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Published: March 9th 2005
Around 26 hours after we left Atlanta, we landed in Shanghai. It was a long flight and we found everything from rich 'gringos' talking loudly at 3am about what they were going to buy once they get back home to some weird Ads for AIDS prevention in the airport of Japan. We also had a chance to see how pleasurable must be the experience of laying on a "massage chair" in one of the lounges at the Narita Airport (Japan) next to us, a japanese gentleman was moaning and moving in syncrinization with his chair.
The instant we arrived, I checked the pedometer I clipped to my pants before leaving the hotel in Atlanta. The pedometer showed that we had step 75 times in 26 hours... During a usual day at the LAA, I would step around 3,500 times.
Nobody asked anything in customs (good!) but what concerns me is that eventhough we have smiled to at least 25 chinese at the airport, nobody has smiled back... Not good.
After one hour, we arrive to the hotel. Is well located but the room is tiny, all the living room area is occupied by our 5 baggages. I start my inspection and find 26 hairs in my bed cover, totally upset, I go to the bathroom to wash my face and find 2 more hairs in the face towel (it sucks!).
There is no room in the kitchen for cooking (and we are suppose to stay here for a month!) the kitchen is actually a narrow hallway with the fridge to te left and a stove and a microwave to the right. The kitchen is also the location for the washer/dryer (all in one).
I have to say that we got a "Welcome basket" full of "delicatessen" such as: One orange, bottled water, instant noodle soup, 2 snickers and of course, prawn crackers. Omar is hungry and opens the cracker and immediately the magic properties (or smell) of that
bag of dried prawns have an effect and Omar loses his hunger.
Is our first night in Shanghai, is around 11 pm and we are going to bed with somebodyelse's hairs, no dinner and prawn smell.
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anonymous
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did you mean "human hair"?
gigi, I know that you 2 might have been feeling like Lost in Translation, but you seemed that night like Lost in a Hair Salon... It could have happened that: a) a previous guest was a hair stylist???... b) a previous guest was the lover of Sanzon? Sanson?...I mean...Dalila c) at that hotel the service is awful and has no class!!!! at all... maybe you could make a new "wig" for next Halloween's party...who knows. ka. - karin bra