I suppose there's nothing desperately new and exciting to update you on. We've gotten more comfortable getting around and figuring out where we want to go and what we want to do so it's more about repeating what we like rather than incessantly trying new things. Although there is still so so so SOOOO much in Shanghai to see. I dont think I could ever grow bored in this city. [Nina, seriously, so excited for you...] I still have to get used to transportation, which actually forbids me from venturing too far, but given enough time i swear i could figure out. The metro is actually probably easier to take then BART. & also the weather. It's just too damned hot here. This week is going to be the high 90s. & NOT EVERYWHERE IS AIR CONDITIONED! you try exploring a historical garden in 97 degrees.
The last couple nights have degenerated into bar-ing and clubbing because it's just THAT amazing here. Every morning we wake up and swear 'never again' but every night we somehow end up out again. I suppose I will probably never get to be quite as frivolous as this ever again, so i guess "when in shanghai..." Whenever I miss class (I swear only a few times!!) I just tell myself that I'll make up learning Chinese by talking to shopkeepers and bargaining. My mastery of the chinese language only extend to shopping & bargaining. & that only consists of "tai guai le, ni keyi pianyi yi dian, wo shi xuesheng, wo meiyou qian" (that's too expensive, can you make it cheaper, i'm a student, i dont have money). I still have to figure out phrases like YOU SUCK, and STOP RIPPING ME OFF, and THE QUALITY IS SHIT. Baby steps man.
So, because my days & nights have become a regulated pattern of eating, shopping and going out, the last couple days are slightly indistinguishable. I know that somewhere in the last few days there was shopping, eating and going out but for the life of me I could not tell you when and where. I know we hit up a lot of KFC and McDonalds (only place open 24/7) & i swear to god if i see one more french fry again i'm going to cry. I've eaten so much fast food here, more than like my whole life at home, it's ridiculous. I'm reading a book, recommended by my boyfriend dear, called "Foreign Babes in Beijing" which is actually really appropriate reading right now because it's about a girl who ends up getting a job at a PR firm in Beijing and just moves there by herself and it chronicles her adventures and getting used to life in China. She also randomly ends up getting a job on a Chinese soap opera as a foreign girl - kind of ends up playing herself on TV. Anyways, the book is pretty spot on and it's cool to be able to relate to her observations on a personal level ("oh my god i totally know what you're talking about" and the like). She talks about how the emergence of McDonald's has led to an increase in the obesity rate among children in China from 4ish% to 12ish% (oh the horror! what is it in America, like 85%???) and so a worried government increased funding on health & fat awareness (like pamphlets i guess?) i would say that i'm totally coming back fatter, if it wasn't for the fact that i drink about 10 water bottles a day, and sweat it out in my 1000 miles of walking a day.
lots of walking.
that and the dancing.
lots of dancing.
in related news, here are some pictures of a sunrise in shanghai:
it has come to my attention that i didn't ever come back to the title.
it's an address.
it's the address of the club Babyface.
it's the address we've told cab drivers for about 4 nights in a row.
it's the address of the sunrise pictures.
that is all.
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