It is 1.41am on a Friday night. I have packed my bags, talking to James on msn and reading a stupediously long email from Age!!! (Xie xie niii Adrian! Wo ai niii!!!! Wo ai eeeemmaaaillss!!) I dont have a lot of time on the net, so I cannot reply as much or as fast as Id like dooude... so the chances are I will reply once I get to Beijing.
Will: Yes I have been online on "normal" times like... say... 1pm 3pm, 10pm etc... ur just avoiding me... i know... i know when I am not wanted... Boo hooo.
Mom, Dad, Scott: I missed you guys at Christmas. I wished I was there to set up the Christmas tree as the tradition would have it... but yea. I was there in spirit! (Oh yea Scott... you met Adrian on the WRX forum... WEIRD!!)
Anywho... Shanggers... my time in Shanghai has been pretty good. The hostel where we are staying is perfect for students. In the common room you meet all the most randomness people from all around the world. We met 2 frenchies here who we watched a French movie called "taxi" with... pretty cool movie indeed. One of our friends on the tour met this Chinese girl and she came out with us last night.
Last night we went to Windows... which is a smallish bar with stupidly cheap drinks 10 Kuai ($1.60 AUD). It was pretty fun, it was all of the crew from the study tour, and some of our friends from the eastern states who were in my Beginner's Chinese class!!! We met these 2 Asian guys from Melbourne at the club too... one of them asked whether I knew chinese and said no... not a lot but I knew how to sing Tong Hua... so yea... we sung tong hua together despite the fact that the PCD were on!!! These Melbourne-ians were studying Chinese too, but were on a different program and at a different uni. Windows last night had quite a lot fo ex-pats actually... so it was pretty alright.
The thing about Shanggers what I like is... 1. the shopping and 2. the food,. I looooove the shanghai dumplings... they have this sauce in them so when you chew on it, the sauce just oozes out in your mouth..... *drool*. I am also loving the tawianese pancakes... actually they taste really good in Hangzhou... but hey... I still love them.
Shopping wise... I bought another jacket, a black one!!! Its not as puffy as my Whitchery white one and it looks soo cool. My whitchery one is now no longer white... its like grey and disgusting!! I am going to dry clean it in Hangzhou or Beijing I think. I also bought a pair of skinny jeans... Yea i NEVER thought id buy a pair but i needed to so i could wear boots! Which is a must here coz the grounds are soo muddy.
I also got a hair cut!!! Um yea... needs time to get used to. I showed the hairdressers a picture of penelope cruz... i wanted her fringe... but yea... it turnd out... different-ish.... AUGH!!! CHINAAAA!!!!
Anywho.. I better go... ill seee ya all lattersss!!!
Labels: China, Chinese, Clubbing, Culture, Friendship, Shanghai, Shopping
posted by anna at 1:41 AM