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Apr. 7th, 2014 11:40 pmI celebrated the last day of the incubation period of Dengue Fever by beginning my rough sort of photos from the trip where I could have picked it up! Ok, I'm kidding. 99% kidding. But malaria has a little while to go yet.
I really expect the worst of the lasting health consequences to be this awful, awful itching I've been dealing with since the last couple days of the trip. It's all over my lower legs, where bugs were biting me while I slept. If I could OD on topical Benadryl, I'd be a dead person.
Anyway, I'm sorting the photos by subject rather than chronologically. That seems to be the best way to make them into something manageable to select from for the presentation the group will be doing at school, as well as to pick out the ones that Schools for Chiapas would be interested in. I made it through 2000; I'll do the next batch later.
Many of them are sadly mediocre. I don't have a lot of experience at photographing landscapes and scenery. I'm pretty happy with a lot of the mural painting photos, and I'm excited about sharing some of them later on. But most of my pictures of the amazing scenery we were treated to don't really do the place justice. I do have a group I'm pretty pleased with; here's one of them.
But my story won't get to Jol Ja until the third day in. It starts out on a plane trip from Chicago to Mexico City, and continues in another one from there to Villa Hermosa. I was nervous. I hadn't flown since 1994.
But it's getting late, and I don't think I can spend the time on writing the trip up that I'd like to right now. I've decided that I'm going to stay home this weekend instead of attending the Central States Anthropological Society conference in Normal. (Yes, the town really is called Normal. It's named after a significant normal school that was nearby. Can you imagine a bunch of anthropologists meeting up somewhere called Normal? It's hard to imagine a more ill-suited toponym!) I'm going to work on papers, get photos cleaned up for school, clean up my space a bit, and hopefully review my notes and write a bit about my trip.
For now, *yawns*, bed.
I really expect the worst of the lasting health consequences to be this awful, awful itching I've been dealing with since the last couple days of the trip. It's all over my lower legs, where bugs were biting me while I slept. If I could OD on topical Benadryl, I'd be a dead person.
Anyway, I'm sorting the photos by subject rather than chronologically. That seems to be the best way to make them into something manageable to select from for the presentation the group will be doing at school, as well as to pick out the ones that Schools for Chiapas would be interested in. I made it through 2000; I'll do the next batch later.
Many of them are sadly mediocre. I don't have a lot of experience at photographing landscapes and scenery. I'm pretty happy with a lot of the mural painting photos, and I'm excited about sharing some of them later on. But most of my pictures of the amazing scenery we were treated to don't really do the place justice. I do have a group I'm pretty pleased with; here's one of them.
But my story won't get to Jol Ja until the third day in. It starts out on a plane trip from Chicago to Mexico City, and continues in another one from there to Villa Hermosa. I was nervous. I hadn't flown since 1994.
But it's getting late, and I don't think I can spend the time on writing the trip up that I'd like to right now. I've decided that I'm going to stay home this weekend instead of attending the Central States Anthropological Society conference in Normal. (Yes, the town really is called Normal. It's named after a significant normal school that was nearby. Can you imagine a bunch of anthropologists meeting up somewhere called Normal? It's hard to imagine a more ill-suited toponym!) I'm going to work on papers, get photos cleaned up for school, clean up my space a bit, and hopefully review my notes and write a bit about my trip.
For now, *yawns*, bed.
