It’s the season to.....
Be sick, with a cold. This is not a pleasant feeling in a foreign
country. Normally I would just pop down
to the supermarket, like everyone else, and buy some strepsils and panadol or
something similar. Not in Germany. You have to go to the Apotheke, the
pharmacist. The paracetamol is kept
behind the country, along with the nose spray.
It was quite strange having to go in and ask for what I wanted and
why. The Apotheke is the shop where you
can buy over the counter and prescribed medicines. It’s quite similar to the pharmacies in New
Zealand in that regard, except many of the over the counter things are display
only in Germany. Alas, I came away with
paracetamol and a nose spray. Now I can
breathe! If you wanted supplements and
dietry requirement things, you need to go to what’s called a Drogerie, where
they sell these, baby food, household cleaners and over the counter
medications.
Because I’m sick, I took the day
off from course (bad, but I thought it best not to infect others, and suffer
through 5 hours of constant German).
This allowed me to actually get to the Apotheke, which is closed by the
time course finishes otherwise I would have gone yesterday. It’s also quite ironic, that in course we
just started a new topic; on health. I
think being in a completely different country, constant exhaustion by the end
of the day, lack of broccoli, a complete lack of exercising (I’m actually
having withdrawals!) and the very cold weather has just run me down. Speaking of weather, it snowed last
night. It’s a pity it didn’t set. Now it’s just bitterly cold.
I was
gutted that I was not able to go on the culture programme excursion last night. It sounded like it would have been a good,
fun night out. Jazz music on a
ship! It was a good think I didn’t go
though, because it ended up being cancelled.
And
finally, I have bought a pretzel! This
is a must do while in Germany.
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