On Monday, I was one of six Loyola at Newcastle students invited to go to lunch with Dr. Kashak who is a Loyola global studies professor. Dr. Kashak was visiting his son getting his graduate degree at Cambridge University, and decided to come up to Newcastle when he had some free time while his son was busy. We went to Northern Lights which is a restaurant on campus but I had never been. We discussed academics, particularly contrasting Loyola's to Newcastle's. There are major differences as Newcastle has about 23,000 students and Loyola has about 4,000. We discussed our travel plans for spring break which is surprisingly already right around the corner and I can't wait for it. Dr. Kashak began talking about his travels throughout Europe and he was shocked about how many of the places he mentioned that I had already been to. He mentioned a tiny country called Liechtenstein which lies between Switzerland and Austria, and he said if you can get there, go - because it's another country to cross off your list. He was amazed when I told him I had lunch in Liechtenstein eight years ago. It was great meeting him and enjoyed the conversation and meal.
Wednesday, I woke up and me and Matt Marsh walked over to the campus ministry-type place for an Ash Wednesday service. It was fairly quick but I was glad I went and got it done. We immediately left and went and got sandwiches filled with meat. But I realized before we sat to eat them that it was Ash Wednesday, so we ended up throwing them away and getting a pizza.
On Thursday, my friend John's little sister was coming- who I know because he and I are good friends from home, so I went with him to the airport to pic her up. I met him at the train station at 7:00 am and we took the train to the airport. He told me that I had a pink eye- which I didn't even realize because I was in such a rush. We got Mary from the airport - and I let him borrow my air mattress so she could sleep on it. After class I went and bought some eye drops at the pharmacy as my eye kept getting worse throughout the day.
Friday my eye was even worse so I just sat in my room all day doing nothing really, and when I woke up Saturday I couldn't even open it. The eye drops said if it didn't show improvement in 48 hours to go back. I started putting them in Thursday at 6:00 so I decided to wait until Saturday at 6:00. It got worse and worse so I finally walked down to the hospital emergency room where they sent me to the Minor Injuries Unit. I met with a male nurse who gave me ointment to put on the lower lid of the eye. He told me it should clear it up but if it wasn't better by monday morning to go back to the hospital and go to the eye casualties division. Today, it was terrible. I can't look at my computer or phone or anything with light because it is so painful. I keep putting the ointment in but it is terrible. Hopefully when I wake up it will be a little better, but either way i'll probably end up going back. I'll keep you posted.
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