tired of hearing by now how we haven't had running water for the last month. Actually I'm tired of it too.

In other news:
Item 1:
I got a wicked case of ring worm. I'm not sure where I got it. All I know is that I thought that I had the worst peeling sunburn in history. So now I have to take a prescription to get rid of a fungal infection that is feeding off my dead skin cells. It's gross. Also, the pills I have to take may damage my liver. So that's awesome.

Item 2:
For the last few days there have been 40 knot wind gusts all over Pohnpei. I actually have no idea what 40 knots is, but I do know that I thought that our roof was going to get ripped off a couple of times last night. It also means that there have been huge ocean swells on one of the passes on the reef. They were predicting 20-30 foot waves and surfers were flying from all over to kill themselves. Part of the northern reef will probably be damaged in the process of being tormented by the ocean. I guess that's life.

Item 3:
We've made it 8 months on this little island. Crazy.

That's all.