I have a man voice...

I’ve decided to make this blog a weekly thing. We’ll see :)

This past week… well this past week has been kind of a doozy! But here's the killer - I didn't do ANYTHING. literally.

Last Saturday, I started feeling pretty sick… extremely sore throat and nausea (I think because my throat hurt so much! That’s one of my first responses to pain…nausea. Ugh). Anyways, I kept hoping that it would all clear up on its own, but everyday I got worse and worse. Well, on Tuesday, I was feeling really bad so I talked to my head teacher, and she told me that she didn’t want me to come in and teach.  Thank heavens! I spent that whole day in bed, hoping that a little rest was all I needed, but it just continued to get worse :( And then I lost my voice completely. At that point, I came to the conclusion that this whole sickness business was getting a little out of hand, so I finally caved and let the director set up a doctor’s appointment for me.

To make a long story short, after having a ton of instruments shoved down my throat (which did NOT look sanitized to me!) and playing charades to explain what was wrong (The doctor barely spoke english, but I’m very grateful for the little he did speak!), I was diagnosed with acute tonsillitis and laryngitis. Funnnn stufffffffff. He wanted me to stay in the hospital for the next couple of days.  But, being the stubborn person that I am, I told him that I really really didn’t want to. After some apparently persuasive bargaining, he agreed to let me avoid the hospital stay. In return, I promised to stay in bed, not speak, and take all of my 5 prescribed medications dutifully.

Well, I kept up my end of the bargain, and let me tell you, it almost drove me CRAZY!

I hate hate hate laying around all day, not doing anything productive. I feel like such a waste of space when I do that! But, I had promised. By day two, I finished all five of the books that I hadn’t read yet. Out of desperation, I then turned to my host family’s small American movie stash. And when I couldn’t focus on the movies anymore, I’d take a nap. That, folks, is a recipe for depression! Just kidding, but really.  Don't worry - I didn't get depressed, but I definitely didn’t feel good about the situation - I was not cut out to just sit around all day... I wanted to be able to do something, anything!

Well, yesterday was day five of the prescribed exile-ment, and I was feeling a lot better! So, before my host family woke up and could protest my decision, I got myself on the metro and then the matschrutka and made it to church just in time. I felt like such a rebel, sneaking out to go to church and all ;) It was definitely the right choice – church was great –but it totally wiped me out! This being sick thing is definitely NOT my idea of a good time!

I’m feeling a lot better today, and this week should be pretty fun :)  Tomorrow night, I’m taking an overnight train to Poland and just sightseeing until I have to fly back on Sunday.  While we’re there we are going to see Auschwitz, the Salt Palace, tons of churches, etc., etc.   I’m (as my students would say) suuuper, suuuuper, suuuuuuuper excited :) haha    

Yay for travelling!