We are now on day 4 in Xi'an and it has been wonderful! The host families have been kind and understanding and the school is looking after us well. It has also been 4 days of visits to doctors - but luckily nothing too serious.
Our health issues began the day we left when Aurelien fell off a motorcycle and took off most of the skin from his shoulder (see the shoulder trend). He came to the airport bandaged up. So every day this week he has visited the school doctor to have it cleaned and bandaged. He is feeling much better! Then yesterday Amanda was not feeling well - the Chinese "revenge" and began running a fever. So we again visited the school doctor for the famous "brown liquid" that students have used in past years. It tastes awful, but works like a miracle. By evening time Amanda's fever was gone and she was hungry.
Then today Aurelien had his round with the "revenge" but I was ready with the "brown liquid" and two hours later he was playing an energetic round of ping pong. Meanwhile Kimi showed up in class with a shoulder that she had dislocated picking up her backpack (something that has happened before). So off to the school doctor again, but she wanted her seen by a specialist. Next stop the "hospital". There are no doctor offices here so any illness people go to the out-patient clinic at the hospital. Within 2 1/2 hours she had two doctor visits, x-rays and we got medication - for a cost of about $22. We returned to our classroom with Kimi's arm in a sling. This afternoon she painted and wrote characters with her left hand!
I'll put up a couple of pictures of the recovering patients. :)
Tomorrow we are off to see the Terra Cotta Warriors!
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