Heya all!!!

The last few days have been busy busy busy...

Xingqiwu
Friday we went to Shanghai for the weekend! It was pretty cool!!! The crew that went included:
Me
Megan
James
Quentin
Qiao
Melissa
Deddy
Amy
Jose
Gabrielle and Guillaumes (who we met up with later on)

The train ride there was pretty alright, though I slept most of the time. When we arrived we took the subway to get to the city centre... and WOAH Shanghai is huge!!! Busy busy busy... hussle and bussle all the way! We all carried our stuff around with us (Megan and I being the noobs and bringing a suitcase whereas everyone else had brought backpacks) while we were finding accomodation. This actually took longer than we thought as the place that we had intended to stay at was closed down. So... Megan and I took everyone's stuff and went to starbucks while the group split up to find accomodation.

Eventually... we found a place which was near by to Starbucks... and we checked in. The weird thing about it was that they only really preferred people with Chinese passports. I was like what the hell? But it ended up being ok. Quentin, Megan and I had to stay outside the hotel while the others arranged the rooms just in case... yea...

It was already late... about 5ish or 6ish when we decided that we were to get ready to go out to Bonbon Club but to go have dinner before hand. Megan's friend Sam came to our hotel to hang with us that night. Hes a pretty cool fella... he really made me miss Australia... the humour and everything.

Anywho... dinner ended up being quite troublesome. We couldnt find a place where we wanted to eat in this food court... so I ended up eating from "BreadTalk" (they have it in Singapore). It was still quite early when most of us had finished so I went back to the hotel with Melissa, Qiao and Jose. At about 10.30pm we get a call from the others saying they had already arrived at Bonbon, so off we went. Deddy and Amy arrived at the hotel and went to the club with us. The club is pretty awesome from what I can remember. Open Bar once again... and Yea... I felt like I really needed to catch up with the rest... so I went hard... I danced for a little while, and then went to get a few more drinks. I remember trying to speak some mandarin with the barman... saying "Wo yao ni he dongxi!" eventually he drank with me. hahaha. after that Jose took my drinks for me... and the night pretty much ended for me at 1am.

The rest stayed out till about 3am... I was awoken by Sam who jumped into the bed next to mine and we talked for a bit.

Xingqiliu
The next morning... I was really really really tired! Stories of what happened at Bonbon made me so jealous and annoyed how I K.O so early!! C'Mon!!!! I never K.O and the night I do... THINGS HAPPEN!! Like Megan had this voice recording of James being an Indian Telemarketer...

We all ended up going out for brunch at the foodcourt where we attempted to eat the night before. Afterwards we explored this department store with all these brands like Roxy, Evisu at a semi cheaper price. I didn't end up getting anything. We then went to this Market which is in a trainstation where I bought these cute dog toys... (sad I know) and then I bought this black clutch. This clutch is pretty nice... though I didn't really want it. The lady at the store said the price was 280 Kuai... I was like... hell no... tried to walk away but she clutched to my arm... Better price she said... I was like... eh what the hell.. 50 kuai... she was on be for ages saying that 50 was nothing and blah blah blah... eventually though she said 60... and I was like hao de.

After that... we all had dinner at beloved KFC and then headed to Indoor Skiing!!!! It was soo fun man!!! We all went snowboarding... except for Gabrielle who skied (which was smart because he did'nt end up having a wet butt), but yeaaa snowboarding rocks!!! I find that it is hard getting used to going down side on... and you need to be able to shift ur weight to turn... that was the hardest part. Oh the interesting thing... is that if we are talking skateboarding terms... I am not regular. I am... weird. In that I prefer to snowboard with my right foot in front instead of the left. So yea... I am weird.

I made my first attempt down from the middle of the ski slope which was ok.. cause I did not fall over. Afterwards for my second attempt I went to the very top. It was awesome!!! but frekking scary shit! I was like... Yea baby lets go! I shuffled my board and off I went. I started picking up speed and I was like heeeeeelll yeaaaaa... Anna... pro!!! but then I realised that I started getting too fast AND I could not stear properly. So it then hit me that shiiiiit... I am going to crash into people so I started screaming and swearing my lungs out... I was going down sooo fast... people where turning around and like jumping out of the way... eventually when I reached the bottom I didnt know how to stop, so I made myself fall over. I was pretty proud that I did not fall over... but thats not skill.

The rest of the time there we attempted jumps! That was awesome fun! Quentin started it first because he is really good.. (damn him.. he makes snowboarding look easy and effortless) He did a jump which I thought was crazy... but then after that Deddy who was like... first timer as well, attempted the jump too... after that everyone was doing it... and then eventually Megan and I decided to try too. It was really scary... like whether I could aim my board to the jump was my main concern... but yea... that was no problem... the problem was after the jump... landing... hahaha... that I never figured out... but I did leave with videos of crazy stacks... unfortunately I didn't get the stack where I flipped over... it looked and felt pretty serious... Willy and Deddy were like shiiiitttt....

Our night ended when James made a pretty nasty fall from the jump. I was already winding down when I saw this crazy jump... and yea... the dooude did not get up... I then saw Quentin and all our friends drop thier gear and run to the guy... thats when I realised... shit... man... something has happened. It was James and he was not moving! When I got there, he was conscious but in pain. His back was messed up... but after a few mins he was ok... but it gave us the biggest scare!!! His back today is still a little sore. But ok...

The rest of the night we all just chilled at the hotel as we were all pretty buggered. Sunday was mainly just all of us returning back to Hangzhou... but in the morning Megan and I got up early to have a morning walk to the river and to see the Shanghai city skyline which is sooo cool! It made me realise how much more of Shanghai I would like to see.

Pics will be up soon... i dont have my usb!!!!

Labels: China, Chinese, Clubbing, Friendship, Shanghai, Shopping, Sport, Travel