Wednesday, June 27, 2007

one last one for the night

Things I have tried in Shanghai that I can now cross off my list of things to do:

Walk to the Bund
Ate mysterious meat
Drink a Tsingtao
Eat at the Chinese canteen that my firm provided ( great food. HORRENDOUS filthy atmospher, floor, everything else)
Get picked up by a prostitute on Huaihua

Things that I'm deal with on a daily basis:

-Dodging cars, mopeds, and bike on the side walk ( at least 10 times today)
-Figuring out what is that mysterious smell ( 5 this afternoon)
-Almost getting hit by either a car, a moped or a bike crossing the street ( 3 today)
-Side stepping so that people don't spit at you as they spit on the sidewalk ( 3 today)
-Side stepping barf, dirty water, or some other things that I'm not sure about ( too many, i can do this while texting on my cell phone now)
-Seeing ridiculous things in Shanghai that you could never see in the states ( 5 today)
-Wondering why the Chinese don't sweat from wearing 3 layers of clothes in this heat ( all the time)
-Picking out attractive wonderbread from the mass of Chinese (1 today)
-use my chinese to get what I want (4 today)
-Silently in my head having a walk off with some chinese girl on the sidewalk walking toward me ( 4 today)
-Checking facebook to see if Theresa wrote to me and writing back to her because I have nothing else better to do (25 times today)

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