I haven't been sick this often in a long time. Catch a cold, catch a fever, catch another cold, catch a super bug, catch the runs. The latter having little to do with children, probably. I'm told after a year of this your immune system gets warmed up. I hope so.
I haven't yet missed a day of school. Though I have taken the liberty of stretching out on our classroom heater when I had a fever. I have taken a nap in the library when I had no energy. And I eat hand fulls of cough drops, which I have to hide from students who think its candy.
One student told me, with broken English, that he was concerned for me that I was sick and far away from my family. That was nice. Then his mother gave me some ancient Chinese cold remedy. A black liquid that smells bad and tastes worse.
I don't know where all the mucus comes from, or how my body manages to keep these production quotas. Here we have to buy special garbage bags to throw out trash... I'm wasting all my money on spent tissue. I thought I'd share.
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