Cold Medicine “Pabron” Helped me a lot

Today is the fourteenth day of the spring semester 2024, and on Sunday. My Saturday was bad because I had got a cold. Body temperature was not so high, but I had sluggishness on my body, my throat, muscle, and joints were aching. After my supper on Saturday night, I took two tablets of cold medicine “Pabron” which I brought from Japan. And then I went to bed. I felt hot and became sweaty on Saturday night as well as Friday.

In the morning today, I again took Pabron after breakfast. Apparently, my condition was getting better through morning hours. I felt like as if I were HULK with his muscling up

Thanks to the medicine, I could finish grading of retests of three subjects in the morning. I went outside for lunch at noon. Every weekend I go to the campus cafeteria at noon and eat boiled dumplings. It is usually on Saturday, but this week on Sunday because of my catching cold. Ordering dumplings must be done by choosing 10, 15, or 20 in number. I always order 10. Since my stomach is not so big, if I order 15, I would mess my weekend afternoon by heavy stuff in my stomach. But here is another issue. Although I want to say 10 pieces, I often say 4 pieces. Four dumplings are neither the unit of ordering nor enough for lunch. Today again, my ordering was like “4 pieces”, “You mean 10?”, “Uh, yes,10” kind of conversation. In addition, many students order dumplings for “to-go”, I have to “I will eat them here”.

On the way back to my room, I bought 12 litters of bottled water. 12KG is one-fifth of my body weight. It was heavy to carry by my hand but I did that. I felt my energy back.

I had been analyzing quiz about particles (postpositions). I gave the quiz to the first-year students in order to measure how much my students had learned particles so far. Each student makes errors in his/her way. I spent whole afternoon hours to prepare for feedback to each student. Some were still unable to use the subject indicator ”-ga”, some don’t understand “-ni” was the destination indicator of action of a verb. Typical error was using the destination indicator “-ni” instead of “-de” for where an action takes place.

I started sending messages to each student after supper. The messages were not just showing his/her errors, but also asking answers to questions to confirm if he/she learned the right choice of particles. Communication on SNS had continued in Sunday night. Then I realized that the time was 9:43 p.m. already. I sent a message on class bulletin board saying “I am going to bed tonight”. Some ten messages were left “unread”. Those will be answered by me tomorrow.