I have been running almost everyday now. It's quite impressive for me - considering how much I usually hate running, but I guess I'm more motivated at school. Like, it's become part of my "work" mentality.
I'm still paranoid about snakes though. I asked Tolga about it, as he would have the most experience with this. At first he laughed, then he paused - and that pause was all I needed. In the case that I was bitten, he was worried about how accessible an anti-venom would be.
Actually, I already had dissuaded myself. Someone at lunch today told me there were vipers in Turkey and that I probably had seen a viper. Then we searched venomous snakes in Turkey, and there apparently are about 10 types, and over 500 people were treated for venomous snake bites.
Way too many.
And the anti-venom was the least of my fears.
I mean, what if they are sleeping and don't hear me coming because I'm running, and then I startle it and it strikes me and its fang gets stuck in my shoe and inadvertently keeps pumping venom into me. I'm not being funny - I read a story about something like that in Reader's Digest a while back and its stuck with me. In the story, it was one of those miracle stories where I an unidentified stranger found the boy and carried him to safety - which is awesome, but still horrifying. (This is why I censor what I, and want to censor what my 5th graders, read).
Let alone, I'm not sure I could get the nerve to unhood the snake from my shoe - I would probably by writing frantically - which means the snake's body would be writing and slapping me until it was unhooked - and hopefully thrown far enough away that in my spaz attack I hadn't rolled on top of it.
Yeah. I'm so done with cross-training.
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