The Epic Tales of Elder and Sister Evans: Courtney's Week #66

Hola!

So this week was pretty eventful, I guess the most exciting news is that this week I was sent to the emergency room in hospital. But calm down, here in Chile that is just what the use for anything that is super urgent. But it was pretty cool, I even got one of those wrist bands with my name and everything. It was kind of cool, it had my exact age. 22 years, 4 months, 6 days. Who knew?

Anyways so I guess I should tell you guys why I went to the hospital, I got bit by a dog on Wednesday. But not just any dog. It was one of the dogs on the street that is missing hair and has like welts and open-sores all over its body. He put a hole the the two pairs of wool tights that I had on and drew a little blood. It really wasn´t that bad, it would have been way worse if I wasn´t wearing so many layers of clothes. But because I had so many clothes on he couldn´t really get his teeth into my leg very well. So it turned out to be more of a bruise. But anyways, so I called the Mission President´s wife and they sent me to the hospital to get a rabies shot and for some reason the hospital also gave me a tetanus shot too, and gave me a perscription for antibiotics. And I have to go back four more times in the next few weeks to finish the series of rabies shots. Wow, all of that just from a dog bite! Whew!

So another thing that happened this week, my companion and I went to the zoo. Hermana Ruiz has never been to a zoo in her life, so last Monday, because it was a holiday (I´m not sure what we were celebrating, but oh well, everyone likes holidays, right), the zoo was open so we went. I was talking to my companion as we were on the way telling her all of the things that we were going to be able to see like hippopatamus, tiger, lion, and monkeys. She said "monkeys, who wants to see monkeys, in Peru people have monkeys for pets." And so, Hermana Ruiz was not very impressed with the wide selection of monkeys that the zoo had. Imagine, having a monkey as a pet! Also I thought it was funny that they have llamas in the zoo! They also had emus as well.