I just got back from Beijing a few days ago — very cool trip. It all started when we met up with our tour guide Ricky on Saturday morning:
Ricky was a cool guy, and answered most of our questions. He definitely learned as much about the U.S. as we did about Beijing though. [...]
We’re about to hop on a plane tonight and head to Beijing for the weekend. Hopefully I’ll get some awesome pics of The Great Wall, etc.
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Last week we decided to hop in a van and take a trip over to some Chinese markets. Within 2 minutes of hopping out of the van we had 3 or 4 new “best friends” that wanted to show us the best shops. Some of them even had catalogs for us to flip [...]
The playgrounds here have some interesting equipment. This lady for example uses something that resembles the Gazelle in America.
I walked down to “The Bund” tonight and snapped this photo of Pudong from across the Huangpu river
As you may know, the real reason I’m here in Shanghai is for work. I’m here for three weeks of training actually. Our first week of class is over and it went pretty well. Here’s a photo of my awesome team burning the midnight oil before our final project presentation on Friday:
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Coolio resurfaced last night in Shanghai at a club called BonBon. The Grammy award winning rapper that brought us such favorites as “Fantastic Voyage” and “Gangster’s Paradise” captivated a crowd of Shanghainese and expats with such phrases as:
“I’m 44, but this ain’t your daddy’s stomach” (while lifting shirt to show abs)
“If I was your [...]
A couple nights ago a bunch of us went to the Shanghai Ice Bar. This place was a complete novelty (we were the only people there, and I’m sure the locals laugh at it). Basically you get a huge parka, with gloves attached, when you walk in, and everything in the bar is [...]
The weather in Shanghai has been pretty bad for the most part so far. Everyday but one has been overcast and extremely humid. It looks like Saturday should be pretty nice, though, which is good because we’ll be touring the city all day.
You would think that the Circuits classes I took in college would have resulted in a little real world electrical knowledge - but you would be wrong.
The first night here I asked the front desk for a power transformer (to account for the difference between American AC and Chinese AC), and they gave me [...]
I’m in Shanghai, China now, and I will be for the next 3 weeks. Already, the experience has been unbelievable. I’ve done more traveling than most, including a couple trips to Europe — but I’ve never felt so completely foreign (or tall).
(flying over Alaska)
The flight over from Chicago (direct to Shanghai) took about [...]
