Vain attempt.. To add a member to the Tang family...

My dear sister received quite an interesting and original present from a boy in her class.. A small round box (about 7cmx7cm) with... A small mouse inside!!!

All of her classmates were very exited, so was my sister! As soon as the bell rang, she hurried out of her classroom, ran down the stairs, to show me her cute little friend, who's name is 小达.

I smiled, unlike others I don't like touching animals.. She noticed my face was a little strange.. And asked "what's wrong sister??"

I just answered "nothing nothing. It's gorgeous!"

But in fact, I was thinking : "she wants to take this home... Oh my God she is simply dreaming. That will never happen, impossible.."

Yeah.. Our mother is particularly attentive to hygiene.!

That evening, I went out for dinner with some college students I met in Xin Jie Kou, they learn French, are very outgoing, gave me adorable presents!

I came back home a little late, after a walk with them.

From the elevator, on the 17th floor, I started hearing a woman shouting.. My mother. (We live on the 19th..)

When I came into the flat, lots of things weren't in place, it was a mess. My sister and my mother were having a big argument, it turned into a fight..

My sister was desperately trying to keep my mother away from 小达...

Trying to prevent her from killing it: this was her intention!

My mother was furious.. And, honestly, I was afraid. I went to my bedroom.. The noise calmed down about half an hour later. I went to see my sister.. She was crying, her jumper soaked by her tears.. I told her:

"Give me 小达 in her box, I shall go outside, and hide it somewhere safe in the building while mother is having her shower. Then I shall go and recuperate it tomorrow morning. Or she will kill it. You can just tell her you let it go outside."

She replied "no.. I can.. I will fight my best to insure his safety, at least for this night."

We took it back to school the next day, both trying to think about someone good enough to keep it. My sister came down, smiling, singing, and announced her head teacher had allowed them to keep 小达 in her classroom! He would be the symbol of the class 11!

In the afternoon I had my Friday Chinese lesson, and talked about this with Lisa, my Chinese teacher. (When she invited me for lunch that day)

She saw the picture of the box and said " oh! If she stays more than 3days in there, she will die"

She took me to her home, and gave me her own cage. She's so generous, and caring!

While she was cleaning it, she proudly did the tour guide "here you have the bathroom, the first floor has a little house, the bed, I make it cosy with some soft fabric, the food bowl here, this is a way to go to the second floor..."

When I went back to school at 2pm, holding this in my arms, I can't even describe the welcome I had. Like cheering creams, and when I came in my sisters classroom, all the students eyes, sparking as if they had seen Santa Claus!

The 47 students gathered around the table, yelling "HOW GREAT THIS IS" "SO PERFECT" !!!

I had rarely seen my sister so happy!

小达 now stays comfortably in the classroom 11, many students from other classes go and greet him. The teacher (it helps to have a biology teacher as head teacher..) takes him home every week end!

It seems I (... Or should I say Lisa) saved the day! I received many messages on my QQ, "thank you so much" "小达's cage is perfect!!"