Autumn in London '06

Sickness and Essays

Hi Everyone,

Well, it’s been an interesting and very stressful week. I apologise that I will be unable to write more than once per week from now on, because I have so much to do before the end of the term academically. Anyway, moving on…

Monday, Brendan’s last full day in England, we decided to see some sights and just walk about London. We saw Westminster Abbey, walked along the Thames, walked through Hyde Park, looked in the Museum of Natural History, saw the Victoria and Albert Museum, and walked along Oxford Street admiring the lights and the sights along the way. It was a great time; London is such a lovely city!

Tuesday, though, began what was a not-so-good rest of the week. After seeing Brendan off and going to my class, I got a call from Kevin. He felt extremely sick and had blacked out a couple of times overnight. I rushed right over and together we went to a walk-in clinic for the NHS to see what was the matter. He was feverish, flu-like, and was basically totally miserable. After a brief wait, he was seen by a doctor who said that the problem was, for the third time this year, Strep/tonsillitis. So Kev got his medicines and we went home. For the rest of the week, whilst Kevin was bed stricken and miserable, I did his errands, brought him food, went to and from Blockbuster more times than I can count, all the while still doing the things that I had to do for my classes during the week It wasn’t fun at all, but it was okay. I knew that he would do the same for me, and I love him so much, I would do anything for him!

But perhaps most disappointing of all was that we had a trip to Rome planned for Thursday to Saturday, which was supposed to essentially be our anniversary trip (our anniversary is today, December 3rd). But obviously, with Kevin still feeling sick, we didn’t go. It’s too bad, but it’s alright. So for our anniversary we instead took a trip on the London Eye, the giant Ferris wheel that goes over 500 metres up into the air! It’s so amazing to see London all sprawled out. It really is an enormous and beautiful city! For dinner, we went to a nice Thai restaurant in Fulham, which was lovely to say the least. Expensive, sure, but it was a great meal and a nice atmosphere. I really just hope that Kev gets better soon, as in the coming weeks we have a lot of course work to do!

posted by Zachary Nicholson @ 9:43 PM