Currently listening to: Miyavi: -gagaku-

It's a lovely day. It's rather cold today, due to a fresh wind blowing.
Humidity ist barely existant today, so no major sweating to be done (^_^)
School war all right today. My pronounciation sucked though. Well maybe
tomorrow will be a better day, who knows. I will go to Nanjing Dong Lu
later, to check out some more stores and hang out at the bund, maybe I'll
dine at M on the Bund, but I don't know yet. Let's see and wait.

Okay, where did I stop yesterday? I honestly don't remember and cuz I can't
look it up either, there might be a little gap, never mind it. Well Saturday
was a rather good day I think. Nothing special happend, so I guess that's
good. Who knows. Well due to the incident on Friday night, I did not feel
like going out on Saturday. I stayed at the hotel and watched Cannel [V].

Slept nearly all Sunday and went out at 4 p.m. because I was in the need of
food. I hadn't eaten for about 24h at that time, so I was starting to
getting hungry as you can probably imagine. I decided to get dropped off at
Nanjing Dong Lu again and walk the way to Huai Hai Lu. In oder to understand
more people or to find out things, I baught an electronic Dictionary. Of
course it's on Chinese, but a little klicking here and there makes
everything work (^_^). After I've been looking for one of those things I
finally found it at the Foreign Book store. And since it is a law, once you
find the thing you want and you buy it, you see it 5 mins later for less
money all around (-_-#)
On my way to Huai Hai Zhong Lu, I was wandering if I'd find some real
designer Stores, and BAM I did. Great, nearly all the major designer lables
at one place right at the beginning of Huai Hai Xin Lu (^_^)/ YAY So of
course I went in and took a look around. Found THE STORE for handbags,
honestly they had the cooles handbags I've ever seen, except Moschino's of
course. But just like an other rule. Ther really cool things are really
expensive, so I did not buy one........yet (^_^), maybe I'll make up my
mind.
By then I was starving and decided to take another chance on Ashanti Dome,
since it was Sunday. And after a nice lady showed me direction (the right
one....not like that taxi driver) I actually found it. It is in a
neighbourhood, you'd never expect a decent french restaurant. At the
beginning of the road garbage bags were laying around and did not look to
welcomeing. But wenn I saw the yellow Umbrella's of the Dead Widow Champaign
I knew it was what I was looking for.
At the entrance the waiter asked me, if I wanted Frebcg Cuisine or Spanish
Tapas. WHO would EVER choose Tapas above French Cuisine, when really hungry?
So I went for the French Cuisine. I need to explain, that Ashanti Dome is in
an old Russion Orthodox Church. So if you want to see the colorful church
windows, you have to say you want to eat on the upper flor. The waiters were
fairly trained. At least good enough to satisfy me.
A little starter came and it tasted like crap. I'm not kidding it was
nasty.....mainly because of the lack of salt!
Then my actual starter came. Oisters coocked in their own water, topped by
Belugar Caviar. THAT was really yummy. Not kidding. My main dish was steak
Tatar. BIG mistake. The cook did not know how to do that thing the way it
was supposed to be done. Okay, beeing the fair person I am (actually I'm not
a fair person at all, I think) I have to say, that I'm used to probably the
best Steak Tatar in the hole world. Served at the Dicke Matilde in Oostende,
Belgium. Back to the one at Ashanti Dome (already the name sucks hell) the
French Fries were good, and salted. Since I love Creme Brulee, I had to go
for this one as desert. There were little pieces of something, that does not
belong in a Creme Brulee in it, so again a big DON'T.
So if you're used to real French Cuisine, don't go there. If you're in
Shanghai and sick of food you can't identify, go there and try it out. If
you've never eaten Frech Cuisine before and are used to dine at Mc Donald's,
you probably gonna love it.
So I wanted to take a little walk and ended up in UME Complex. Fucking cool
place to hang out in Shanghai. Lot's of little bars, restaurants, cafes and
so on. It was really crowded, too. Had a couple of drinks there. The crowd
hanging out there is really relly nice, too. So no drunk foreigners wanting
to beat you up!
So Sunday was really a nice day, but I couldn't fall asleep at all, so I had
a hard time getting up on Monday morning and not coming late for class. They
erally have a lot of extremely nice teachers there, and their English was
really great. And then I discovered, why that I was actually the only
foreigner from Europe. All the other students are from JAPAN.....can you
believe how lucky I am. Did not see a really hot one yet, but wish me luck.
Ahhhhhh and I only have female teachers (;_;)
Well, at least I'm not going to hang drooling wise above my teacher now.
I have to admit, that 3h of pronounciation training one in a row is really
tirering for my voice, but it's the best training at all. And god know's how
important it is to hit the right tone, otherwise you probably end up beeing
stared at even more.
After school I went to take a walk at the Bund's waterfront. Sat down
somewhere and went through my new textbook. Really good one that is. Sitting
there, about every ten minutes somebody was shyly sitting next to me,
getting a picture taken. Sometimes they asked if I was fine with it,
sometimes they just did it. I was kind of becomeing a tourist attracktion to
the Chinese people from the country. Felt really really strange. I actually
thought they got used to see tall European women allready. But maybe not too
many with blue hair are running around.
Nothing else exciting happend that day, so actually not much more to say.

Yesterday I was just tired and did not do anything else but going to class.
I did not even go out for food. Room Service had to do it that night.

And today, who knows, being finished with todays entry I guess I will take a
cab to Nanjing Dong Lu and walk to Huai Hai Lu. Try out some marked places
and a couple of drinks at UME Complex maybe. Not too many though, because I
have to review class tonight.


Okay guys....have a nice time (^_^) I certainly will