 | Shanghai
2008-08-19, Shanghai, China. By: juchem | | The busiest city ever, great Olympic experience. Its 4:30 in the morning, now bye bye China and welcome Indonesia! All the best! |
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 | My Last Week :(
2008-08-11, Shanghai, China. By: cconner | | Monday 8/11
I got home from work that day and realized it was my last week. So I went to stock up on groceries for William, because he was supposed to get back by Wednesday and then I just took my... |
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| The 2nd to last week in China :(
2008-08-04, Shanghai, China. By: cconner | | Wow...I have a lot to update you guys on.
Monday 8/4 and Tuesday 8/5
These days were extremely boring days to talk about. I just went to work, came home, ate dinner, played on my computer and... |
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 | Lindi's Visit!!!!!
2008-08-02, Shanghai, China. By: cconner | | Saturday 8/2
Lindi and I decided to get up kind of early. There was a lot of stuff we wanted to do. We first went to the fabric market. I think Lindi liked it, but she wasn't going to get anythi... |
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| Getting Ready for Beijing!
2008-07-28, Shanghai, China. By: cconner | | Monday 7/28
It was a pretty ordinary day. Went to work and when I got home I started packing for my trip to Beijing. I had to have my things packed because I was going to leave work a little earl... |
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| The 3rd Weekend in Shanghai
2008-07-28, Shanghai, China. By: cconner | | Friday 25th
It was a rather boring day at work. After work all I did was go out with a couple friends for a drink at Zapata's (a Mexican restaurant not far from where I live). I made it an early ... |
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| Quick Week
2008-07-23, Shanghai, China. By: cconner | | The days go by faster and faster and I feel like I am starting to run out of time. If I didn't have a year left of school I would honestly stay here. That's how much I love it!
Wednesday 7/23
Wo... |
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| A New Week
2008-07-21, Shanghai, China. By: CConner | | Monday 7/21
Well...to be honest nothing very special happened on Monday or Tuesday. I went to work came home and William and I had dinner (Tom left to go back to England on this day). After a lit... |
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 | The Weekend
2008-07-18, Shanghai, China. By: cconner | | Friday 7/18
Friday was like any day at work. Although, after work was a little different. One of the Employees, Michael, is graduating so Adam, our boss from Kansas, said he would take him and a ... |
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 | First Week Comes to an End
2008-07-16, Shanghai, China. By: CConner | | Wednesday:
Got to work and and Katie had me work on some more price list things. I actually don't mind the work she gives me at all, I just wish she would give me more so it would take up more of ... |
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| A Working Girl
2008-07-14, Shanghai, China. By: CConner | | Monday the 14th
I was excited to go to work that day because Katie Tang the Marketing Manager was going to be back in town and she was going to give me more work to do. When I got there she didn't... |
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 | The Weekend
2008-07-12, Shanghai, China. By: cconner | | Since I stayed out the whole night I was pretty tired so I slept a lot of the day. But I needed it. I did go swimming in the pool at the apartment and then kind of just hung out. Tom and his friend... |
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 | Friday and Work
2008-07-11, Shanghai, China. By: CConner | | Today was an extremely boring day at work. I pretty much did nothing but got on the Evapco website and read the entire thing. Yeah...it was not very much fun, but Andrew told me that there would be ... |
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| Going to Work
2008-07-10, Shanghai, China. By: CConner | | I decided that I would go to work the next day because if I hadn't I would have slept the entire day. (I was still so tired from the time change and jet lag) A driver came to pick me up at 8:00am an... |
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| China is Amazing!
2008-07-10, Shanghai, China. By: CConner | | Well...I am a lucky girl. Being in China is one of the most amazing experiences of my life and I owe a huge thank you to my Uncles! Thank you Uncle Kip and Uncle Bren!
The Flight:
I was to fl... |
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 | Arrival
2008-05-13, Shanghai, China. By: laowai | | I have arrived in Shanghai. The start of my second China adventure. After one semester back at USC, I have returned for the summer to teach English in Yangshuo. Having only lived in urban China, I ... |
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 | Chinese Hospitality
2008-03-12, Shanghai, China. By: mala | | In the transportation hub of Guangzhou our trip took an unexpected turn. Here we parted way with the girls who were homesick and Chinasick, which I understand is a common malady of travelers to the Mi... |
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 | Shanghai Washout
2007-11-23, Shanghai, China. By: smithy2006 | | The last couple of days were a bit of a washout all together, mainly due to the stinging hangover from Ed's birthday... Thursday, woke up late, watched two bad films in the Pathfinder and then Scary M... |
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 | Sex Museum and Ed's Birthday Bash
2007-11-21, Shanghai, China. By: smithy2006 | | Found out today the reason why everyone keeps on asking to have a photo taken with me... a chinese student gladly informed me it's because...
