Unfortunately, I was still down for the count come the second morning at the conference. I stayed in bed all day and drank a water/electrolyte mixture that tasted like the sea. But I'm not complaining, I felt better and better all day until my only problem was weakness and the tiniest bit of nausea if I moved around long. The others were absolute dears and made sure I had everything I needed. They slept in and then headed to breakfast in the Roman Warrior outfits we'd rented for the second party night (which they hadn't worn because they'd been too tired to change after the Gala dinner). They apparently got quite a reaction from the other sleepy AIESECers straggling into breakfast. Mostly "Whaaaaa..." When it was time to go back, we piled onto a bus to Lima. I'm pretty sure most of us conked out. The others hadn't gotten much sleep that weekend.
The silver lining that I can take away from that experience is that I no longer have the urge to buy Sublime chocolate bars every time I pass a stand (which is like every twenty feet here) since it was the last thing I ate before I got sick. Sublime bars are a pretty sweet variety of chocolate bars with some nuts mixed in. They were actually one of the specific examples we used in one of our Saturday classes about knowing what's in the food you eat as a part of respecting your body and making yourself feel beautiful by your standards.
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