Yesterday was a busy and fun filled day in Shanghai. We are staying at the faculty club/hotel building of a university (Jiao Tong University) and the facilities are very nice and the meals are buffet style, which is awesome. Yesterday we started off the day with our first Chinese lesson, and had another one today. It's difficult, but I am trying hard to learn, and I am making pretty good progress. Out teacher is Jerry, one of the two student volunteers, and she does a great job (and yes, she knows her English name is a guy's name, but it is a homonym to her Chinese name, so she sticks with it). All of the Chinese people working for CIEE are wonderful, engaging, have spectacular English and have really made us feel welcome. We went to a modern art center, called "Red Town" yesterday, which was very cool. It was a big yard with galleries lining the streets surrounding it, and you can walk in and out of all of the different galleries. Afterward we went to dinner at a delightful vegetarian restaurant, with every type of imitation soy meat imaginable. We walked along most of historic Nanjing Road and headed to the Shanghai Centre Theatre for an acrobatic show, which was amazing and entertaining.
Like many other non-English speaking countries,
novelty tees with English phrases are popular here in Shanghai. Two of my favorites so far have been a red white and blue shirt with "Richard Petty for President" worn by a teenage Chinese boy and "I (heart) Naked" in the I (heart) NY design, worn by a Chinese teenager. Today is another beautiful day like yesterday, so hopefully this good weather will continue. The two photos are of the business district, one from atop the JinMao tower and one from the street.
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