Sick of being sick

In three days, it will have been a month since I left America for China. For the 27 or so days I've already been here, I have been absolutely nothing but sick, sick, sick. I'd go into the details, but let's just say that I've been alternating between one, erm, toilet problem to another at a fairly rapid face. Try as it might, my stomach just can't adjust to any food here. I've heard multiple stories of foreigners coming here having to spend weeks in the hospital from the food. I'm not that bad, thankfully, but good God, fatty, crappy American food is going to be like heaven to come home to.

I'm sick of being sick, because that means that I spend most of my days not straying all that far from the toilet. I'm sick of being sick because I know people assume I'm using it as an excuse, when really, the times I do decide to throw caution to the wind and go out and try to live a little, I always end up rushing back home because I need to use the toilet so bad. I'm sick of being sick because it drains me of my energy, makes it difficult to sleep, and just hurts. I have seventeen more days here, but I know I'm going to spend most of those either in my room or feeling paranoid about how close I could find a western toilet to wherever I'll be, and that's not fun at all.

Today we had to teach some little kids, and it was kind of a nightmare, because I don't speak Chinese and the kids were all at different levels and, surprise surprise, we weren't given any sort of plan at all. I need to find a generic plan that will be easy for the real little ones without being boring for the more advanced students. Sigh.

Our AC is broken.

We lose net around July 10th, so if I disappear in a week, please don't worry too much about me (if you're inclined to, that is). Til then, all I want to do is plug the Firefox plugin "Tor" (Google it), because it has absolutely destroyed the Chinese firewall. I can visit websites again! If I don't get sick first.