Monday, January 23, 2006

Infuru

I am sitting here at my base school being as strong as possible. I am chanting in my head "don't get sick, don't get sick". So far it is working. Lucky for me. Touch wood.
There are 215 students in this school and 25 are away sick right now. Mostly with flu. Influenza is infuruenza in Japanese. Shortened to infuru. So 25 are sick. 19 of these students are from the 2nd grade. It is a serious problem here. The 2nd grade students went home at 10am on Friday to rest and take care of their health.
Quite amazing!

3 comments:

J-girl said...

Since I've gotten a cough and sore throat, my chant's changed to one of denial: "You're NOT sick! You're NOT sick!"

nowinihon said...

after being sick in bed three times in the few months I've been here (really nasty), I now rinse my throat with that iodine stuff you get from the chemist at the mere hint of a sore throat plus take vitamin sups.
Mind you despite having a temperature and shivering etc. each time i've been ill the dr has described it as a "cold" so i'm dreading finding out what the flu is like.
ps thanks for the spag bol recipe. i made it tonight and it was good, despite using ingredients from the Big supermarket.
mko

Sarah said...

my whole 1 nen sei (so that was 1/3 of the school) was cancelled for 2 days due to the flu. as well as the 3 and 5 nen sei from the shogakko. sounds like it's an epidemic