Hey everybody.

This will be my last blog from Shanghai. Tomorrow I will start my way back home. At 11 o'clock in the morning I will take the train to Kanton together with Anouk. We will arrive there on Monday at 6 o'clock in the morning so that will be a long long trip.

My last week in Shanghai was not a real success so I hope the upcoming week will be better. Last week Wednesday I came back from Xi'an.

On Thursday I went to sleep in the afternoon because I didn't feel that good. When I woke up in the early evening I had a pain in my chest. The next day when I woke up it was still there and I felt so weak. I asked a friend to do some shopping because I felt too weak to do it myself. Anouk and actually all the rest were traveling around or already home so I was happy I had made some Chinese friends. I also contacted the father of Yue Ying (Ming Ying)but he was in Nanjing (where he lives) for the weekend so we could meet on Monday. The whole weekend I stayed in bed because I felt so weak and everything was hurting.

On Monday and Tuesday I felt better again now I could do some shopping my own. On Monday I also went to see Ming Ying and he told me everything is fine I only have to take a lot of rest, eat a lot of vegetables and fruit so that is what I'm doing now. Someone told me to eat a lot of banana's so now I bought a lot of banana's and eat everyday 2 banana's.

On Wednesday it was very bad again (I think I just did too much on Tuesday). Although we planned a phone shoot with 2 France and 4 Dutch people in a graduation suit (everybody just came back from their trips) so I did my best to enjoy but I felt too bad so after a while I went back to my room and took a rest. I have a few pictures so I'm happy with that. In the evening I felt better because I slept the rest of the day. We went to have dinner with the 6 of us because Delphin (France) would go home that night.

On Thursday the friend (Tulip) of Anouk came to Shanghai. I rested again a lot and in the evening we had dinner with Flore (France) to say goodbye. It was together with her tango class. It was very nice and the food was very good. On Friday everyone was gone so and we went to the post office to send all our books home. Now we hope we will receive them.

I'm just finished with packing everything so I'm ready to go. Tonight we had dinner with Jenny (Chinese) and Anny (a girl who also lives in our dormitory). So that was our goodbye dinner but it was good.

I feel very strange, I have to say, because I know I probably will never come back.Today I feel pretty good so I hope it will stay like this for the upcoming week.

We will probably go 1 day to Kanton and after that to Hong Kong. It depends on when we can arrange a train ticket to Hong Kong. And then on Sunday get in the plane and fly back.

AND THEN MONDAY: HOME SWEET HOME!!!

Lots of love

And see you all soon.

Xx