Blogs from Pudong, Shanghai, China, Asia - page 13

since thursday night, i have had laundry to hang up and more to put in the washer. So Friday morning at 9am i met up with Peggy at her house and the four of us (her mom, cousin/sister, her, and I) went to the store. I have to say cousin/sister because there is a one child policy in Shanghai. If you have more than one child, you must pay a fee. Upper class families will have many children. Lower & middle class families call their cousins their brothers and sisters. I took lots of pictures in the store of the different products they told me about and then of her mom cooking. the store was a walmart, most of the pictures are in the last update. There is both dark and light soy sauce and of ... read more

So at great risk of repeating the same weekend I had last week, I decided to start the weekend the same by going to Peggy's house on Friday. She sister/cousin was there; she is in middle school and around fourteen. She doesn't speak that much english and I had to really drag the english out of her, but it was fun. They are nice good people. Peggy's mom cooked lunch again and I'm afraid that I may be falling for Chinese cuisine. We had the caramelized pork, shrimp, shredded pork, etc. It totaled around eight dishes again. Afterward we decided to make a cake we had been planning and did some research on the internet. We looked at lots of recipes, but in the end Peggy's said she knew how to make a cake. Peggy read ... read more

Y asi como desgraciadamente la seleccion se despidio del Mundial( aca se sintio menos por suerte, no quiero imaginar el bajon que hay alla) ayer sabado a la tarde me despedi de Beijing y hoy finalmente llego el dia, me despido de Shanghai. Todavia es muy pronto para reflexionar demasiado ( ademas son las 6 menos veinte de la matina y no dormi) pero me estoy despidiendo de una ciudad que me fue mas que amable en todo sentido, aun con la enorme dificultad del idioma imposible que se habla aca, aun con la distancia entre las costumbres de ellos y las nuestras, en ningun momento senti hostilidad. Bah, en realidad cada 10 minutos cuando los chinos se me colaban en las filas del subte o de cualquier otra cosa, o me empujaban me daban ganas ... read more

Captain's Log Stardate 20:41:01::06:29:2010 Location Shanghai China on the day i turned 21, June 29th, i watched chile y brazil in the play offs for the world cup. it came on at 2:30 am in China and i watched the whole thing. instead of sleeping though work the next day, i called in sick. i do nothing there anyways. i Instant Message-ed my boss because i don't have her number and calling the company would be pointless since no one else speaks english. i assumed she would get the message when she arrived, but she was in an car accident. she is fine, but she arrived very late which meant the other american intern called me. she only works 2 days a week and i work 4 days. i wrote and mailed 6 post cards last ... read more

We arrived in Shanghai on the 22nd. During our 4 and a half day stay, we endured the World Expo for 4 of those days. The Expo brought out the most cut-throat Chinese people I have ever seen in my life. These people had endurance and all sorts of tactics that you just wouldn't ever expect to see in your life. These are some of the highlights and common sights of the expo: - LONG LONG LONG line-ups: It seems that everyone but us had raided the mini-stool and chair store before heading to the expo. Most people would squat down on these micro chairs during the horrific lines on the way into the pavilions. They also packed an entire kitchen of everything you can imagine, loafs of bread, buns, miscellaneous meat bags, cucumbers, apples, etc. ... read more