Day 19 - Better?

June 19 – Better?

I felt a bit better today. I went to class and was actually a bit more enthusiastic than normal. Maria Luisa picked on me saying that I may have had too much rest yesterday because I was being very alert and excited. LOL. Venga! Anyway, today was uneventful. Julie and I went to Veronica’s office to find out more about going to Cádiz since everyone else was either going to Paris or London. I called Paco saying I couldn’t be home for lunch. So, I just stayed at CLM1 longer and talked to people on my laptop for a long while.On my walk back home, I decided I needed to replenish my water supply. So, I dropped by SuperSol which is a supermarket 3 doors down from mine and bought stuff. I find it funny how excited I get when I go in a supermarket nowadays. Omg I can’t imagine what I’ll be like when I go back to the States and enter a Wal-Mart! Haha. I will be so excited to eat all the stuff I want! =P

So, anyway I was walking up and down the aisles and looked for cereals. I was watching TV last night and I saw something familiar. It reminded me so much of my (childhood) all-time favorite cereal, KoKo Krunch. After walking around for a few more minutes, I found my long-lost friend, transfigured into Chocapic.

I was soooooo excited! I didn’t get my hopes up just yet, coz it may be something different. But I knew it had to be because it was made by Nestle too. When I got home, I opened the box, and indeed it is KoKo Krunch!!!!Soooo happy!!! Yet so sad coz my throat still hurts. LOL. I ate kadoodles of it anyway. =P

Day 18 - A Miserable Day

June 18 – Un Día Miserablísimo

I woke up around 6:30am with a terrible sore throat. You know that feeling when you wake up in the middle of a deep sleep with a dry mouth and you’re throat was so irritated? Well, that’s how I felt – multiply that by a 100 times. I actually felt sick last night and went to bed at 8:30pm. I was feeling very tired and my throat was killing me.So, I decided not go to class. I could have gone but I had my senses with me (which was good)and knew that it would just have aggravated it even more had I gone to class. I spent all morning sleeping. I woke up midday to eat and take meds. After eating lunch, I slept some more. Then, I went to tutorials at 5pm. The girls were going out that night but I definitely passed.I went by the pharmacy and bought cough drops, ibuprofen and Vicks Vaporub. I had to buy the Vicks coz I didn’t meet the minimum to use my credit card. LOL. And I always try to hold on to my cash.

Anyway, I went home, ate dinner and slept. My throat was killinggggg me. I had gargled hot water with salt, brushed my teeth very thoroughly, flossed my teeth, took meds, and put some Vicks on my throat, chest, and back. I went to bed hoping that I will feel better tomorrow.Being sick sucks. Paying to be sick in Euros sucks even more. LOL. Oh what humor I have. =P

Day 17 - Barely Making It

June 17 – Barely Making ItThe walk to class is actually getting easier and easier by the day. But today, I should have known something was wrong. When I got to class, I was a bit more tired than usual. About 30 minutes into the class, I was miserable. I knew I was sick. I was cold. So I sat by the window where the sun shone. It felt better there. I took some Tylenol that I had brought with me from the States for cases like this. I thought I was not gonna make it through class. Anyway, it may have worked because by the end of class I was feeling so much better.

Boy was I wrong by the end of this day. I was miserable and my throat was hurting so badly. During dinner, I told my host mom that all I wanted was a quarter of the pizza because my throat was killing me. But she wouldn’t take that answer. Urgh. So, I put myself through hell and ate half (a medium) crispy pizza. I went to bed at 8:30pm after gargling hot water with salt, uberbrushing my teeth, flossing, and taking meds.

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