The past few days I have been drugged. Yup. All medicinal of course, not that type of blog, but yeah. Now the reason why I was so heavily doped (I’m better now, thanks) is because I got this high fever on Wednesday. I reached almost 40 degrees celsius, headaches, no appetite and bones that felt like they would break every turn I took on my bed. This was Wednesday. Thursday happened to be one of the most important days of our project (and probably the coolest), we had a meeting with Gaston Acurio. It felt so IA, that sort of feeling we got when we visited COSAS at the start of last semester’s project but multiplied by 10 because this was GASTON ACURIO (and free food too). Now the doctor of course said I should by no means leave the house, so I missed school on Thursday, but I was thinking of just going to the meeting, you know, “if I felt better”. Well, that feeling never really got there and I ended up missing the meeting.
I’d be lying if I say I’m one of those students who is eager for school and doesn’t let sickness keep them home. In fact, I’m the type of student who will try (most time unsuccessfully) to stay home even if I have the slightest, teeniest amount of cough. Rather be in bed than doing math equations ANYDAY, I’m a normal human being. But for the first time, on Thursday, I felt bad for not going to school. I felt like I was missing out on an awesome opportunity, like I wasn’t being part of a project that I had helped build, shut away from this amazing meeting, I was desperate to actually go to school. And for the first time, my sickness didn’t allow it. And so I guess the point is, when you do projects that you want to do, that you build, where you contact experts, and do field trips to collect data, where you have full autonomy to drive the project wherever you want to take it, then you actually feel that responsibility and that feeling of “I have to go”. Or at least thats what I felt.
I’d be lying if I say I’m one of those students who is eager for school and doesn’t let sickness keep them home. In fact, I’m the type of student who will try (most time unsuccessfully) to stay home even if I have the slightest, teeniest amount of cough. Rather be in bed than doing math equations ANYDAY, I’m a normal human being. But for the first time, on Thursday, I felt bad for not going to school. I felt like I was missing out on an awesome opportunity, like I wasn’t being part of a project that I had helped build, shut away from this amazing meeting, I was desperate to actually go to school. And for the first time, my sickness didn’t allow it. And so I guess the point is, when you do projects that you want to do, that you build, where you contact experts, and do field trips to collect data, where you have full autonomy to drive the project wherever you want to take it, then you actually feel that responsibility and that feeling of “I have to go”. Or at least thats what I felt.