Leg pain

My leg really flared up Monday night -- I could hardly walk to bed because of the pain. It's pretty inflamed. Tuesday I iced it a lot and tried to stay off it, plus I took some naproxen. The pain comes and goes, but fortunately it isn't as bad as the previous night. Hopefully the inflammation will diminish. Due to my leg, Dee drove to and from the Institute. She's doing quite well at the wheel -- a bit too timid perhaps for the other drivers here, but it's nice that she can get us around.

We had our usual sized crowd for Taco Tuesday, except the missionaries had to go out of town for the day, so there was a lot of taco meat left over! Not everyone is shown in the photo, but the food was very appreciated.

In the afternoon I worked on my lesson for Friday and did some computer cleanup, as well as printing some sheet music for the choir class. The printer at the Institute is a really nice color laser. Maybe I'll have to get myself one when I get home.

Choir was fun tonight. The group is small, but we did have all four parts covered, and the harmony sounded good.  We're working on two Christmas pieces: "What Child Is This?", translated into Italian by our choir teacher, and "Tu Scendi Dalle Stelle" ("You Come Down From The Stars"), a lovely traditional Italian carol. Our choir teacher Lorenzo is a professional musician and teacher. He served in the Rome mission the same time Dee did, but they never met. He is extremely talented as a composer, director, and pianist, and is well known in the community. We got to visit for a while Tuesday  evening after class and enjoyed getting to know him better.

We got to come home a bit early because the evening English classes have shifted back to the stake center, which had been under construction since we got here. It was nice to have some time at home before bed, making some calls to the US to take care of some family business.