He regresado con vertigo :(

I have returned!!!!! Yep, back from the land of Southern Chile, and so I turned on some Tracy Chapman (thanks for the inspiration shosh) and brewed up some miel té, and sat down in front of the computer...estoy lista para to blog!!! I´m not going to go into the trip that much until I have pictures up for you to see...it´s better to hear the story with some visuals. In summary though, it was a fun trip. We went to several different towns. The South is very green and has lots of islands, trees, rain, etc....it´s beautiful. One town we went to had the feeling of some town in wyoming or lake tahoe, with a beautiful lake and huge volcano on the horizon...it was a trip being in some mountain town and then to have everyone speaking spanish..I loved it...not to mention that we stayed at a hostel with a vegetarian restaurant in it...best food I´ve had in a long time..thanks for the recs my friends. :) We visited hot springs way out in the middle of no where, underneathe the most beautiful stars I´ve seen in a long time. Allison and I had the entire thermal bath resort to ourselves because of the off season. Went to some other towns to...like i said, more later...they reminded me of Scotland, like little port towns...went to a botanical garden (yes, i was in heaven. Celebrated the Chilean Independence day, 18th de Septiembre with some chicha y vainas y muchas empanadas por supuesto!!!!! I actually came home early...yep..sick again. This time with a massive ear infection. I seriously can´t remember the last time I had one of those, but man, gotta hand it to the children who get them all the time....no wonder they scream! So, yeah, it hurt too bad for me to go on, so I hopped a 13hour overnight bus back to Santiago with Allison. Worst bus ride ever, but it was so good to be home and not on the road. Last night Seb and I went on a hunt for antibiotics for my ear (we actually got them to sell it to us without a prescription...no worries mom, no penicillan in it) Seb´s bro in law is a doctor, so we called him and asked him which medicine to get. I´ve never heard of it, it´s called Clindamicina..not sure if it has that name in English too. oh well, I don´t care, seriously my ear is horrible...I´m desperate. This morn I woke up with sangre (blood) coming out of it, so yeah, it´s not fun. Sometime this weekend Seb is going to take me to see his bro and have him look in my ear....so I´d really appreciate your prayers. Silver lining does exist though: if i don´t want to listen to someone, I can just direct them to my right ear (can´t hear a thing out of it), or on the bus, when all the babies were crying (there were like 4) all I had to do was lay with my good ear against the pillow and I could´n´t hear them, hmm...what else...my pain threshold is being built up, that´s good too. :)Oh, and I will ALWAYS appreciate the absence of an ear infection when this thing goes away...every single time I get sick I think the same thing...that I´ve totally taken for granted being well. Praise God for your health..and take care of yourself, seriously. alright, I should go because, in the words of seb, estoy un poco cranky. Thanks again for your prayers!!!! I love you al taaaaan mucho!!!!! :)