My short trip to Shanghai is coming to an end! Right now, I’m just chilling at Ed’s apartment, watching him play video games. This time was the first time I’ve ever travelled around a Chinese city on my own, since Ed has had to work these past two days. 

The first night, we walked around the city, exploring the shopping areas. I was disoriented because there were a lot of people around - I thought it was very late at night, but it was actually only about 8 or 9pm (possibly due to Ithaca…). To my surprise, we saw pretty amazing Christmas displays, including this random one sponsored by Twinings of the Westminster Bridge and the Big Ben.

Day two involved about 12 km of walking, partially due to purposeful wandering, partially because I got lost and missed the metro stop. I walked through the most popular shopping areas in Shanghai, and spent time wandering up and down the Bund. I won’t be able to charge my camera until I get to Beijing, so I’ve been using the front facing camera on my iPhone a lot these past few days-plenty of awkward self-taken photos for Facebook, haha…

Beautiful day after the polluted fog from the day before! 

Today I went to an “old” part of town-an entire area where they rebuilt old-style buildings into a shopping area with little shops and name brands like Espirit. They also had a temple, and a huge food court with regional snacks (nom nom nom). I then ventured to the former World Expo park after some nudging from my dad, and saw a few of the pavilions, which was cool. 

In front of the China Pavilion.

Then I ventured to the river bank on the Pudong side to watch the sunset! 

It’s been a pretty tiring couple of days + I’m still getting over jet lag and the horrible sleep cycles of finals, so I’m glad to be watching Ed work on his Wii fitness. :) I really like Shanghai! It’s very foreign-friendly … I even saw a store that sells Chateau Mouton-Rothschild wine, creme de la creme for sure.