"Hello, its Sandra, the sick on in 39"
I arrived without problem to the SIDA-building where the course took place. Found my room, had a nice dinner, went to the introduction. Had an early night after which a good breakfast with nice company. Monday was a rather long day with courses from 8.00 til 18.00. After which we had dinner in what can onlybe desribed as a fancy ballroom from 1800-something. During these two days I met many new friendly and nice people all with interesting projects ahead in far away countries.
The biggest reason for my participation at tuesday and wednesday would have been to get to know my coursemates better. Unfortunately I woke up really early Tuesday morning to realize that for the first time since child with what turned out to be stomach-flu. I did for the longest time try to tell myself (and others) that it was food poisoning but after a while realized that was not the case. So well they put my in quarantine and for the rest of the course I spent with using my imagination to find the most comfortable position at the floor of the toilet. Nah, it wasnt really that bad. But it was boring and I felt horribly week. I did have a coursemate that came with fruits to me and it was nice to talk to someone (even only for a couple of minutes, since that was the longest time I could spend in a standing position at the time).
Next day I called one of the people organizing the course ( I talked to her several times the day before): Hello, this is Sandra... The sick on in room 39". So on the 10th of March I have to once again travel 900km up to Härnösand to complete the course. Well, it would have been nice to only have to gone to the course once but im happy that I will get an other chance and even if I do got a lot to do at least I can study while spending countless hours on the train;)
Love S.