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Last days in school.
... what are you doing? He had used my desk yesterday and had left some work on it and was really worried I was like its not even my desk its just where I sit! So after telling him not to worry and proving my point by tipping the contents of my pencil case all over the desk he finally stopped tidying! Then he quizzed me on if i had eaten breakfast. I hadn't! He very pleased to here this and wanted to take me out for breakfast but i didn't have time because i had ...
Subways and City Lights
... our room, and headed to the train station for a bullet train to Suzhou.
Returning to Shanghai Monday morning, we had delicious food in the hostel restaurant, set off to find an underground shopping Mecca recommended by Lonely Planet, had a good time bargaining and chatting amiably with laid back vendors (which was easy because their English is pretty good), bought some gifts for folks back ...
Shanghai Week 4- It's a Small World After All
... of place. I tried to convey that to my roommate, Mitchell, but it didn't go quite as well as I would have liked. Here's a snippet, doctored of course due to the fact that this conversation took place two weeks ago:
Me: "All of this just seems so unnecessary, doesn't it?
Mitchell: "Well, no. Everything here has a important purpose."
Me: "Well, I mean it just feels so fake, like they're flaunting wealth and grandiosity in our faces to impress us."
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Small victories...
... furrowed, "I WANT A BANANA!!!!!"
LInda's report card comment? "Linda is very confident speaking English."
2. I was born and raised in the boondocks.
In previous blogs I outlined the horrific ordeal that is my morning commute. In fact, if there is one thing that will push me over the edge with considerable ease, it is the Line 2 Metro. With my head in armpits and my feet under someone elses, my initial instinct is to scream, then cry. As this would ...
Touching Down
... first was that downtown Shanghai ended up being an hour taxi ride from the airport, and second was that it was impossible to see buildings more than half a mile away because of the smog. When I finally got down to Nanjing road I paid the driver the nice 175RMB for the ride and got out next to an older styled building that ended up just being a strip mall. I won't go into detail about most of the stuff I saw downtown just because I will have ...
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