Thursday, 2 February

Twenty-first day of the twelfth lunar month, Yiwei year

In the past few days the weather has been bitterly cold. Such cold has not occurred in Paris for the past several decades. The weather yesterday reached a low of minus -12°C. Nine people died from the bitter cold. Today the temperature has dropped to minus -14.6°C, and fifteen more people have died as a result. There is restricted water supply in the place where I live, which puts me at great inconvenience.

Zhongxiong and Shaohua originally planned to return home yesterday. But they still have not come home today. I felt quite worried for them.