Allergies - ick---CUBA!!!

When I was a child in Jamaica, I didn't know what allergies really were. I thought there was someone's throat closing up because they couldn't eat peanuts. Then I moved to Canada and one year when the weather changed my eyes started watering and getting itchy, my sinuses were screaming bloody murder, I couldn't breath and my throat was scratchy. Freaked out, went to the doctor and he told me, "well, Congratulations. You have seasonal allergies." 

WHAT???

I sat there staring at him as if he'd just asked me to elope and have three point five babies. I mean shit, I spent 13 years of my life and never had to worry about this crap and then WHAM? How is that fair? 

Now at 28, I'm still getting my ass kicked. Am on the bus blowing my nose trying to clear it and people looking at me like I just sprouted horns.  Ick. I wonder what it's going to be like when I go to Cuba?? Oh and by the way, 10 days and counting!!!

I've started packing--well I took out most of the stuff that I need to carry. My school has given me lists after lists of things to pack. I still have to get my booster for the hepititis A and B shots I got a week or so ago. Still scared by that by the way. I hate needles.  But it has to be done. Plus all my exams--yes party people I am back in school...ugh....exams are to be done early.

Tomorrow, during our final orientation/spanish class, we're having a pot luck so I have to do all the stuff I have to do today, then go home and bake a cake...I could have picked something simplier...but noooo I'm me and I have to do something next to impossible. But it is for good people so I don't mind. The strange thing about the group I am going with, they are the funniest, down to earth people ever! It should be interesting--because I don't consider myself a down to earth person. I mean I am open-minded (I've been told) and sometimes I can be too serious so I'm hoping this trip will help me fix that about myself. I just can't wait to see the people and feel the sun and see the sunset in a different part of the world.   I said this to a 'friend' once and she wants to know what was so special about seeing the sunset in a different country. She said "once you've seen one you've seen them all." 

 The difference, is that no two sunsets are alike.  Think about it. When you're in Canada the sunset by splashing different colour across the sky. When I'm in Jamaica, the sunset and turn the sky a nice pinkish, orange-ie red. In the US, the sun just goes away, covered by clouds--the sun goes away without so much as a whimper. But there is something so different, so...I don't know how to explain it. I think it's the writer in me that just wants to see this.

Anyways, I am going to back to work. I have to go face my day...which doesn't really start until I leave work today. I still have to get some passport pictures taken and after that I think I'm going to use the hour wait to get the braids for my hair...crap! I knew I forgot something....Must make appointment to get my hair done next week...that's important no?

*hugs*
Kato