I wake up this morning with gunk covering my left eye. Strange, this never happens. What is this…I have no idea. I should have because we were talking about how often the kids get pink eye. Apparently it is very easy to get pinkeye here, everyone gets it. The kids don’t share or use towels because it is so easy to get. They never dry their hands, etc.
I clean up…pretty much thinking nothing is happening. Later in the day, Sunny Teacher asks what is going on with my eye, its kinda red. I say I don’t know, but I point at the one that was sealed this morning. Of course she says yes. I don’t know…then, oh crap I have the pinkeye. I look in the mirror, and it really isn’t that bad. I ask Sunny Teacher to write me a note so I can go to the pharmacy and get something for it. More than likely I didn’t get the right thing, because it only cost me about 6 bucks and Sunny Teacher didn’t think I had anything besides allergies. They don’t have a word for Pink Eye, or Conjunctivitis in Korean I guess. Even after explaining what happened this morning she still thought it was allergies. I just looked up one of the things the pharmacy gave me, and of course it is an antihistamine. The other thing, the eyedrops, I don’t know what they are. There is nothing on the box identifying them as anything in English. I just hope I have the viral type so
1) I can give pinkeye to the kids who always act up in class and never listen, and
2) It should go away in about ten days
