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May 26, 2008
Shanghai
Shanghai was pretty much one of the most interesting trips imaginable. It started off pretty awful considering our original hotel was about 2 hours away from downtown and an hour away from any subway stop. All the kids whined enough and somehow we got switched to a different hotel that was much closer to real Shanghai and only a 5 minute taxi to a subway stop.
The full story would take me about 2 or 3 hours to type up, and I need to start reading for the exam since tomorrow I'll be out all day and Thursday I need to actually study. In a really quick nutshell:
Saturday:
-Went to Urban Planning Museum, which has a scale model of what Shanghai will be in 2010. It takes up the entire third floor of the building and is extremely cool.
-Walked around Renmin Park, one of the largest parks/gardens in the world.
-Dinner at a really awesome restaurant for a kid on our program & his twin brother's birthday (21 from Michigan, 16 from NYU who are studying in Shanghai)
-Spent the night at a club near downtown with all 37 people, the twins paid for tables and lots of alcohol. Good music too. Awesome time
Sunday:
-Went to the top of some of the tallest buildings in the world. Couldn't see much because of the awful smog.
-Walked around Old Town Shanghai and the Yuan Gardens (a meditation sanctuary)
-Spent the rest of the afternoon at a teahouse
-Went to dinner at a really good dim-sum place
-Spent the night walking around the Bund (Shanghai Skyline on the water) and at a bar on top of a tower
Posted by brianhe at May 26, 2008 05:37 AM