After less than one hour sleep I took an Alka-Seltzer and ate a snickers bar and headed to school.I felt surprisingly well, considering.The lessons went ok and at lunch time the dish was egg and tomato stir fry with rice.This is one of the best hangover foods I have found in China, coming second place only to egg fried rice.Thank you Chef, you saved me!Poppy came over to me in the kitchen and showed me her phone.It was baby pictures!I was really touched that sh...

We had a Curry night at Shush and Dean's.We didn't go there until quite late as everyone was busy with Christmas rehearsals.We began with poppadoms that you have to cook yourself so they were hot and fresh.Then Shush cooked a meat curry and a veggie curry.He'd been sent a recipe book from home and was going to attempt a chickpea curry for me, but when he couldn't find any chickpeas he used mushrooms instead.I was a little dubious about this substitution but it ...

Hong Yan was right; I woke up to see snow flurries outside.It was really cold and the snow fell for most of the morning, but it didn't settle.A Christmas present arrived in the post from England!I went to meet Echo in my lunch break and she helped me post some Christmas cards to people in England and also send home a parcel of all my summer things.I opted for the cheapest postage which means the parcel will take about 2 months to get home.After the parcel was s...

Liu Le Xuan turned up at my door at about 10am.I was no longer sick but I was feeling tired and weak so I was still in my pyjamas.She asked me to come with her and then Hong Yan called me and said the same.I didn't really feel like it, but I thought it was probably better than just moping.So I quickly got dressed and followed Liu Le Xuan back to her apartment.Then they told me they were going to shopping- well the translation tool on Hong Yan's phone actually s...

I woke up in the early hours of the morning with either a stomach bug or food poisoning.I was ill on and off for the next few hours and I just knew there was no way I could make it through work.I messaged Teacher Zhang at Happy Tree and Sherry at Wanhuatong and they both said they would tell the children.Later on I messaged Shush to say I wouldn't be able to come to the party at Lilly Coffee in the evening and Mohamed to tell him not to pre-prepare veggie food ...