I Had The Craziest Day.

i woke up with a swollen eye
and i couldn't even open my eyes properly
so i went finding for eyewash at pharmacies
but since it was a saturday,
*everything* was closed.

worst thing was, i was due to be somewhere
at 10 and i didn't have the person's number
so i had to take the train all the way there
to tell them that i can't go and then
took a train straight to BelfastCityHospital
to get my eyes checked out.
*going to the doctor's voluntarily-
shows that it was crazy painful!

so anyway i waited with my searing pain
eyes which were swollen closed for TWO HOURS,
just feeling sorry for myself
and it struck me that i am *all* alone.

i have no friends, no family,
NO ONE that i could call to help me.

and for the first time since i've arrived,
which was exactly four weeks ago today,

i cried.

i've never cried since i was here
(except when watching Grey's and stuff),
and i was sobbing uncontrollably
in the middle of the hospital,
just crying my eyes out because of the pain
and the realisation that i have no one.

after *ages*, a doctor came to sort me out
and told me that i have cornea abrasion
which will heal about 2 days' time and all.

as i was waiting for my meds to come,
i talked to this Chinese couple next to me
and when their doctor came,
they couldn't speak any English so i offered
to help translate everything they needed to say.

and i told the doctor that i was a med student,
so she taught me how to examine a patient
and everything while i was translating for her,
which was very cool since i almost forgot
how to say things like 'muscle', 'nerves',
and i certainly didn't know how to translate
'physiotherapy' to Chinese.

she left to get some meds after awhile
and this nurse came in and asked for 'The Med Student'
so i said 'er, i think that's me?'
and then she brought me to another room
and asked me to translate for her as well!!

her patient was a guy who was slashed
WITH A FRIKKIN SWORD!!!
(i asked 'Knife or sword?' just to make sure
and he said it was a sword, both in C& E)
by his roommate who got too annoyed with him.
>.<
very very very scary.
where do you get swords to slash people?!

after everything was done,
the doctor was saying that the hospital should hire me
(which is not a good idea since my Chinese
is totally rubbish!)
and that i have a standing invitation
to go back and just learn things from them.
very the cool.

somehow, i had a moment-
that moment when you *know*
you're right for something and that
this is your calling, you're meant to do this,
you know?

anyways the Chinese couple drove me back
and my eyes are swollen from all the crying,
and the right one is swollen bigger
so i look reeeeally funny.

i'm not allowed to wear contacts
but i'm definitely not gonna be wearing specs out
since my specs are held together by rubberbands.

very cool day.

*mummy- finally all those 11 years of studying
Chinese produced some results huh?!