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Poisoned Plates: A Foreign Student's Nightmare
Scenario:Taotao Yu is a student from China who is studying at a further education college in central England. Six weeks into the course, she goes to the nearby city of Birmingham with her friends from the course Wen, Wei and Angela. Taotao has a prawn dish, her friends all have chicken dishes. The next day Taotao wakes up with a very bad pain in her stomach and she has to rush to the toilet where she has bad diarrhoea. She makes many urgent visits to the toilet all day and is in very bad discomfort. The next day, Wen gets some rehydration sachets for Taotao and the day after, with the toilet visits being never-ending, gets her some kaolin medicine. Taotao's condition soon starts to improve and she's able to eat plain foods like rice, bananas and toast, but it's not until the end of the week when the horrible diarrhoea finally ends, even though the medicine helped reduce it. Taotao thinks she's had salmonella. She's back at college on Monday and her strength has returned
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Angela Smith
fellow student and friend to Taotao and the others from the course
Wei Zhang
fellow student and friend to Taotao and Wen, friends with Angela, athletic build with short hair, humorous and supportive
Wen Li
fellow student and friend to Taotao, friends with Wei and Angela, tall with glasses, caring and resourceful
Six weeks into my further education course at a college in central England and I was finally getting used to the place.
The work was not too hard and I was making friends with a few of the students on the course.
Wen Li, Wei Zhang and Angela Smith were my favourites.
Wen was tall, dark and slender with glasses perched on the end of his nose.
He had a kind face and was always willing to help.
Wei was shorter than Wen, had short dark hair and an athletic build.
He was more laid back than Wen and had a great sense of humour.
Angela was a pretty blonde blue eyed English girl who spoke little Chinese, but made an effort to communicate with us.
The four of us would often go out for a meal together after college.
I loved trying all the different types of food this country had to offer.
One day, we decided to head to Birmingham for a meal.
