I hope you all have a great day with your family, friends or whoever you are celebrating with! Be thankful for what you have. 

While I am still struggling through my homesickness because of being away for the holiday I am still so thankful for the amazing experiences I have had in the past 5 months. It took me years to finally work up the courage to move abroad to teach and I have definitely experienced things I NEVER thought I would. I’ve met some great people that I hope to remain friends with for years to come. I’ve also developed an even better appreciation for home and my family & friends! 

Well it’s Monday again…so quickly.
Remember how I said I wasn’t going to do a damn thing this weekend? Well that was almost true. Even though I had a bum foot and awful cough I still managed to get talked into going to the bar on Friday night. I’d like to say they did a good job convincing me but I really just needed a drink. Unfortunately all the smoking in the bars here made my cough way worse and I regretted it along with the hangover the next day. Then I proceeded to lay about my apartment with my foot up for most of Saturday and Sunday. Sunday night I met up with a director from another school to talk about maybe working some part time tutoring in the side. Score for a free dinner!

So that brings us to Monday. I went back to the hospital today to discuss how the 4 medications I was given have had no effect and how it quite possibly is the pollution that is causing all these problems and not because I don’t drink enough Chinese tea. I was given 4 more medications, told to avoid fried foods, drink more water and not to exercise outside. Yep. 4 more medications. Got to love Chinese hospitals.

So yea…that is my story. Here are some photos to back it all up.

With the teachers at the bar 🙂

Dr.pepper shot…tastes like it. Also what put me into the sick bin!

First set of medications

My poor foot

Dyed my hair back to black! Which apparently my co-teacher does not like it. Know how I know? She told me so today. Said Oh you dyed your hair? I don’t like it. Have to love the Chinese. 

My 2nd set of medications 🙁

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So I know I am a day late but yesterday I got home from work and slept. Woke for an hour made a post on my phone(where most of my pictures were anyway) and then realized I can’t use Blogger on my phone because its banned in China. Yay me. NOT. 

So here I go a day late trying to make a post! 

It was a good weekend! Friday evening me & SouthAfrican got lost trying to take a new bus to the grocery store. After getting to the end of the line in a not so friendly part of China we realized we were mistaken, walked back about 20 mins and waited for a cab. Turns out we were on the complete opposite end of town. Saturday GCgirl and I went spent the day shopping, had a Starbucks break and then some more shopping and Sushi. It was just like being at home..except everyone around us spoke Chinese and the only store with pants that fit was H&M haha! We met up with a bunch more foreign teachers at the bar and even though I knew I had to be up early for a sunday field trip with my students & parents I got home at 4am drunk. Smarty pants that I am. Sunday was actually quite nice despite my roaring hangover. The park we visited was quite beautiful and the weather allowed me to wear jeans w/out dying from heat stroke. 

Sooo now that I am done typing away you can look at the pictures!!! 

Mango Passionfruit Tea!

delicious sashimi!

Girls day out 🙂

two Canadians & one American 🙂

around 3am 🙂

OOoh my god yes a Strongbow!!

entrance to the park!

some of my cuties doing 5 little monkeys with me

They had a little kiddie river the kids could fish in

Cheese!

My chinese co-teachers!

Have to stop and smell the roses!

Great part of having Chinese people with you is they always want to take your picture everywhere!

They know how to pack a lunch!

One last one 🙂

That was my weekend!