Who Needs Fire?

A few days ago, I went to a restaurant that I have been to so many times before. It is across the street from my school. It’s owned by a family. I have gotten to know them quite well over the last couple of years. They also have a nine-year-old boy who just loves to talk. I was in there about a week ago, and he asked me what American Money looks like, and what I thought about Chinese Money. So, a few days ago, I went back to there, and I took some American Money. He was fascinated by it. He was very confused as to why it was all green. In China, 5, 10, 20, 50, and 100RMB bills are all different colors. He also found it fascinating that we have denominations as small as a penny and a nickel. In China, prices are only calculated to the tenth, so the smallest coin that they have is a tenth of an RMB. As we were having the discussion, the father, grandmother, and cook also joined in. They to had never seen American Money and were very curious. I’ve since come to understand their fascinatio

It seems that some promises die hard. I said that I would try to be better about keeping my blog updated, but it seems that I’ve been worse about it. Well, it’s been a crazy few months. My eye is continuing to improve. There have been a lot of complications along the way. First, my condition was misdiagnosed. The doctor told me that I had viral conjunctivitis, but I really had viral kerititis (which is a problem with the cornea). I was also allergic to one of the eye drops that he prescribed. It got to the point where my eye was the color of blood, and I couldn’t even open it. I got really frustrated. I ended up going to a specialist in Shanghai, and he figured out the problem. He told me to discontinue the medication. As soon as I stopped taking the drop that I was allergic to, it started to clear up. He was then able to see the real problem. The virus was creating small holes in my cornea. He prescribed another anti-viral drop which eliminated the virus. However, the damage remains.