¡Cordoba! ¡And Argentine Hopsitals!

It finally happened.

Every semester...every semester since I was a freshman at Ithaca College I manage to become sick or injured once. Just once, but it makes up for the rest of my healthy time by being the worst illness or injury ever.

Some highlights:
Freshman: pulling my back out and a stomach virus that kept me from eating chocolate, dairy, caffeine or anything else that made me happy for two weeks.

Sophomore: pink eye and the flu. At the same time.

Last semester it was bronchitis.

And now...drum roll...

A cold and a urinary tract infection! WOOOO!

Yesterday morning I ended up giving into the cranky germiness and went to the local hospital...which I have to say was really well organized and efficient. It´s all about taking a number (from one of those red machines you see at the deli counter at an American supermarket), and the lines move pretty fast. It could very well have been the time of day I arrived, but I was in and out in about two hours. Quite an improvement over the five-hour wait-a-palooza I had in Ithaca when I pulled my back out.

One thing that concerns me is that the doctor prescribed me antibiotics without actually inspecting my body. I came in and was like, "well I think I have a UTI." And he went "okey dokey, here are some drugs. Give a urine sample and we´ll see in five days whether or not I gave you the right meds."

I´ve watched House. I KNOW that when doctors do that, the patient is misdiagnosed, then gets worse then the doctor says something snarky and then saves the day, when the patient is already on their death bed.

Anyway. I think I´m getting better, but I have to hang around Buenos Aires for the next couple of days to pick up the results from my test. Which basically ends all future travel plans, since this is the last four day weekend I´ll have before I go back to the States.

I´m sad, but at the same time ok with this. Now I have time to explore the rest of Buenos Aires that I haven´t had time for previously.

But last weekend...what a way to send off Argentine traveling. I went to Cordoba last Thursday to visit my friend Claudia. We were roommates together last year at the Charles Schusterman Leaders Assembly in Israel and kept in touch. So when she found out I was in Argentina, she invited me to spend a weekend with her family.

And it was amazing. It was wonderful to be able to sit down with a family for Shabbat dinner, and everyone was so nice.

Claudia, Guillermo (another friend from Israel), and Claudia´s boyfriend Mati and I had a great time. They showed me around the city, which was BEAUTIFUL, and I got to see how the Jewish community thrives there. There are only about 7,000 Jews in Cordoba and Clau seems to know them all. Since it´s a pretty small community, everyone sticks together. All the kids go to the same Jewish day school, go to the same three synagogues, and frequent the same Jewish community center.

It all REALLY made me miss IC Hillel. I can´t wait to go back to Ithaca and get the semester started.

I could have stayed in Cordoba forever. It was wonderful.

I was a loser and took no pictures.