Sunglasses at night

so. there is a massive outbreak of conjunctivitis in Nepal. Supposedly 20% of the population has it and pretty much all the members of my host family has had it or is having it. scary. You can tell the infected by the fact that they wear sunglasses all the time. not sure how effective it is in containing the virus except to ward people off. am always making mental notes not to touch my eyes and to always use purell. hopefully that works.
Just finished my first week of work, it was an unusual week because of the spinal cord injury conference and there really wasn't real work done because of all the presentations etc. My head of department is 25, a new grad and is a male chauvinist who likes to assert his power. He keeps on asking me if I've read his rules, and I kinda nod and then ignore him. I figure the best way to deal with him is to smile and nod and then ignore him as best I can. He is also a poor therapist, he gives all his patients standing hip ex and then expects them to stand on one leg. He is not hands on at all. Personally I would fail him if he were my student. Yes, that bad!! Then today he tells me I have to do 2 presentations on SCI syndromes and proper management. I think it's more because he's not sure what to do. I thought I was done with presentations! Plus I have to work 6 days a week!! on another note, this conference was really cool because I met many interesting people. There's this Bangladeshi doctor who seems quite amazing, he is a neurosurgeon/urologist/plastic surgeon/neurologist/physiatrist all in one!! How cool!! And his son goes to York university so I think he took a liking to me (being Canadian and all). And!! I met this really cool PT who is involved with Handicap International who basically implemented this SCI network in Vietnam/Cambodia/Thailand. He is so interesting and has accomplished so much in the time he's been there, and he's invited me to come visit early next year when I'm in Cambodia and he'll take care of my visas and all!!
I'm slowly getting over my culture shock, it has taken a while which surprised me because I thought I was pretty easy going and all. But all the pollution, dirt, throngs of people, noise and bustle really got to me. Added to the fact that I may have sinusitus and feel like crap. So, if anyone has good remedies for this problem, please let me know becasue I don't trust the doctors /chemists here in giving me the right meds.
Whew, long post. Will hopefully have pics up soon!