Dengue Fever - Yawza!

so we still haven't left tapachula. clyde's been sick for a while, which is why we've taken so many zero days lately. before he wouldn't let me take him to the doctor, but then yesterday he wanted to go. this is a photo on the wall of the laboratory. i asked the lab technician what it was, and she told me that it is jesus assisting a surgeon. it's good to know that jesus is on board with the mexican doctors. it was funny translating for clyde, because it was sort of like the opposite of my job 2 summers ago where i translated for migrant farm workers when they went to the doctor. anyways, it ends up that clyde has dengue fever. i'm totally getting paranoid that i'm going to get it. the doctor said we are all at increased risk becuase we've been sharing hotel rooms. like if a mosquito bites clyde and then bites me, i'll get dengue. i'm covered in mosquito bites. for some reason i have more bites than anyone else. also, there are 4 types of dengue, once you get one type, you can't get it again, but you can still get the other 3. the doctor said that there is one were blood come out of your eyes, ears, nose, ect... you get the picture. aaaaaaaaaaah! i'm so freaked out about dengue. anyways, we're going to leave clyde here, and he's going to catch up with us later. he's going to take a bus.
last night peter and erik and i came back to the hotel and realized that gary and clyde had the room key. so i figured we should go get a beer. we are kinda in this shady neighborhood, and after asking around ended up in this place called el gallito (the little rooster). it was kinda sketchy and erik didn't want to stay. he wanted to buy the beer and drink in the hotel room. but i wanted to stay, and peter said he'd do whatever i wanted, so we stayed. it was like this room with bikini girls on the wall, and a juke box and plastic tables. the owner came over and started talking to us, and kept giving us more free beer every time we tried to tell him we wanted to leave. he was really funny. i kept going back and forth between english and spanish translating what he said. the owner, mario fabio really wanted a photo of us, but he said he didn't use the internet, so today i got two photos developed and we went back and gave them to him. he was so happy about it, that he gave me this rediculous wooden plaque with a an eagle eating a snake on a cactus carved into it. i didn't really want to bike around with it, so i gave it to the guy working at the hotel.
Everyday it pours down rain in the afternoon. like crazy, crazy amounts of rain. this photo doesn't really do it justice. the other day peter and i got caught out in it, and it was insane! anyways, hopefully tomorrow we'll leave for guatemala. i was going to have everyone take a week off in antigua and take spanish classes cuz i'm getting tired of being everyone's translater, but now i'm not sure we should because we've taken so many days off with clyde being sick.
-jessie