spanish germs

This is going to be a short post, but one thing that bugs me about Spain is that the people here don't care about germs. Do they want to die? Maru gets sick a lot, but the sickness she's had lately is that she has a cough and mucus in her throat. She's taking medicine, and that's fine, but when she coughs she doesn't cover her mouth. Actually, I've noticed that a lot of people here don't cover their mouths when they cough. Shiesh, first the no washing hands thing, then this. Are they related? hmm...So Maru prepares my food and is in the house all day, so I've been careful not to breath when I'm around her and not to get in her line of fire. Last night, I felt my throat starting to feel a little weird, and I though NO WAY, I am not getting sick again! I quickly gargled some salt water and drank some hot tea with honey.

I've already gotten sick twice since I've been here, and I hardly get sick. In high school, I had almost perfect attendance my sophomore through senior years because I never got sick. I thought I had a good immune system - until I came to Spain. Literally ALL of us have gotten sick at least once. When I woke up this morning, guess what I had? I was coughing up mucus. It was funny (well, not really hilarious funny), but when I woke up, I coughed and was like what in the world, I'm sick again? Then I heard Maru coughing outside my room, and I thought YOU. YOU DID THIS. I told her that I thought I was catching what she has, and she gave me some stuff to take. (As I write this, she's upstairs hacking up phlegm. It's quite disgusting.) 

Hopefully it doesn't get any worse because the cold weather + classes + sickness = misery. Plus, when one of us gets sick, we're all together so much that we kind of pass the sickness around. Isn't that nice? Well I have to go to school, but if you don't hear from me for a while it's probably because I'm sick in bed again because of these wonderful Spanish germs. Hasta luego :)