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Travel Blogs from Shanghai
Teaching Tribulations
... to submit the results to the company, and also I will give certificates to the top performing students. She said she meant that I can just fabricate the results and not tell anyone.
It's nice to feel like your hard work is so highly valued...
Obviously I'm not going to be dishonest as she suggests but will have to reduce the number of questions I ask each student to two each instead of four. *Sigh*
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Discovering Shanghai, making new friends
... ABC bank. But finally everything seems sorted except for the schoolbooks and such which we will have to purchase on Friday.
On Wednesday we had a campus tour which wasn’t particularly extensive, it was especially useful to know that we can only get in to the libraries with our student cards, which we don’t get until the end of the month. Chinese logic if you will. In the afternoon I went with a couple of girls into town by bus and two ...
Shanghai, China
... embarked to help navigate through the outer shipping lanes before beginning our 6-hour, 69 miles pilotage through the inner shipping lanes, narrow channels and the River Yangtze up to Shanghai, and our berth in the heart of the city at Waigaoqiao. We arrived at about 3:30 in the morning, though we received our clearance at about 7:00 am. We had to clear customs with a face-to-face & passport inspection ...
Caught up up with everything at last
Having made good progress on the blog front yesterday I decided to just carry on with that today and I am finally writing this on the actual day. I've paid for another 5 nights here which takes me up to the 29th … and I'm up to song number 397 of 5242 n my iPod. That's the extent of my excitement for today!
I'll probably just eat here tonight. I hadn't bothered enquiring about food here because Al had said he had a look ...
Thus far
... since everyone was "fighting" to make sure that their plate was full. then we became more civilized but the food was terrible.
3. am now in shanghai, i was never a fan of shanghai food and to be truthful, there is no real shanghai-nese delicacy aside from the dragon dumplings which i plan to have tomorrow
In summary, im having a good time. i see china's landscape changing yet again and it's an impressive change. the bars and nightlife in shanghai is dope but i get ...