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Phone? Check. Clothes? Check. Toiletries? Check. Food? Check. I had my vitamins this morning and was all ready to go on a 4-day trip to Austin with my G.S. troop, but for some reason I forgot the most important thing of all.

We were at Emmer’s and Rye’s, a small restaurant by the capital, for a private restaurant tour.

We knocked on the door, waiting in the small outdoor dining for a person to open it. A few seconds later a man in his fourties came and opened the door. As we went inside, I noticed that the whole kitchen was visible from any direction. The bar table was lined with bar chairs and on the right side of the room along with one long table and a couple of small tables near the windows. The left side had a bunch of booths that could
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to introduce ourselves one by one. On my turn I had to repeat it a couple of times because my voice refused go above a whisper, but in time, he understood what I tried to convey and began the tour.

He started moving towards the kitchen motioning for us to follow, but soon halted and declared,” We’ll start outside first.”

So we took a trip out the door and to the outdoor dining. At this point that I started feeling a little dizzy, but I just shook it off, thinking it was just a headache.

Mr.Tivil took us to 4 large planting pots that had a couple of vegetables growing in each them. He explained to us how they grew some of their vegetables and bought the rest from local farmers. School just got out last week and that meant that I did not need to learn anymore until August. Therefore, I didn’t listen to a word he said plus my headache got worse so I couldn’t really pay attention.

After he was done, he questioned, “What are two of your favorite vegetables?”

Though I did not like talking out loud in front of people, we each had to say them out loud. When my turn approached, I mumbled the names of two veggies loud enough so that he could hear, and since I was the last one we went inside to the
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I was thankfully leaning on an edge so I didn’t fall when I lost consiousness for that brief moment, and instead used it to hold me up.

I vaguely heard voices say things like, “Are you okay?” along with “Get a chair, she needs to sit down.”

Soon after somebody said to get a chair, someone said, “ There is a chair behind you.”

I felt someone gently grab my wrist and pull me away from the edge as she put my hand to chair, so that I knew where it was when I sat down.

A few seconds later, my vision started becoming better and my other senses also came back to normal.

Mr. Tival asked, “Do you want some water?”

”Sure,” I replied.

As I waited for him to return with some water, I realized one thing; I forgot to eat food with my vitamins.

Ever since then, I make sure to eat something before or right after I eat my vitamins so I won’t blackout again. Eating medication or vitamins by themselves are dangerous. You should at least have a cup of milk with it. I really did learn something from this;You must eat befor you take your

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