I love Christmas. It is my favorite holiday, by far. You get to get out of school for two weeks, spend time with friends, and family, and just get to relax from all the pressures that are placed on you from school. Too bad that this year I didn't get to get out of school on December 18 like everyone else, and actually feel like I got out of school because of Christmas vacation. Instead, I was stuck at home with bronchitis. I was looking forward to almost being done with school on Tuesday, December 16. I would finally be done with swimming in three days! I should have known that I wouldn't make it to the end of the week. You see i have had a cough for about a week and it was getting pretty bad, but I made sure that I would stay in school for as long as possible, and I did.

On that Tuesday I felt so terrible right when I woke up. I was coughing had a headache, and I just felt plain tired, but I somehow made myself go to school, because I was so determined to make it through this week. First hour, I felt chipper even though I was sniffling like crazy. I felt really bad for all the people around me, because I knew how annoying my continuous sniffles were. I was feeling okay until I got to sixth hour... gym. Now this week was the last week of the dreaded swimming, so it would be a pain to have to make up any swim days. When I entered the swimming pool I started to cough so much that I thought my lungs were going to collapse. I just wanted to be done so badly. I made it through that day of swimming.

When I dried off everything felt odd. My skin hurt, I felt hot, and I was exhausted. Unfortunately I had to stay at school because my mom was working the Teacher Luncheon and I had to help. I tried so hard not to cough but it wasn't working. The harder I tried not to the harder I coughed. It was a nightmare. Finally, I went home and took my temperature, it was 101.3. I was glad that I could sleep in tomorrow but so upset that i had to miss a day of gym ,because I would have to make it up later on. I went to the doctor the on Wednesday and she told me I would have to miss the rest of the week due to my fever. I was devastated that I would have to miss the last days before Christmas vacation.