Thursday, August 9, 2007 -
Sickies in Shanghai
Well it was bound to happen... after 2 weeks of going from extreme heat (35 Celsius) to 23 degree air conditioning, I caught a cold. It came on this morning after I talked with the family (I miss you all so much, muchos besos!) and I went to the local pharmacy and got some Tylenol Cold and am just sitting in my room pouting while Luis, Jonas and Marina head out to Huaihai Lu to go look at all the pretty lights and stores!
The first week I was here, I was really worried that I'd let my shyness get in the way of the trip and I'd stay in my room and let the time whiz by. I'm glad that that's not the case! I've seen so many sights but now that I'm sick I for once am taking it easy and lounging in my room. Well, I guess I'll update you on how this second week went, because this weekend I'm going to Suzhou, which will deserve a post all it's own. :]
So on Monday it was ridiculously hot AGAIN so we (Cristina, Lucas, Luis, Jonas, Marina and I) decided to go ice skating after Lucas and I went to the afternoon activity of making a dragonfly out of knots.
I haven't been ice skating since freshman year of high school, but I figured it'd be like that whole riding a bike analogy. WELL. It would have been, had I remembered that you need to lace your skates up as tight as you can! So... I fell and got a sick bruise on my knee! Once Luis tightened my skates, it was so much easier! Luis was trying to take pictures and fell on his culo and a Chinese boy helped him up. When I went to get my water from my bag, the same kid tapped me on the shoulder to wave goodbye! It was kind of strange, but not so much since we're in China and being foreigners, kids love us :D. Well he, his little sister, and his brother all wanted pictures with me, so their mom took pictures of each of them with me and then all of us together. Maybe I should look into a career playing Jasmine at Disney World...!
haha.. silly kiddos!
We skated for almost 2 hours and then went to a hoighty toighty Japanese restaurant where we payed a whopping $8 each for a feast. Probably the most expensive meal I've eaten here, but hey, it was yummy! Then we went to an arcade where the giant zombie game scared me :[
I added some pics from there starting HERE.
Well Tuesday we had tai chi and then went down to the soccer field to play. A professional team came and I took pictures of the guys playing them... yeah, they were good lol. China won. Europe/Japan lost!
Wednesday we went to see Chinese acrobatics. I thought it might be kinda lame, but it was actually really cool! People were jumping everywhere and doing all sorts of flips and crazy things, like jump roping on top of a man powered ferris wheel thing. See this globe?
Like seven motorcycles were inside of it, going all over... even upside down! Craziest thing I've ever seen...
Yesterday we went to a tea lecture/presentation thing that was pretty interesting and Marina went on the stage and poured the tea all Chinese-style. My camera went dead though, so there are only like 2 pics from the tea-ness. Now I'm sick and just hanging around, hoping I get better asap! I threw some pictures into the shanghai daxue album, so checkit!
<3
Elisa
