My voice seems to be back to normal after suffering from a raging sore throat, which turned into laryngitis. It started the Thursday before I left, was just a little sore. Stupidly I thought it would just go away. At least I hoped it would. But it didn´t. No amount of Tylenol helped. It got so bad that on Thursday night I stopped talking altogether and used a pad and pen to communicate. Quite comical. No one could stop talking about it the next day.
Another custom here is to not eat dinner until late in the evening, after 8:00. And the young ones are always out as well. It´s definitely a different custom thatn back home. There´s also a lot of begging, it´s not as bad as Romania but it always the kids, and the restaurants they come in to either don´t seem to mind or are so used to it that they ignore it.
We did it up the car race on Friday night. The actual race was on Sunday, Friday was only the exhibition. But the cars were totally awesome. There´s something to be said for the roar of the engines. After that we had an amazing team dinner at a nearby hotel. It was Friday night, afterall, and our R&R started the next day.
Tomorrow, sadly, is our last day on the worksite. We´re only working until 12:30 and then driving to have lunch nearby with the local affiliate and, I hope, the families. Tonight, we are having a nice dinner with Mariano Columbo, our site supervisor, and his wife, Silvia. Everyone is getting all snazzed up and very much looking forward to eating some fantastic food.
Speaking of which, our lunches every day have been provided by a gentleman who does catering for schools and churches. The food has been very yummy, but a lot of meat. I´m no vegetarian, but a lot of the stuff is fried and uses a lot of salt.
Sorry for the short entry, but I´m meeting some teammates soon to do some shopping. There should be one or two more entries before I return home. Miss and love you all!
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