Aug. 4, 2007 - Sick and Tired of Being Sick and Tired

I'm sorry you haven't heard much from Number One Son this week.  We (and he) have been frantically busy on business this week.  Then, Friday morning when Number Two Son called him, Number One Son sounded Terrible!  He had gotten an awful sore throat and head cold.  It was tough, but he sucked it up and went to the gym and to work.  When he got to work, hardly anyone was there, but they trickled in over the afternoon.  Honorable Uncle  and Honorable Aunt got in about 4 and Honorable Uncle called Number One Son into his office for an assignment.  He looked so terrible, that Uncle even parted with some of his secret stash of Tylenol Cough and Cold (a rare occurence, there are just some things that are hard to find in Asia :-)  After looking at him awhile, he said, "Look, the driver is coming to take you to the subway station.  Can you make it home by subway?"  Son said he could manage it, grabbed McDonald's for the third time that day (if you are too busy to stop and eat in, but you can't eat street food like the populace, just like here, McDonald's is the place). 

Honorable Uncle told Number One Son to just stay home Saturday and "don't make me sick" (He just got over a two week awful cold - I don't blame him), so Number One slept in yesterday.  In the morning, he called the leader of a Christian student group he'd been given the contact for (providentially another student in the online AP course he just signed up for is from his city!)  He found out where their fellowship was meeting, grabbed some lunch and a taxi and set out to find them.  Unfortunately, the taxi got LOST - really LOST and Number One didn't have a map, so feeling sicker and sicker, he gave up and went home.  Good decision, though he was sad to miss the meeting -- he fell asleep and slept for 12 hours.

Sunday morning (I know I am posting on Saturday night, remember it is Sunday morning his time!) he got up and was STARVING - so he went to KFC for taquitos.  They have three kinds - pork sausage, pork floss (like dried pork dust) and shrimp and egg.  He didn't order the shrimp but got one anyway and it was pretty good.

He's not sure what he'd like to do today.  He doesn't feel like doing anything, but it seems a waste to stay in on a (1) free, (2) pretty, and (3) not too hot day in his city!  He's thinking of going to the expat service, and perhaps taking the time to video the apartment and neighborhood so he can show it to us when he gets home.

Please pray Number One Son gets well quickly and has a profitable testimony among his family and co-workers.  His time is growing shorter, just a few more weeks; please pray for God's wisdom and blessing on our young man.