January 13th - 15th

I finally made it back to Kamakwie and expected to go teach,
however my body felt differently. I woke up in the morning
feeling not well at all. I got up long enough to eat breakfast and
then laid back down. I spent the whole day in bed going back
and forth between being cold and hot. I was too weak to do
much of anything else. I haven’t been that sick in a while. Tom
says it’s because I stayed up too late Monday night and the
Sierra Leonean’s say it’s because it is so cold. I don’t think it’s
either (especially considering that it barely drops below 70 at
the coolest. Regardless of what it’s cause may have been (I
think one of the nursing students must have brought it over
and was so ever kind enough to share it) I was down for the
count. Friday was a little better, I tried to go to school and
teach but after one period I was so exhausted I just couldn’t
handle any more so I went home and laid down. I was pretty
much not feeling very well Saturday either so I didn’t do much
of anything. Thursday, Friday and Saturday night I had some
visitors and we watched movies each night I did go Saturday
afternoon to the orphanage and tried to play football. I needed
to do something active since I was spending so much time
doing so little, but I didn’t do very good on account of the fact
that I couldn’t breathe very well being still sick. That was
mostly what I was able to do following my break. Not overall
my best three days here.

Blessings from Kamakwie,
Ryan Brooks