One Pill Makes You Larger...

And one pill makes you small. And the little blue half-pill? The strangest of them all. Just ask your Korean doctor...

I realize I haven't finished my Japan-logue.. sigh. But since I've come home, I've developed a rather nasty 'mystery illness' (avian flu?). I started to run a fever on Wed. night. Thursday at school, I still had it. Let me tell you - it's REALLY cool to try and teach kindergarteners when you're coughing, sneezing and running a fever. Now you're probably reading this and thinking "Why wouldn't you just go home?"

Well - in Korea, sick days are frowned upon... And I want to try and use mine letter on to currie a favour, but we shall see. At this point I hadn't slept in quite a few nights - up coughing and sick and whatnot. Friday comes, I'm even worse, so I come to school teach one block. By teach I mean sit in the corner with my head in my hands while I make the kids colour. After this I had a break so I go to the doctor who listens to my chest and says my breathing is bad (pneumonia? bronchitis?) and of course her English is not the greatest so I really have no idea what's wrong - she prescribes me "rest" and to stay away from "big cold winds" and a slurry of pills.

Each dose is about 4 or 5 pills. So I go back to school, at this point I ask for the day off but because another teacher is off sick I can't go. I take my pills. I begin to feel VERY drowsy. Then it dawns on me that perhaps I took the pills for night, and it turns out I did take the package of pills that contains a sleeping pill of sorts. So I teach the rest of the day fighting off a sleeping pill.

I ask another teacher what the pills are. And now I think that they are not supposed to help my cough or my flu at all. He told me a few of them are uppers like ephedrine, a few are downers and one is a sleeping pill... real cool. So I'll be all hopped up for the next few days - the problem was I couldn't ask anyone 'cause they only spoke Korean.

And all this would sound all funny to me... If I didn't feel quite so horrible. And to top it off, I woke up today (well not really woke up - I got up after tossing and turning awake all night) and it seems I have developed a sort of eye infection. Gotta love Korea!