Pills, Pills, Pills! 약은 아주 비쌌어요!

After teaching today, I left school quickly so that I could get my prescriptions necessary for my trip (see here for an account of my doctor's visit). It was a fairly easy and painless process but for a few things. The pills I got were not cheap. For a total of 120 doses (1 per day) of my antimalarial medicine (doxycycline) and 56 doses (2 cycles of 2 pills 2 times a day for 7 days) of an antibiotic (ciprobay) - just in case - I paid 103,000 won (approximately $91 Canadian at the current exchange rate). I wonder what the cost would be back home. Incidentally, the majority of that cost was the ciprobay, not the antimalarials.

The second thing (and this worries me a bit, but it probably will amount to nothing) is the lack of labelling on my pills (see the picture below). My name is not on the bottle, nor is it on the prescription (well, it is in Hanguel: 마이클, but that's not likely to be understood by customs officials in Tanzania). We'll see what fun things this will lead too.