Weekly Blog #30: Straight Outta Sicktown



Hello ‘Ilima!

This week was very different from all the other weeks because of one factor. I was sick. Iron Man is down for the count. It started on Monday when my head was hurting, but I just rested and it better for Tuesday where the story really starts. My head was hurting more and eyes became wet and sore. ELA, my first period for that day, was a struggle and I felt like I was dying. I was barely standing straight during recess which caused my friends to look at me strange. Then we head to AVID. During the mediation period, I put my head down and my shoulders started heating up. Everything was so hot but it actually felt soothing in a way. When I got up, my neck and shoulders were still hot but my headache was gone. The people on my table could tell I wasn’t feeling good and they told the teacher for me. She checked my forehead and said it was warm, so I got sent to the health room. There, the nurse checked my temperature and I was at 103 degrees. This was enough to get me sent into another room to wait for my dad to pick me up. So now I’ve been resting at home for almost a week and I’ve been slowing getting better. It was a lot of sleep for the first two days. I would be sleeping anywhere for like 10+ hours. I was also drinking a lot of liquids from water, orange juice, tea, smoothies, and more. Right now, I still have a wet cough and the need to blow my nose a lot which is a bit annoying. Having basically a week off was pretty cool, but I have a lot of work I need to do.

Me in the Healthroom (terrible picture)

Healthroom Table

A highlight from this week was going to the North Shore and experiencing the outside world. This happened on Friday and it was so amazing to go into the real world have days of being locked inside. My family and I got some good food and I gotta breathe some fresh air. Another highlight was that I didn’t have to go to school for most of this week!!! The obvious lowlight from this week was getting sick because I felt miserable for those first couple of days. I also know still have this lingering cough. Another lowlight is the work that I’m going to have to do. Sigh. 

The lesson that I learned from this week is that rest is good. Something I didn’t mention earlier was that during AVID, I didn’t want to go to the Healthroom because I didn’t want to end up missing class time. I didn’t want to rest to get better because I wanted to keep on working and keep on having perfect attendances. But I needed to be able to just take a break and be able to heal and get better. I’m still coughing up a storm so I best be going. I hope you have a great week. Cheers to another day!


Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Year Blog: 2023-2024

Image
Hello ‘Ilima You’ve been traveling on foot for the past couple of days now and you are starving. Your supply of water ran out and you are desperate for a resting place. Out of the corner of your eye, you see a wooden cabin. You knock on the front door and an old man answers your knocks. He had gray, curly hair and has a built stature. His eyes look tired and his hands look dirty. “Oh hello there, do you need anything?” You explain your situation and the man lets you in. He allows you to stay in his house for all long as you needed to. You wash up in his bath as he prepares you a meal. When you are clean, he gives you brand new clothing in order to be more comfortable. As you start eating the food, the old man asks you about your journey. You explain how you have been looking for a purpose in your life and went on a voyage to explore the world. “I think I have a story that can help you.” the old man tells you. You interest is piqued and you want to hear what he has to say. “It all start...
Read more

Weekly Blog 3-7 (60): Meeting of the Victors

Image
Hello 'Ilima What is up ‘Ilima! This week of school was much more of a ramp up week as next week is the big one. But that doesn’t mean this week wasn’t full of stuff to do. The biggest school event would be the Graduation Meeting. During this meeting, parents would learn about the 8th grade graduation and learn about the different parts of the graduation. There wasn’t very much to do as a leadership member, but it was still good to hear about the information for my graduation. That was the only school event, but I still had a bunch of class work. First, we have had this project in Computer Science where we need to guide a robot from one point to another. This project has been pretty frustrating at times because the robot sometimes just doesn’t do what you want it to do. And it’s hard to make changes to your programming because we are sharing the robot amongst the whole class, making it difficult to see the changes you make. I wish we had multiple robots in order for us to be able t...
Read more

Weekly Blog 3-6 (59): Shopping for Tests

Image
 Hello ‘Ilima What’s is up! This week was only 4 days long, but was still full of many things. Starting with Leadership related things, we had the second Recognition Night of the year on Thursday. There was a lot less people this time, but it was still fun to cheer on the people who got good grades. I had gotten a 4.0 and walking up on stage was cool. The most interesting part of Recognition Night was what happened before it as me and some people from Leadership had fun doing random things outside. We had a race, listened to music, and more. Moving onto school stuff, we had the Science SBA this week. I was pretty anxious because I had no idea what to expect for the test. So when I first opened the test, I was met with a lot of things that I had not learned before. But I endured the pain and after two classes, I finished my SBA with Level 4. It was a terrible experience, but at least I got a good score. Final thing I will mention is that there was an ELA poster that we had to create...
Read more