For most of the week I took things rather easy as I had a really painful elbow and shoulder, both on the left side. These were both very painful and I was a bit concerned because it happened to be on the side that was affected during my car accident. However I wasn't too concerned because I thought it was related to the new form I was learning which might have caused me to over extend my arms a couple of times during training.
That week I had also spoken to the Chinese teacher to tell Jacki to go to the beginners class because the other students including myself believe she would be better off there. The teacher said she agrees however she can't tell her to change classes or she might get into trouble from the administration. I had to go about telling her to change classes which was more difficult than I thought, because I didn't want to offend or upset her even if I thought she was a bit of a spastic. She told me she likes being in our class because it suits her better and that she can learn faster because we are more advanced than the other class. I explained to her that it doesn't work like that with a language, especially with a language like Chinese in which the four basic fundamental tones need to be fully grasped and understood before learning how to formulate sentences and questions. She was rather upset and walked off, she then asked all others in our class if they agreed with me and they all said yes including the teacher. Later that day she did apologised for storming off, I think she thought I had some kind of personal vendetta against her.
On Friday we trained in the castle and there were many tourists because spring had finally arrived, they ended up taking hundreds of pictures of us foreigners.
Later that afternoon I went to Siping to get an X-ray of my should and elbow. The hospital was a pretty scary place, it looked really communistic but I had a friendly nurse that helped me out. I asked for an x-ray of my shoulder and elbow and they just said ok, back home you can't just ask for an x-ray. The results were good, the elbow was perfect, the screw from my surgery was not interfering in any way and my shoulder was just a bit swollen. The doctor told me to take some medicine but I didn't bother getting it.
On the weekend I went to Yehe and bought some building supplies, nails, hammer, saw and rope. When I got back to the academy Chima, Harry, Thomas and I went off to the forest to start building a tree house, by Sunday we had built quite a lot.
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