When tummy troubles hit, it’s good to know you are flexible enough to squat for endless hours over the toilets here. It helps too, to know that when you finally reach the bleached comfort of your own squat toilet, you can lean exhausted against the cold tile and soothe your fever at the same time as letting you bowels run free. Today my focus was solely on traveling from public toilet to public toilet, waiting…waiting, for my tummy to give up. It didn’t relax at breakfast, it didn’t relax at the bazaar, it didn’t relax at the bus station…it thought about relaxing on the three hour (no toilet available) bus ride, but I told it not to! It finally relaxed, with fever and chills, the exact minute I made it home after an exhausting two
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