The faculty retreat was quite a sucess. We were up north, by the coast.... BEAUTIFUL. The house we were in was about a 5 min walk from the ocean, and 10 min walk to the pool (hehehe). We arrived Friday night (yes, I got car sick....the roads got VERY twisty, and I was in a van.. bad combination). We played some games and then went to bed. Quite surprisingly, I was one of the first ones up! (6:30....with no alarm!). So I put on my swim suit and walked to the pool.. swam for half an hour, stretched in the sauna, and returned to make breakfast. Oh yes.... I made Green Glop, and it was a total hit. Mwahahah!
Then I taught them a round called "I have a million nightingales." By the end of the weekend, they all had it down pretty well and were singing it randomly on their own. :)
We discussed the master schedule and plans/dreams for the future... along with building camaraderie. That night I had to make a big salad for myself, since everyone was eating ravioli. :P And drinking LOTS of wine. I tell you what, that made for a VERY interesting night. LOTS of singing happening then..hehehehe. I started getting sleepy quite early (around 9), and in retrospect, should have gone to bed.... but little did I know what was about to happen.
At some point in the middle of the night (we finally started getting to bed around 11:30), I woke up with terrible gas, feeling the need to vomit. I got up quitely as to not disturb my sleeping roommates and sat on the toliet... unproductive. A few hours later, I had to get up again.... and this time got rid of more than just gas. :) Then again some time later I had to get up... and AGAIN another hour later. Needless to say, I didn't make it for my morning swim. I finally got up around 8:30 and ate a banana and odwalla bar for breakfast, feeling slightly better but still so-so.
Lunch was another large salad, and then we packed up and hit the road. I slept more in the car, which was a life savior for the twisting road. We stopped to eat, where I just had some watermellon and another odwalla bar. By this point I started burping a sulpher/bad egg tasting flavor. And the last time that happened, bad things followed.
By the time I got dropped off at my car, I knew I needed to sit on the toliet. Thankfully I managed to make it home just fine, but man was I hurting.
To sum up the rest of the night:
Poop, poop, puke, puke, poop, poop, poop, poop. By the end it was all water. Sooooo uncomfortable. At 4:30am I woke up, pooped more water, and decided I should try to eat something solid. Thankfully the piece of toast and banana stayed down. I'm doing MUCH better now as I write this, though still feel weak... and unfortunately need to go to German choir... We only have two rehearsals till the Singerkommerst.
At first I thought the gas in the night was caused by too much fruit... but fruit would NEVER do that. Clearly, there was something foreign that needed excivating. And a part of my feels like not all of it got out. I could still taste a hint of that sulpher taste when I ate at 4:30. Hmmmm.
And then mom informs me that I had these bad egg burps when I was a baby.....
AND I ate an odwalla bar, which usually gives me stinky gas... and it hasn't done a thing now. Interesting..... very interesting.... I was thinking something was wrong with my g.i track... so maybe this just confirms it? I have no idea.
I need to study for music history tomorrow. :P Listening quiz. Goodness I don't want to do anything but sleep and rest. World, can you stop for a moment please?
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