I told the school that if they made me move out of the apartment I would refuse to live inside the school and move into Shush and Dean's spare room instead.I said if this happened I would need the school to pay towards bills and my travel expenses.Suddenly the school changed their mind and said I could stay until the end of my contract after all.I guess the owner was cheaper to pay off than I was!

I went Christmas shopping again as I needed to buy a gift for Echo, this time the shop was actually playing Christmas music!It was very exciting and I felt like it actually could be Christmas tomorrow after all.The Genius Baby Kindergarten had put up Christmas decorations too, they had made a Christmas tree out of sprite bottles so the fairy lights lit up each of the bottles.

As I was walking to my afternoon lessons at Flower Garden, I saw lots of the teachers stood on the main road and they were waving to me shouting "Hello" so I waved back and carried on walking.Then I heard my name being called and I looked round and they were running after me.They told me the school was closed for the afternoon and told me to get into the headmasters car to go to the show at Genius Baby.They let me sit in the front seat, as five of them squeezed into the back seat.

Some of the teachers did traditional Chinese dance for the show, which was really pretty to watch.The chef's assistant dressed up as Santa and was the skinniest Santa I think I've ever seen!He handed out sweets and fruit to the kids, and even gave me a handfulI ate the fruit and put the sweets to one side to take home, but one of the children stole them, I was not happy!

In the evening I went to the Lilly Coffee Christmas party.Mohamed made some really nice food- he had especially made me the Egyptian potato stew that I like as everybody else was eating meat.There were some Christmas games and he'd even made mulled wine so I got a bit tipsy.A gift had been left for me from the tall guys who had been in my movie group.It was a bright red Chinese knot with a lovely note "Nice to meet you here, it has become our precious memories.Remember that day, we were playing together.The scene, our performance drama often emerge in sight."The letter goes on, and then ends with their email address and "Keep in touch. Miss you.From your friends"