The blasted ozone layer here - or lack of it!

G'day.


Sunday I woke up to find that I could not walk due to the sunburns that I had acquired on my legs from Saturday's romp at the beach. It took me five minutes to get down the stairs for breakfast. It took about 10 minutes (or more) to get back up the stairs after I finished breakfast. And by then my legs hurt so much worse that I said I couldn't go to church. Plus the fact that I was flaming red didn't help either. So I crawled back into bed while Morgan and El got ready and headed off for church with Helene's family.

My internet wasn't working or I would have blogged while I was in bed. I slept off and on until about 3:45pm. This is when I get a knock on my door from Morgan. She wants to know if she can come in - and that Helene and Simon were with her and Ellie. I woke up to find that Helene had been very adement in the fact that she was going to come over to HH to check up on me. She needed to know if I needed to be taken to the emergency room. Well, she checked out my face, arms, neck, and legs and determined that if the burn on my face was a little darker that I would be whisked off to the ER. I didn't tell her that I have KP (keratosis polaris - it's a skin disease) and that it was inflamed and would only last for about 48 hours. I honestly was a bit disgruntled at being woken up and wasn't making completely coherent sentences. I am not a morning person unless I want to be. :) So Helene then went through all of the what I should do and not do like medical wise (you know - aloe, solarcaine - which she had never heard of before and I think would be highly useful here in the Southern Hemisphere - wet washcloth, plenty of fluids, etc.). I found it slightly humourous because I brought my own sunburn kit because I knew that at some point in time on this trip I would be sunburnt. Lo and behold it was today.

I was very grateful that she showed up and decided to be motherly. It's nice to know that while I am studying abroad in another country someone cares enough to drive out of their way to check up on me. Plus this was a chance for her and Simon to see how we actually live here at HH. Needless to say, Simon was definitely not impressed and said so. But anyway, it was nice to have some unexpected company even if it was because I look like a lobster.

After this I stayed up and watched one of my favorite movies: Under the Tuscan Sun. It made me feel more at home here because in the movie the lead character, Francis, is living by herself in a villa in Italy. She's in a country she's unfamiliar with, knows hardly anyone and buys a villa and in the end she perseveres and has the time of her life. So it made me feel better about my stay here in Australia. After the movie it was suppertime which consisted of rice and eggs on toast. Then it was back to bed for me. I'll let you know how my Monday goes since we're meeting with the director of LCC.

Cheers.