*sigh* Someday I would like to know what "good health" feels like in Mexico. I am surprised that I am still sick after two weeks. And it's nothing serious enough to seek treatment, it's just annoying and a bit of a damper on my energy and enthusiasm more than anything.

Great news! I have a morning walking buddy! One of my classmates and I took a nice power-walk this morning and clucked like hens around San Anton. What a difference it makes to have a partner.
More Spanish class today and I felt like my brain was going to collapse from exhaustion. Learning a different language is kind of funny, because it seems like it should be easy, but really so much is contextual that it's really a different mode of thought than I am used to. I look forward to the day when it just "flows." Right now, it is more like "trudging along." But, the idea of Spanish someday seeming simple gives me hope.
I bought my first jewelry item today on my break at school: beautiful hand-carved wooden earrings brought to us by a local artisan. I didn't bring jewelry with me, except my AIDs bracelet and my Mary pendant, so it was fun (in a materialistic sort of way) to have something new.
Lunch, debriefing of the Embassy trip, and I am having fevers, nausea and feeling like I need to have the pressure drained out of my brain. It's not entirely pleasant, but I've been through worse and am not going to dwell on something that I can't change in this exact moment.
I talked to Sakshi today (more like rambled off some of my recent frusteration and insecurities). I am so glad that I can talk to people back home, but feel awful that I haven't been too positive these days. As I have said, I am not defeated and I am quite certain that I am learning a lot, which probably explains the fatigue and lack of clarity to some extent. One day, I will make sense of this, and if not, I still believe this is good for me.
I have been studying for almost three hours and am looking forward to a brutal aerobics class.
More than anything, I am looking forward to some decent sleep tonight...
Peace.