Congratulations on surviving your first international medical experience

So, after being achey as hell on Saturday, having a runny nose and cough since Monday and then waking up yesterday with my eye stuck shut and it being totally red, I finally decided to haul my butt to the health services here at PolyU this morning. After being told by an Asian nurse that I was too skinny after taking my height and weight. Not to make a cultural stereotype, but seriously? look at your people. They are all WAY skinnier than me. It was an interesting experience but in the end here's the diagnosis....
I have some sort of conjunctivitis in both of my eyes. Which in case you're not a pre-med major means I have pink eye in both eyes. Seriously, that stupid ass thing that every kid picks up from kindergarten. Yeah, I got it while I'm a college sophomore studying abroad in Hong Kong. Seriously, Lame. There are about a billion things I would rather be doing than writing this blog because I'm going stir crazy sitting in bed. At least when you get it in kindergarten all you miss out on is a coloring page and how to spell "cat." I, on the other hand, could be hmm shopping right now, sitting on a beach somewhere, climbing mountains, or otherwise enjoying myself. But, no, I am typing this blog wearing one of those ridiculous masks that makes me look like I have SARS. 


I am a terrible patient. 


I have now been prescribed FIVE different medications. I swear, they hand pills out here like candy. They gave me pink ones for my cough, white ones for my fever that I don't have/acheyness, yellow ones for my cold (these ones may cause drowsiness!), as well as eyedrops obviously and eye ointment. Now, my eye ointment says to apply a thin layer to affected area. Am I seriously supposed to put ointment on my eye????? If anyone can answer this question within the next 7 hours or so, let me know....


Besides being sick, I was rather enjoying myself :) 


We're finally back in classes off CNY (Chinese New Year) break. I got to see the parade which was extremely dull. I mean, I like parades, but this was really crap. I really expected a lot more. The fireworks on the other hand were FANTASTIC. They completely smoked up the entire sky and probably caused a year's worth of air pollution, but they were soooo shiny :) Absolutely lovely


I bought an amazing pair of hot pink sunglasses last night that I absolutely adore for like 8 bucks last night (bargained down at the Temple Market). Still addictive. Yesterday, I went to the Avenue of Stars yesterday and saw a massive statue of Bruce Lee which was an extreme let-down for one) because the box holding the clue from the Amazing Race was no longer there and two) we couldn't find a statue of Jackie Chan. Not finding Jackie Chan is really depressing from an American's point of view because he's really the only star I know of from HK, but apparently all the locals basically think he's a big jerk. I got the feeling from a local that he's kind of a horrible husband and father. So, apparently, they don't really feel compelled to build a statue in his honor.


This week has actually been somewhat full of classes by HK PolyU standards. This meaning that I've actually averaged more than a class a day haha. I'm still getting used to the lack of lecture time. I turned in my first lab report for Coloration and Finishing Technologies yesterday so hopefully that get's a good grade. The teacher is very sweet and apologizes for having poor English all the time, so maybe he'll give me an A just because :) The lab was on the effect of enzymes, stone washing, de-sizing, and softening on denim so it was actually kind of a cool report. I love textile labs. I survived my first presentation here on Monday in Retail Buying tutorial. Our project was to forecast the trends, design concepts, colors/fabric, etc for Fall/Winter 2011 for the mass market segment. My group was made up of Caitlyn and I, a girl from the Netherlands, and a girl from Sweden so it was sooo cool for us to all come together with our ideas. I was really really happy how it turned out and the work we did. I forgot to take pictures of the mood boards, so hopefully I'll get mine back when she finishes grading it. I'm not sure how well that's going to go, as the teacher seemed to applaud the local students' copied and pasted from style.com work more than ours. But, we shall see.


Hopefully I will be feeling better by tomorrow and can maybe do some things then :) In the mean time, I will just be catching up on youtube hits and facebook statuses....