It's Official!

The highlight of swear-in was by far the speech given by Marcos, a fellow member of B-44. A central theme was illness. We did a dynamica in which you had to stand up if you have had any of the mentioned illnesses. ¨Stand up if you´ve had diarrhea (the whole room was standing for that one) a bacterial infection, amoebas...¨ and so forth. Then we got into the more obscure diseases... A girl in our group actually had shingles. A disease usually reserved for eighty year old men. Another guy was recovering from typhoid fever! Which I thought was a disease you could only contract while playing The Organ Trail. We even got vaccines for that one! And another guy discovered he had gaot after being injured during an escape from a three year old clefero (glue sniffer). He was told to cut down on beer... which might as well be a death sentence. Another guy broke his elbow. In fact out of 29 of us only three miraculously managed not to get sick. And oh my goodness I didn´t really think it was possible but the boys sure enough lost weight, lots of it. Guys that were already skinny to begin with lost 25 lbs! But thankfully they´re starting to gain some of it back. I managed to gain only 2 pounds. I escaped training with only a bacterial infection (i.e. bad diarrhea for a couple of days), but I guess now we can add laryngitis to the list. Because that seems to be what I am suffering from now. I´ve been getting over a cold all week. By the way, it´s really miserable to have a cold in 90 degree, humid as hell weather. There isn´t a fan installed in my room yet and I thought I was going to die my first night, but fortunately it´s cooled down quite a bit. I feel pretty good now, my throats not sore anymore and I feel more ¨with it¨ but I can barely manage to squeak out short sentences. I gonna google laryngitis right now and see what I can do about it. Wish me luck!



Damn we are sexy! All 29 of us made it through training! The first time in over five years.