Well, well, well I know I haven't been posting for a couple of days, but
guys believe me, I've been very busy.
I ate at a really neat restaurant on Thursday called T8 at Xintiandi (UME
Coplex Tai Cai Lu) Since I was alone they placed me at the bar and people
believe me, it's the best place to be when you're alone, because you can
watch the cooks making the food, and boy that was delicous. Really, really,
really good. There is nothing to complain about. Afterwards I went to ARK
live house, which is a neat bar in which bands are playing. Really cool to
go to when you're alone, because the bands are interesting to watch.
Here in Shanghai everything in bars is about live music and that's actaully
a pretty cool thing. I love it.
On Friday I met to fellow stundents from Bonn. Linda and Manu which was
really really cool. Been wondering around Nanjing Lu and so on and got some
really cool things to eat. I will post the pictures of that stuff as soon as
I'm back in Germany.
On Saturday we decided to go to Suzhou, so we met at 9 o'clock in order to
get to the Shanghain Zhan (Shanghai Station) we got there around 10 and I
tell you it was packed. It was so crowded that we had a hard time getting to
the counter we needed. When it was finally our turn we learned that the next
train was only going at 13:15 so we had about three hours to hang out around
Shanghai Zhan. We visited the Shopping malls and went to a really cool Fast
Food Place called something with Sumo, really cool, since the food was not
only healthy but also really really tasty. Getting on our train we
recognized that we had bought tickets for the better kind of train. Reserved
seats really neat for 22 yuan, which is a bout 2 Euro....IMAGINE 22 yuan one
way and the train was way better than the DB trains (DB=Deutsche Bahn) It
was really cool. Girls running around selling warm food, fruits, toys for
the kids and drinks the whole ride....that's what I call service!
After an hour ride we reached Suzhou and rushed through two parks since they
all close around 5 p.m. Since we've been walking all the time we couldn't
bother to walk to the inner city in order to get something to eat. So we
hired a Riksha. That poor man had to transport all three of us, but that
actually had the effect that he was getting admired a lot, since he could
handle it really well. Had really good food again and wanted to go home, so
we walked back to the Station just to learn, that the next train would leave
only in 2 and a half hours, so we decided to sit in front of the staion on
the ground, just as many others did, but boy we were cinema to all the
Chinese people.
When one guy came up to us with his children and asked for money in order to
buy them food we made the mistake and answered him in Chinese. Now
everything started to run wild. First only a couple of guys gathered around
us and looked at us as if we were some rare mokeys. After a short while more
and more people gathered around us in order to watch uns and listen what we
were saying. One guy started asking us questions in Chinese. Eager as we are
we tried to understand what he was asking us and tried to give our best
answering. BIG mistake, within second about thirty people stood around us.
Many just watching and listening to what we've been talking about, but some
tried to talk to us. In the beginning it was quite pleasant, but when more
and more people gathered around us it became kind of strange. When a beggar
came up to us the police showed up and sacared some of the people away. But
since one of the guys, who was actually pretty polite and was trying to
speak as clearly as he could, kept on talking to us more and more people
gathered around us, drawing nearer and nearer and after two hours sitting
there, about a hundred people had gathered around us, asking us questions
and nearly sitting on our laps.
One of them tried to speak English with us, which was rather funny since he
started off with those typical text book sentences: Hi I'm such and shuch,
what is your name, where are you from. But when he was finished with this
typical introduction, he gave me his ID and told me that he was a single.
Just like, hey I'm SINGLE look at me. It was the funniest thing ever.
The police came once more to scare people away, but hopelessly they tried
and nothing worked. After two hours we got kind of tired talking to those
poeple them getting closer and closer so we decided to stand up. When we
were walking up to the station one of the police officers kind of dragged us
into the station in order to get rid of the duty to protect us from the
masses. It was quite funny, since we now can imagine how it must be like
when you're a star. People desperately wanting to talk to you, wanting to
touch you and stuff like that. We were pretty happy that none of our "fans"
wanted to got to Shanghai, too.
That was my wierdest experience ever in my life.
