First Week

Sarah is getting to the end of her first week and has called Kris the last couple of days.  Apparently she has come down with a cold.  She has been running a 101°-102° fever.  So Kris got the call saying she was sick and didn't want to go to class.  I told her that she needs to go.  Take a couple of aspirin or tylenol to make it thru class and then go back to her dorm and go to bed and rest.  If things are still like when I went, there are usually waiting lists for many of the classes, and the teachers take attendance the first week or two of classes.  In addition to getting your course syllabus and handouts, if you miss a class, especially the big ones that everyone needs to take, they will drop you and add someone from the waiting list. 

This isn't helping with the difficulty of adjusting to life at college.  Unfortunately, these are the things you get to learn to deal with.  It just so happened to hit her within the first four or five days she has been there.  There was actually a home football game today and Sarah had slept in because she still had a little bit of a fever.  Then when she was feeling better, no one was around because they were all at the football game.  I hope this setback doesn't hurt in her adjusting to her new surroundings.