Monday, December 15, 2008

Rough Couple of Days

I got a stomach virus on sunday morning........................................... It was miserable. I won't get into details, but it was a simply awful. It was a 24 hour thing, but I'm still feeling the aftermath at midnight on monday. I didn't eat for 40 hours, and I thought I would enjoy my comeback meal more. I pray that by tomorrow I'm good. Not much has happened here. I didn't end up playing frisbee on Friday as I had planned because I haven't been sleeping too well. I think it was a repercussion of my cold medicine, because in the ensuing couple of days I was getting up at five in the morning and unable to fall back asleep. For those keeping count at home, in the three weeks I've been in Jerusalem, I've had tonsilitis, another throat infection, a wicked cold, and the newly aquired Gastroentestiritis ( forgive the spellings).
Tonight was the first couple games of our Year Course Basketball League. Obviously I wasn't a hundred percent ( closer to 45-50%), but it's a three-on-three league with a fourth player as a sub. Our sub didn't show, so I had to play the full game. I'm a captain as well ( there's six teams, each team had a captain and we drafted from there) so I had an obligation to play. We had a small lead the whole game until late when the other team tightened up. We ended hitting some big buckets in the end, with me hitting the game winning three. I think the final score was 21-17. I had to throw up all game( I did so after the game winner) , so I had a little extra motivation in me. In retrospect, I shouldn't have played, because now I feel like garbage.
Looking ahead, tomorrow the sports track is having a group dinner, and later that night we have another flag football double header. We have a field trip thursday to Tel-Aviv which should be fun. My god-parents, Diane and Jerry Pergamit, are coming to visit their daughter Rachel (also on Year Course) and I couldn't be more excited to see them. Jerry is already in Israel, and I believe Diane flys in on Thursday. After that, only a few more days until AMSTERDAM!
Jakey G

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