WARNING: LONG BLOG AHEAD. If you don’t have 20 minutes to kill, just skim through the photos. It was my great luck to happen to be training in Shanghai while the World Expo was taking place. Any world expo would be a sight to see, but one in China, now that has got to be a show. China seems to be treating the expo as a sort of “Olympics: Part Two”. The whole country has expo fever. Statues of the Shanghai World Expo Mascot - Haibao (that’s pronounced “hi” as in “hi, how are you doing” and “bow” as in “please bow before the emperor”) - are seen everywhere you look, TVs play never ending commercials showing children from around the world playing together, and as soon as the dusk of evening falls the sidewalks become
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