On our way back we had a less comfi train, but it only cost 7 yuan, so no
complains about that.
it was about midnight, when we reached Shanghai and since Metro was closed
already we took taxis back home, got ourselves dressed up to party and went
out.....kind of. First I again had cab driver who kicked me out some place
pointed into a direction and again it was the wrong one, so I came 20
minutes late to our checkpoint. ten to two I met Lina and Manu outside Ying
Yang some bar and disco, but it was quite empty. Drank a beer and decided to
take a cab to another disco, which is supposed to be the biggest one in
China. When we reached the venue it was about 2:45 a.m. NOONE there. So we
asked a cab driver where to go and he told us that everything closes at 2 in
the morning. That sucked so much, but we had nothing else to do than got
back to our hotels and get so sleep.
Sunday was the first rainy day in Shanghai.....and when I say rainy I mean
it was raining cats and dogs. We still decided to go to Yu Yuan, which is a
the old town in Shanghai. Really cool place to hang out, if it is not
raining! Even though we had bought some umbrellas as you can imagine they
weren't the best ones in there world so after a while the rain was dripping
through them. Fortunately after we decided to have an early dinner at 5 p.m.
and got out of the restaurant around 7 p.m. it was barely raining anymore
and we didn't need our umbrellas. So we all went a little shopping which was
quite fun. Afterwards we walked back to Fu Zhou Lu in which Manu's and
Linda's Hostel was. A really neat hostel. We restet shortly and diceded to
go to Xintaindi (UME Complex) to party that night. So we found ourselves a
neat bar with really cool live music performance, had 2 pitchers and got to
know each other quite well.
When we left Luna (the pub we went to) it was pouring outside again. Said
good bye quickly, since they left this morning to Beijing. I hope they have
great time there.
Funny thing, that I didn't know Manu well and Linda not at all before coming
to Shanghai. Linda and I in fact never have talked to each other before!
Cool thing that I got to know them both. Now partying in Bonn we be even
cooler than it already is (^_^)
Oh I want to mention something. Chinese men are looking at your face
first.....and that at your boobs! Great isn't it! Not like European guys who
sometimes seem to forget that a woman has a face, too!
Today I had a shitty start. Two taxi drivers didn't want to drive me to
school. So I was kind of demotivated when I reachen TLI finally. But my
teachers are all so kind and nice that your spirit gets lifted the instant
you get into the school rooms. Afterwards I decided to walk around Pu Dong a
little. Good choice. Pu Dong is quite a cool place to hang out. It's the
future part of Shanghai. Saw two Malls with Gucci and stuff, walked to pearl
tower and decided to visit is some other day in the evening, since you have
really cool frew from one of the upper pearls. You can look all over
Shanghai and it's beautiful way to be lit at night. I saw it in some of
Lind's pics. I took tourist walking tunnel to the bund, which everyone
should at least try once. A cool way to get from Pu Dong to the Bund.
Well that's it for today......See ya guys
guys believe me, I've been very busy.
I ate at a really neat restaurant on Thursday called T8 at Xintiandi (UME
Coplex Tai Cai Lu) Since I was alone they placed me at the bar and people
believe me, it's the best place to be when you're alone, because you can
watch the cooks making the food, and boy that was delicous. Really, really,
really good. There is nothing to complain about. Afterwards I went to ARK
live house, which is a neat bar in which bands are playing. Really cool to
go to when you're alone, because the bands are interesting to watch.
Here in Shanghai everything in bars is about live music and that's actaully
a pretty cool thing. I love it.
On Friday I met to fellow stundents from Bonn. Linda and Manu which was
really really cool. Been wondering around Nanjing Lu and so on and got some
really cool things to eat. I will post the pictures of that stuff as soon as
I'm back in Germany.
On Saturday we decided to go to Suzhou, so we met at 9 o'clock in order to
get to the Shanghain Zhan (Shanghai Station) we got there around 10 and I
tell you it was packed. It was so crowded that we had a hard time getting to
the counter we needed. When it was finally our turn we learned that the next
train was only going at 13:15 so we had about three hours to hang out around
Shanghai Zhan. We visited the Shopping malls and went to a really cool Fast
Food Place called something with Sumo, really cool, since the food was not
only healthy but also really really tasty. Getting on our train we
recognized that we had bought tickets for the better kind of train. Reserved
seats really neat for 22 yuan, which is a bout 2 Euro....IMAGINE 22 yuan one
way and the train was way better than the DB trains (DB=Deutsche Bahn) It
was really cool. Girls running around selling warm food, fruits, toys for
the kids and drinks the whole ride....that's what I call service!
