It's my birthday!!!! *Whistles, cheers and party poopers going off in all directions while a drunken white boy violently vomits into our bathroom sink which I had literally just finished bleaching the same day, dammit Callum!* Hoo! Yeah, so originally we were going to have everybody come down to Karamay to play laser tag, but as it turned out, just about everybody was broke at the time and couldn't really afford/be arsed travelling down to Karamay, so the group...

Back again! My Mum came to visit me here in Karamay this week and I don't think I've ever been so pleased to see that woman in my entire life. She was freaking out so much on Skype just before leaving for China and asked me to meet her at her hotel at 10am on the 5th. When I met her at the hotel I hugged her for about a minute and I'm not ashamed to admit I got a little teary-eyed at her being here. Not as much as her though, f***, she filled up the Yangtze River...