So I'm proud to say that I survived my first week in China!! Not without its many problems of course! Shanghai is absolutely freezing, which was something I definitely was not prepared for! Something else I wasn't prepared for: the dorms. They're nice in the sense that they come fully furnished with individul bathrooms, and we don't have to share our rooms with anyone else. The formalities, however, stop there. The Chinese apparently don't believe in mattresses and thus we all sleep on box springs. The first night I had to use the dorm blankets and couldn't figure out how to turn my heat on because all the buttons are in Chinese so I got very little sleep because i was freezing and slept on something that felt like bricks. In fact, I still don't know
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