Unwell

It was only Monday when I made a complete recovery from Seoul but I could feel a cold coming on by Tuesday. What has become known as the Daegu flu usually attacks foreigners within their first few weeks of arriving and combines a regular cold with a headache and high fever. Usually it will clear in few days and come back again the next week before you immune systems completely deals with it. It is interesting how you can see the actual affects of an illness in almost real time. A new arrival will come and inevitably within 3 weeks you meet them again looking paled out and ill. It is nothing serious but it is uncomfortable.

On my return I expected to come down with it again but I think my immune systems pretty much knocked it out of me within a day with little more than a sore throat. Last week in late April where the air here is pretty polluted with the southerly wind blowing down from China, it is not unusual to catch a bug or cold.

I felt it coming on Tuesday and I was pretty sure it was about to depart on Wednesday if it wasn't for my co-workers bright idea to watch the end of the North vs South Korea world cup qualifier and have a few beers at the same time.