Sickness to the right of me, sickness to the left of me, sickness behind me
It seems that everywhere I turn these days someone is sick. Both teachers and students alike are falling to whatever this disease is. They may be coughing, blowing their nose, or simply looking ill.
This is of course, assuming that they are here at all. If I don’t turn and see someone sick, I’m probably looking at an empty desk. Every period, the first minute or so seems to be spent asking if so-and-so is here. People are staying home for days and it seems that only in the past day or two have the first people to fall ill started to return, as others continue to disappear.
With all this, I am shocked to find that I feel perfectly healthy (albeit a little tired, but that is hardly out of the ordinary here). Yet surrounded by all this sickness I can’t help but feel that my days among the healthy are numbered, and that soon, I too will fall to this bug.
All I have to do is survive the next week or two without getting sick. And at least those who are staying home are resting, getting better, and not exposing me and the rest of the healthy students any more than we already have been.
However, I fear that if I do come down with this illness all the tissues in Uni will be gone — already used up by the first people to get sick…
— Deren Kudeki