After a couple weeks in Shanghai, living at the Resort owned by the school, we (Brent, me, and all the foreign staff) went on a day tour of Shanghai. We took a bus to the pearl market, the French Concession (where the former communist party was founded), and Pudong--home of the Jin Mao tower--4th tallest building in the world. Now when I say we went on a day tour, that means we spent about 4 hours in traffic and then 2 - 3 hours checking out Shanghai. We also went to the famous Yu gardens (tourist mecca for bargaining and buying everything you could ever imagine you don't need).
As you can see from the pictures, I was the happy, unwitting foreigner, 1 week from the start of International school (more to come on this subject ahaha). My favorite is the picture of me and Brent sitting at the traditional tea drinking table chatty it up with the tour guide. He was hilarious! He told us that the average Chinese person with a college degree made aroun 1000 rmb a month. That's like $150 dollars. Whew!
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