August 12: Hofstatder's Law states that everything takes longer than you expect even when you take into account Hofstadter's law. We woke up early so we could buy a phone and get breakfast. We got neither because of having to race to catch our bus to Ojuelos (just barely).
August 13: I rode on a cart pulled by a donkey. I weeded some grass to beautify the local clinic. I hiked up a mountain to get cell phone reception--or would have, if there were reception. That made a boring day sound interesting.
August 14: They sell a ton of Lay's chips here. Pepsi Co. is omnipresent, even in La Vaquita, where Pepsi is a favorite drink. We went to a wedding and met some guys who lived in Michigan for a while and picked up some English. They wanted to set me up to dance with a local.
August 15: We went to a fiesta that celebrated the Assumption of Mary. They had an interesting fireworks display, but it's hard to describe. You'd just have to see it. Otherwise, it was just like an American carnival (with bumper cars, games, lots of little stores, pizza and chips and similar lighting). Ah, the diversity of human experience.
August 16: We played basketball with Mento and Carla, then played some card games. Why didn't we do this earlier?
August 17: Muy infermo.
August 18: I became obsessed with plain Ruffles on this day. Now every day I try to eat one bag.
August 19: I'm still sick but we had to get in contact with Geoff and research some stuff on the Internet. "Vamos a la Ojuelos." I used the bathroom at the bus station in the morning and realized they had a sink but no soap. People just rinse their hands. On the 2nd of many visits I brought a bar of soap and left it there. Later in the day it had moved and was wet. Take that poor hygiene practices.
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