And for today ...

Sometime on Sunday, I realized I was starting to feel sick. In order to prevent an illness from forming I did my best to keep myself well. Unfortunately, by yesterday I had white spots on my tonsils and swollen lymph nodes. I used to have strep once a year as a child for a very long time and was about 95% sure that was what was going down. Unfortunately, I couldn't get to the doctor until today. By the time today turned around I had a stuffy nose, which is a bit strange for strep so I decided that my previous prognosis was wrong. When I went to the doctor, he confirmed strep, much to my chagrin. So I was given some nice doses of ibuprofen and amoxicillin (nice, giant pills!).

Sadly, and unfortunately, that was not the worst part of the day. It was kind of inevitable on retrospect and no use being upset about it anyway, right? I get on the tram to start my long wait home. As I put in my ear-buds  this man sits next to me and starts to talk nonstop. His words were slurred to shit and he would just not leave me alone. I figured that if I told him multiple times how I don't speak very much French that he would decide that talking to me was exhausting. He was constantly getting in my face and sometimes when I would tell him that I didn't know what he was saying he would start to get angry with me.

The worst part was the pitied looks I received from other people. The pity in their eyes made me want to cry from knowing that this was not a normal happenstance and that they felt bad for me. One man who was getting off asked the man next to me if he was drunk to which he said, 'No,' and the other man nodded sarcastically and said, "maybe you should leave her alone" before getting off. That didn't stop him and he went right back to talking about the days of the week or something. Before I finally decided that I could no longer wait until my stop (I hung on almost till the bitter end, I had about four stops left - and it takes about thirty minutes to get from the stop I get on near the University to my stop) two teenagers behind me were saying, "Why is she still talking to him?" and the other says, "I do not think she speaks french well," "Oh. I feel bad for her!" So the next stop I got off to save myself from further embarrassment and just waited seven minutes till the next tram came. When I took the next tram and got off at my stop, I saw him standing on the other side of the rails and I walked as fast as I could home.

He will probably end up with strep in a couple of days.

This situation probably wouldn't have been so bad if my head was a little clearer and I didn't have strep throat. Maybe not. It was a new situation that I have never been in before. But now I know that I should get off a lot sooner if this ever happens again. Thought at first I was really hoping that he would get off within the next few stops, but he never did.

Anyway, since I do have strep and am not feeling very well, I will end today's blog posting. I've been thinking about how to do this, if I should have a designated day to update my blog (every Sunday or something) or just update whenever something exciting happens. Though, if I give myself designated times and dates then it will feel more like work and I will most likely update a lot less.

Toodles!