1. Be really stressed out the weeks before you leave. Try braking up with some friends or try to over plan everything for your trip.
2. Get 3 hours of sleep the night before you leave, even less if you can.
3. Do not sleep on the plane, if any dozing does happen arrange for the girl next to your to climb over you every 2 seconds, this will wake you up without fail..
4. Take at least 2 planes so you can be exposed to the most germs in confinement as possible.
5. Make sure that you fly into a country that is just starting it’s day (getting in before 7am is desirable), this way you will be forced to do activities and unpack the first day instead of sleeping. Those 3 hours of sleep you got 30 hours ago should be all used up and a complete feeling of exhaustion should have taken over your body.
6. Try to fight your jetlag because everyone says that it will help regulate you.
7. Move to a country with no fruits or vegetables.
8. Your second day after you wake up with a horrible runny nose and sore throat, pretend it is allergies.
9. Walk EVERYWHERE until your body hurts with fatigue.
10. Forget your sweater so when you have to walk home from the National Museum and it starts raining harder then you have ever been in before you get a nice 45 minute shower in a tank top..
Join us next time for “Julia’s Easy Plan for Staying Sick as Long as Possible” it will include fun tips like “Don’t have your Danish CPR card yet so you cannot go to the Doctor” and “Make sure the pharmacy is a 45 minute walk and you do not know how the bus system works yet”.
UPDATE: Other student in my housing gave me cold medicine. I am feeling much better. At orientation and drinking coffee. I also conquered the very confusing 7/11 Danish coffee maker.
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