Monday, 09, 9:04 pm

Woke up this morning to a eerie dream… I dreamt I had a little spider on my hand and it had big fangs and I tried to squeeze it before it bit me, but I awoke when in my dream I was bit. The weird thing is when I awoke I felt a dull pain in my finger exactly where the spider in my dream had bitten me.

It was about 6:40 when I finally rolled out of bed to get in the shower. Then Dave and I went down for the continental breakfast. There we met up with the other people from BYU – Provo and met some of the participants from BYU – Idaho. They’re all super nice people. Let me try to remember all from at least BYU – Provo and list where they will be teaching:
- Eric and Jeff: Fortaleza, Brazil
- Danielle and Rachel: Ecuador
- Jason and Kim: Fiji
- Dave and Ryan: Costa Rica
- Mike and Stephanie: Guatemala
- Geoff (me) and David: Florianopolis, Brazil

From Idaho there are another 10 people.

So we were not informed what the dress code for today was. At breakfast half of us (including me) came down in casual clothes, while others were in ties and dresses. To be safe, the rest of us changed into nicer clothes, but were later told that we only had to be in casual dress. Oh well. Dave and I, along with the two going to Costa Rica, were late because we were changing, so we got a ride from one of the directors, Mimi, to the church building where our training is begin held. The others had to walk the short distance.

The speakers today were very motivational and it was a good day all in all. I left feeling more focused and determined to do a good job and do all I can to help teach this program well. The speakers today were some pretty important people. Especially the head head guy over the employment service department in the Church.

At about 3:45 pm my red eye was starting to worry me. Ever since last night on the airplane my eye had been red. On the airplane it even crusted over with mucus while I was sleeping. When I woke up this morning with a red eye I began to worry if I had caught pink eye. So Mimi took me to the Insta-care at the IHC (Intermountain Health Center) and I got a quick check up. Had to pay a 25$ co-fee plus 20% of the total bill, plus $5 for the medicated eye drops the doc prescribed. I do not have pink eye, but rather just an irritation/infection from my contacts – which is what I was suspecting, but the mucus just worried me.

Then I met Dave at the Heritage Center to eat dinner. That’s were the U of U students eat, and we get meal cards to eat there too.

Not much else going on. Now I’m going to try to finish my photography application so I can give it to my FLSR friends who are coming up to hang out tomorrow.