1. Your tall
2. You have long curly hair
3. and a big... |
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 | TV Tower and Hooters
2007-11-20, Shanghai, China. By: smithy2006 | | Big site seeing day today... started off at the TV Tower, 3rd biggest building in the world (biggest in Asia), Tom, Ed and I missioned to the top... well got the lift, quickest lift i've been in in my... |
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 | Shanghai the Transformed Western-Like City
2007-11-06, Shanghai, China. By: AEnglish84 | | Last week, I was able to go to Shanghai. I had time off from work (Tuesday-Sunday) I disappeared and flew to Shanghai. This was my 1st domestic flight in another country. I was excited to see how flyi... |
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 | Shanghai
2007-10-18, Shanghai, China. By: lou | | Well i arrived in Shanghai on 18 Oct by train. The weather was beautiful and no smog to be seen hangin over the city. Once we got checked into the Hotel we took a walk around the city. The skyline ... |
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 | Last Day at Work
2007-09-14, Shanghai, China. By: katalin | | Today is the last day of my job with CMS, which means that also my time in China comes to an end. And while there has been a lot of crap going on (e.g. today the ATM decided that it doesn’t want to gi... |
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 | Proof!
2007-08-07, Shanghai, China. By: katalin | | I just wanted to prove that Shanghai isn't ALWAYS smoggy in summer - check out this incredibly blue sky. Oh yes, and this is the view from my office. I know I already posted some pictures, but these a... |
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| Same old, same old
2007-09-06, Shanghai, China. By: katalin | | Hi guys,
there's nothing really new to tell, I just have some free time at work and wanted to share with you that summer in Shanghai is over. Bugger. I'm actually cold, especially at night, but th... |
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| Blub, blub
2007-09-01, Shanghai, China. By: katalin | | I had a rather unexpected encounter with communist China today – I went swimming with Esthee. The pool is just a ten minute walk from my house and now that I’ve been there I’m surprised that I didn’t ... |
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 | Happy Birthday to - ME!
2007-08-30, Shanghai, China. By: katalin | | At first I had thought about going on an excursion to Sheshan, the only place remotely resembling a hill around Shanghai in order to meditate about my life and what I want to do with it, but then I de... |
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 | Bye bye Jonathan!
2007-08-21, Shanghai, China. By: katalin | | The French team’s boss, Jonathan, was leaving this week. He says that he will be back in a year, but people around here don’t really believe it. May have to do with the fact that when he first arrived... |
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 | Qibao and more
2007-08-18, Shanghai, China. By: katalin | | For today, the plan had been to go to a water viallage named Xitang with Nathalie and Louis, a French intern. But as we were late (or at least some of us were), the bus tickets were sold out and we ch... |
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 | FISHES!
2007-08-19, Shanghai, China. By: katalin | | Woke up early today and went to my Yoga class. I love Yoga. Even though sometimes I hate it while doing the positions (the "dog" is my worst enemy), I just feel phantastic afterwards. My plan had been... |
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 | Night out
2007-08-17, Shanghai, China. By: katalin | | Just quickly wanted to let you know that on Friday I went out with a couple friends - we had dinner at the Crystal Jade in Xintiandi. Kinda hard to find, but it's a great restaurant. They allegedly se... |
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| Easter???
2007-08-17, Shanghai, China. By: katalin | | Just a quick note to let you know a bit of local custom I learnt today. When I came back to my office after Chinese class, I had two red egg-shaped sweets on my desk. A chicken was on the wrapper and ... |
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| Advo-Kat
2007-08-15, Shanghai, China. By: katalin | | Today was my first time as official legal representative – I had to accompany some clients to the German Consulate in Shanghai, as we needed to notarize their signature on a power of attorney. It was ... |
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| I'm an alien...
2007-08-14, Shanghai, China. By: katalin | | ..or at least that's what I get treated like most of the time. I still haven't gotten used to the fact that even in Shanghai, where there are quite a few foreigners, people still stare at me. However,... |
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| New Style
2007-08-12, Shanghai, China. By: katalin | | Today I decided to do something incredibly brave – I went to the hairdresser here. My roots have started to become very obvious, so I did some research and then chose Toni & Guy. They are in the build... |
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