In the first few weeks of the semester I contracted pink eye, and its been tough for me to get rid of. Sometimes it seems like it has gone away, but then a day or two later my eyes will be more red than ever. I know its not my host family's dog's fault that he's so dirty, and that I petted him and then touched my eye, but I do feel resentful towards him sometimes. He greets me happily after school and I just walk past him, he begs for some pancakes in the morning but I eat them all, and he sits outside my room for hours and hours on end, hoping that maybe, just maybe, I'll find it in my heart to let him in. Usually as soon as I come home from school he follows me and sits outside my room. When I come downstairs to eat dinner, he is still sitting there in the same exact spot waiting for me to let him in. When I wake up at 2:30 in the morning and need to go to the bathroom, he is still sitting there, waiting for me to let him in. Sometimes I feel guilty about not paying more attention to him, but then I remember the pink eye which still, even yesterday, plagued me, and I don't feel so bad. I also am growing less and less kind to stray animals. When the group went to Matucana, I shared my lunch with a few stray dogs. However the food caused fights, which could easily have ended in death. By trying to help I just made things worse. From that point forward I have made it a point to completely avoid animals as one they could cause pink eye and two I'm likely to just make things worse. At Machu Picchu I was eating crackers near the wall when a llama came up and stole a cracker right out of my hand! Wasn't going to fight it too hard over a slobbery cracker, and I gave it another one. However I was slightly worried this would cause problems within the llama community.