An Unlucky St. Patty's Day

Well, my St. Patty's Day was anything but lucky. It all started around 1:00 am when I had a terrible, not to mention random, pain in my stomach. I was fine all day but as time ticked away that evening, the pain grew worse and worse to the point where I was rolling on the floor, shaking, and on the verge of falling unconscious. I tried to stay calm and hope it would pass while arguing with myself on whether I should phone for help. Eventually, I threw up continually until about 4am where I finally felt some what better and fell asleep. I'm pretty sure I just ate some bad eggs earlier in the day and my body was punishing me for it. The next day, I stayed in bed until I absolutely had to shower and get ready for work. I felt okay, but far from my normal self. I went to work (because Koreans don't believe in sick days. You literally have to be on your death bed with a note from a doctor.) I then prepped all of my material for my (2) three hour classes and received a text message from my co-teacher Sarah. It read: "I look like a monster! The Doc. said I have Scarlett Fever and I should stay home for 5 days. Jae (our boss) wants me back to work tomorrow."

So many thoughts rushed into my head. Scarlett Fever?!? Isn't that a book? Didn't settlers get that as they crossed the Oregon Trail? Don't you die from Scarlett Fever?

Well despite Sarah's horrible news, I decided I was ready to attempt getting some food into my system. As I'm walking out the door, my boss starts running after me. She then proceeded to ask me to teach both of Sarah's classes because they couldn't find a qualified teacher as they were higher level classes. Like I had a choice! So I scrambled to prepare another set of lesson plans. And really, not exactly the best day to ask me for favors. I was already feeling terrible and then she sprung this news on me. Talk about anxiety. I had a few minutes left to get some fresh air before classes would begin. I called Sionna only to learn that she too was having an "unlucky" day. She tripped and re-injured her knee carrying heavy boxes, spent an unexpected large fortune at the post office sending packages home, and was running late to school.

Apparently the "luck o' the Irish" wasn't in our favor that day! We should have all just stayed home!