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I really have a lot to write about, but that's not going to happen today. I am ill. I have a cough that is reminiscent of my bronchitis days at Duke and all I want to do is lie in bed. I am very grateful to have such good friends here who feed me and water me and provide me with an international pharmacy of vitamins, cough drops, and decongestants. In class today we discussed potable water disinfection. Through some simple calculations we discovered that one person (or animal) using the River Muse as a toilet could contaminate the entire watershed (which is all of the Netherlands, Belgium, and a good portion of Germany). That made me feel a bit more sick when I thought about all the times that I have I drank from what looked like a pure stream (Mc, please keep this in mind when we go on our next trip).

So maybe tomorrow I will write about European American night and my holiday in Madrid last weekend. I was able to do some laundry today, which was very necessary after a bird shit on my jacket in Madrid. Apparently it is lucky (says the Colombians, Ecuadorians, Serbians, and Spaniards), but I just felt like I spent three days walking around with bird shit on my jacket.