I <3 Smecta

Smecta, for those of you that are curious, is an algae-based "oral suspension agent" that I've been mixing with water these last few days to fight off a pretty debilitating and nasty stomach virus. (That's part of the reason I haven't been posting much lately.) Let's just say there's a certain Indian restaurant right off St. Michel that I'm not going back to anytime soon. It turns out this virus has been going around Paris, my host brother had it last week, and all of the people in attendance at our dinner party last night (where I ate small spoonfuls of couscous) knew people who had it as well. Unfortunately, it hasn't exactly instilled in me a spirit of camraderie over our shared suffering, rather just me being upset at spending a beautiful weekend far away from the rather elusive Parisian sun.

On a more fun note, I did have dinner last night with the man who invented the water bed. (I don't make this stuff up.) Very interesting British guy who's clearly been places. He lives in Paris now and is with one of my host dad's colleagues at the Centre Pompidou. Anyways, we had some interesting discussions about Uganda (which our local AIESEC DC chapter has been active in) and some of his more random travels.