Email from China on Aug 4, 1998

Hi sweetie,  the electricity was off here for a while, so I couldn't get
on-line at lunch.  It's about 2:30 now.  I have tons of work to do, so I
can't write a long message like I thought I could.  I have lots of great
things to tell you though (to post on the net),  so I'll try to write them
in the next few days. I woke up this morning at 4:30 with some serious
stomach cramping and then spent a half hour in the bathroom in the dark
(the electricity was out).  We think the mosquitos planned the whole thing
because while I was in the bathroom in the dark, I got three mosquito
bites!!  They are officially ahead on the scoreboard.  I took some
medication … and I was feeling much better by classtime at 8 a.m.   Sun
had come in to eat lunch with us yesterday and had shared her
lunch with us (it was a meat dish from a restaurant).  It was delicious, but
evidently it was bad, because all the teachers who had ordered this take-out
lunch from the restaurant ended up on the toilet early this morning.  She
was going to go back to the restaurant and complain.

I don't know yet how bad packing will be.  We're raffling off a lot of the
teaching materials to the students tomorrow.  That will lighten the load.
But we have a lot of gifts that we have received.  We have given away many
of the gifts that we brought and we will be giving away many more before we
leave.

I must go get a LOT of work done . . . more later.  Thanks for the note from
your mom.

I love you!!  Sally

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