Tuesday night I went to bed shivering uncontrollably, and despite my best efforts, woke up early Wednesday morning in a cold sweat feeling not so hot. I tried going to lab, but when my professor saw me curled up in my lab coat in the corner trying to stay awake he said I looked terrible and sent me home. So I came down with the first fever (or illness of any kind for that matter) since I got here. I made it two months before it happened, so I figure that's a victory. A bunch of people got sick for a couple days after returning from break - I'm guessing the traveling and lack of sleep was catching up to everyone. But, things balanced themselves out when I got home and found out that I had gotten one of my internships! After receiving rejection email after rejection email for the last few weeks I was starting to lose faith, but it all worked out. I've got a position of a research intern at the Southwest National Primate Research Center, where I'd be working under Dr. Patrice Frost, who is a specialist in primate medicine. I am so excited! All I have to do now is try to sweet talk my professors/the administration here to letting me go home two weeks early (the last three weeks of our stay here is dedicated to studying and exams, so this shouldn't be too hard) and I'll be sending my summer in San Antonio. We'll see how this goes!
In other news, I chopped four or five inches off of my hair. Well I didn't, but Nichole did. My hair was getting way too long and raggy to deal with in the heat, and now that it's short it's much easier to deal with. People that haven't seen me since I got here probably won't notice since it looks about the same as it did around when I left, but every time I pull it back in a ponytail I wonder where all of my hair went.
I'm all better now, and looking forward to spending a weekend with everyone in Suva. It feels like it's been forever since we just hung out with everyone and had the weekend to laze around and take care of the many things that get procrastinated around here. We're having people over our house tonight for a cocktail party before heading out which should be fun.
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