General training of trainers and illness

I recently returned from Omaruru where group 35 will have their pre-service training. I have been selected as one of the resource volunteers to assist the new group in adapting to the life of a volunteer in Namibia. It was like any other workshop. People talked, we made plans, we discussed things, and we talked about the new group. All in all it wasn’t particularly exciting. The town of Omaruru however is rather nice but expensive. There is a large Afrikaner population because of the farmland nearby which drives prices for everything up. I’ll be one of the first volunteers group 35 will get to meet, it should be interesting.
Recently I became rather ill after eating some fish that I might not have prepared properly or it might have not been stored properly before we bought it. Sam (my roommate) bought some fish from a dude in a parking lot outside of his school. I know that sounds shady but it’s really quite common. I ate two fish and started feeling bad about an hour later. I won’t go into detail but let’s say it was quite the unpleasant experience. I got food poisoning and ended up with a GI track infection because of the food poisoning. I also managed to strain several abdominal muscles due to the violence of my vomiting. I also became dehydrated because I was unable to hold anything down. I started drinking oral rehydration salts. If you’ve never tasted oral rehydration salts imagine going to the beach, filling a nalgene with salt water, and drinking the whole thing slowly over time while you have painful stomach issues. That’s how it feels. It’s almost like a punishment for being dehydrated. However, it is much nicer than the alternatives of IV fluids, or worse, suppositories.