I get by with a little help from my friends

When I woke up this morning I felt miserable, tired and sick. Now? Well the room won't stop spinning and I still have a temperature but I'm happy. So what's happened since this morning? Friends!

  My host family are great but their way of coping when I'm ill is to avoid me. I hope I'm not being harsh when I say that from my point of view it's a fairly miserable tactic. At the moment I am incredibly dizzy; I can't leave the flat and even standing up is a challenge so as you can imagine my food supply is running low and cooking is impossible. Today Amy came round with some orange juice and food she'd bought for me and Claire also popped round with a huge, freshly made Shepherds pie for me! I have such amazing friends.

  Plus this morning a dear friend asked me to be Godmother to her (gorgeous) daughter.I'm absolutely thrilled and can't wait to go home and be with that family again and tell my new god-daughter how proud I am of her!