Oh great...

Since two days ago, swallowing is painful.
At least I can still sleep okay, and there is no other problem. Although, that's actually something that concerns me, since it also means that I can't say I simply had a cold: I simply have a sore throat, and very badly so, and no idea why and wherefore.

In fact, it's so bad that I asked for sick leave from school. So, I'm taking the next two days off (and then there are holidays, and then I'm gone to Portugal).
Depending on how you see it, it's the perfect or a pretty bad time for that. I actually don't much like it; it's a bit too much like extending the holidays.
I just hope I'll get better, or I will have to go see a doctor. Before Portugal, let alone the Riga Marathon, I sure would like to be all right again!

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I also checked in with the Campus Europae coordinator at my home university... and he dropped a bombshell on me, asking whether I had taken any courses in Latvian or could certify that I had reached B1 level of language ability in Latvian.

A little late to tell me that, not least as the requirements were not like that when I started for this sojourn (and I read fine points like that only too carefully).

Not that I hadn't been looking for interesting courses in Latvian, but even with the little that I feel I'm doing this semester, I am doing too much. Even so, I still don't know whether I'll get enough credits for CE at all... certainly not if I can't finally manage to study and do my writing for this semester's courses! Gorram, why do I like Russian so much that I pick up much just so - and then and therefore don't really study!