15th Feb'Rise up this morning, smiled with the rising sun' As Bob Marley used to sing but this is the case. An over whelming sense of happiness takes over, right from nowhere. Some mornings I don't wake up with a beaming smile on my face, it is the morning remember, mornings are always too early! I'll take my usual path to school, unless the weather is bad and so the crowded bus it is. 'clank' as I push open the glass door into All Young School. "Hello!"...

6th Feb"Do you speak English?" I ask a Nurse. She rushes off bringing another Nurse with her. "Yes?" I pull my scarf down, showing her my neck and she only needs to look at my face; Today I woke up the dryest face I've ever had. You just needed to touch my face and skin flaked off. Moisturiser just wasn't penetrating my skin, nothing was working and I was looking my worst during this whole allergy process. "No doctor until Wednesday"...

新年快樂 - HAPPY NEW YEAR1st FebTo do list:Write a '100 things to do whilst in China' listLast day at school. Yipee!!Hot Pot restaurant: A little gas stove each and a pot full of water with spices. On the menu you select what you'd like to cook; Vegetables, noodles, meats. Everything is brought out and you cook your dinner in your pot, picking away at whatever you want.Leaving the hot pot restaurant my face was burning up. Returning back to the apartment it l...

29th JanChecklist:Bought delicious, big StrawberriesMoved roomsBirds flutter past the window as I watch from the bed. I have finally moved rooms! The first room had a small window, requiring you to stand to look out. But in this room you can see the sky, the sun rising, the stars twinkling, as I look out to the South. The bedroom and bathroom are so much bigger, no worries about hitting my leg on the corner of the bed, or squeezing myself between the sink and sho...

27th Jan"Do you like Fish?" Felix asked me. "Erm well not really, but I want to like it" Regretting my answer as soon as I said it! "Okay we'll go out for dinner one night, I'll take you out for raw fish" Ahhh...So tonight Felix, Beth and myself headed to a Japanese resturant just behind the apartment. We decided to sit on the chairs, than on cushions for the next several hours of eating and drinking. This was a 'eat/drink all you ca...