Having a cold - part I

(I cut this article in two parts because I am not able to express myself in 300 words and readers won't even read the article when having a quick glance at it and seeing there is a lot of text. (at least, I wouldn't))

Main causes: Weak immune system, your fellow classmates who infect you with the disease

Summary of the weeks (especially the ones of august/ october / march/ may/ june, but it can actually occur all around the year so don't be surprised if you catch a cold in the middle of summer: that's life):

Sunday - phase 1: Seriously sore throat

It all starts on Sunday, you try to ignore it, but you immediately recognize the pain. It feels like your throat is made of sandpaper and everything you eat is made of sandpaper too, so you end up feeling macabre and like you are going to die. Since all the shops are closed on Sundays, there is no way you're able to get throat pastilles and out of desperation you start your new yoghurt diet, which contains yoghurt, yoghurt and guess what… yoghurt.

Monday - phase 1: Still a seriously sore throat

All your prayers of yesterday were worthless. The sore throat is still not gone. Since there are still no throat pastilles around, you have to go to school with just a bottle of water and a 'take care!'-wish of your mother. At school you hope someone brought the throat pastilles you asked them for on whatsapp, though sadly all your friends 'forgot' them because they were too busy having a great weekend and feeling rapturous while you lay suffering from fatal pains in bed. Furthermore you look terrific, which is acknowledged by your friends, wow, you look tired!, and just then that cute boy passes and sees you and you realize that will probably be the last time he looks at you.

All you want is this day to end, but it is going to take a loooong time, since you are stuck in here up untill the sixth hour.

Tuesday - phase 2: Coughing out loud

You weren't able to sleep, because you were coughing all night long and in the morning you feel more tired than you ever did before. The coughing still goes on, with varying sounds from barking seal to I-smoke-a-lot-and-this-is-the-result. 

When you arrive at school you realize it is tuesday-testday, figuring a Spanish endtest and a Physics SE. You haven't studied well; since this Sunday you were too sick to do anything and you skipped a few questions in the homework (you didn't do anything but the easy questions at the beginning of the chapter). While doing the test you still aren't able to stop coughing and when you try, you almost suffocate, because of the itchy throat. Your classmates + teacher get really distracted and annoyed and while suffering from all the unwanted attention the only thing you can think about is how to stop the coughing instead of how to do these questions and you end up writing down total rubbish. You hope your teacher still likes you after your test and you write down a sorry, I can't help it at the bottom of the test, to apologize for your coughing, your not-studying, your general behaviour in class and furthermore all the things you did wrong in life which could have affected this test.