Goodbye air conditioning, goodbye hot shower.. i will miss you!

I have just come back from an interesting experience at the local private hospital. its nothing serious, although im glad i decided not to take a hot air balloon ride in Yangshuo as a westerner did not look too good as he was wheeled into another ambulance with a neck brace on- the result of a crash according to Jimmy. I have had stomach issues for quite a long time now, and when it stopped me climbing the other day because i had no energy, i thought i should get it checked out while Jimmy could act as my interpretor and i was near a good hospital.
we walked in there yesterday morning and jimmy walked into a partitioned room and started talking to the doctor even though he appeared to be dealing with another patient. the patient left however and i relayed my symptoms through jimmy to the doctor. the doctor suggested a blood test and stool test and gave me various receipts which i then took to a desk to pay for this delight in advance. jimmy then ushered me into the blood room which was full of patients sitting there in rows with drips in their hands, the drips hanging on metal hooks from the ceiling. the hooks reminded me of a butchers, but i shook that thought from my mind as the nurse told me to sit down right there and got her needles ready- in front of everyone! luckily i didnt embarrass myself and faint! i was handed the tubes of blood and then had to go to the labratory (as they spelt it!) to hand them over. lots more of jimmy running around like a headless chicken and shouting at various desks and we were done! (its often hard to tell if the Ch!nese are having an argument or just a friendly chat becasue of the intonations they use!). the stool test i put off until today, and we went there first thing. i was pointed towards a little plastic cup and a stick. the normal squat toilet with no lock on the door, no soap or toilet paper did not feel the most hygenic. neither did walking out of the toilet with the stick in my hand for the man behind the desk! the whole thing felt very embarrassing!! the verdict was that im eating too much oily, fatty food. which doesnt solve a lot! but i got to have a nosy around a Ch!nese hospital which was facinating!
Chinaclimb opened their bar yesterday after a revamp they worked flat out on for 4 days. it was nicely done, and we went along for their opening to celebrate Sarahs birthday.
we are moving to bush camp tomorrow as Yangshuo suddenly gets very expensive becasue there is a national festival- 60 years of the peoples republic of Ch!na, and another festival of some kind. lots of flowers and decorations have appeared around the streets and in the park. we are moving near the river to camp, in the centre of most of the climbing. danny has been feeling generous and aloud us to not cook for the rest of yangshuo. there is a nearby restaurant so we have been given normal food money to eat where we want. we will have regular trips into town anyway i expect and its only for 6 days. im off climbing when the guys get back from their big breakfast.
P.S. anyone who has messaged me on facebook- facebook is blocked throughout Ch!na so i cant access it until we move on to Laos in a couple of weeks time.

Goodbye air conditioning, goodbye hot shower.. i will miss you!

Yangshuo, China