After an hour ride we reached Suzhou and rushed through two parks since they
all close around 5 p.m. Since we've been walking all the time we couldn't
bother to walk to the inner city in order to get something to eat. So we
hired a Riksha. That poor man had to transport all three of us, but that
actually had the effect that he was getting admired a lot, since he could
handle it really well. Had really good food again and wanted to go home, so
we walked back to the Station just to learn, that the next train would leave
only in 2 and a half hours, so we decided to sit in front of the staion on
the ground, just as many others did, but boy we were cinema to all the
Chinese people.
When one guy came up to us with his children and asked for money in order to
buy them food we made the mistake and answered him in Chinese. Now
everything started to run wild. First only a couple of guys gathered around
us and looked at us as if we were some rare mokeys. After a short while more
and more people gathered around us in order to watch uns and listen what we
were saying. One guy started asking us questions in Chinese. Eager as we are
we tried to understand what he was asking us and tried to give our best
answering. BIG mistake, within second about thirty people stood around us.
Many just watching and listening to what we've been talking about, but some
tried to talk to us. In the beginning it was quite pleasant, but when more
and more people gathered around us it became kind of strange. When a beggar
came up to us the police showed up and sacared some of the people away. But
since one of the guys, who was actually pretty polite and was trying to
speak as clearly as he could, kept on talking to us more and more people
gathered around us, drawing nearer and nearer and after two hours sitting
there, about a hundred people had gathered around us, asking us questions
and nearly sitting on our laps.
One of them tried to speak English with us, which was rather funny since he
started off with those typical text book sentences: Hi I'm such and shuch,
what is your name, where are you from. But when he was finished with this
typical introduction, he gave me his ID and told me that he was a single.
Just like, hey I'm SINGLE look at me. It was the funniest thing ever.
The police came once more to scare people away, but hopelessly they tried
and nothing worked. After two hours we got kind of tired talking to those
poeple them getting closer and closer so we decided to stand up. When we
were walking up to the station one of the police officers kind of dragged us
into the station in order to get rid of the duty to protect us from the
masses. It was quite funny, since we now can imagine how it must be like
when you're a star. People desperately wanting to talk to you, wanting to
touch you and stuff like that. We were pretty happy that none of our "fans"
wanted to got to Shanghai, too.
That was my wierdest experience ever in my life.
On our way back we had a less comfi train, but it only cost 7 yuan, so no
complains about that.
it was about midnight, when we reached Shanghai and since Metro was closed
already we took taxis back home, got ourselves dressed up to party and went
out.....kind of. First I again had cab driver who kicked me out some place
pointed into a direction and again it was the wrong one, so I came 20
minutes late to our checkpoint. ten to two I met Lina and Manu outside Ying
Yang some bar and disco, but it was quite empty. Drank a beer and decided to
take a cab to another disco, which is supposed to be the biggest one in
China. When we reached the venue it was about 2:45 a.m. NOONE there. So we
asked a cab driver where to go and he told us that everything closes at 2 in
the morning. That sucked so much, but we had nothing else to do than got
back to our hotels and get so sleep.
Sunday was the first rainy day in Shanghai.....and when I say rainy I mean
it was raining cats and dogs. We still decided to go to Yu Yuan, which is a
the old town in Shanghai. Really cool place to hang out, if it is not
raining! Even though we had bought some umbrellas as you can imagine they
weren't the best ones in there world so after a while the rain was dripping
through them. Fortunately after we decided to have an early dinner at 5 p.m.
and got out of the restaurant around 7 p.m. it was barely raining anymore
and we didn't need our umbrellas. So we all went a little shopping which was
quite fun. Afterwards we walked back to Fu Zhou Lu in which Manu's and
Linda's Hostel was. A really neat hostel. We restet shortly and diceded to
go to Xintaindi (UME Complex) to party that night. So we found ourselves a
neat bar with really cool live music performance, had 2 pitchers and got to
know each other quite well.
When we left Luna (the pub we went to) it was pouring outside again. Said
good bye quickly, since they left this morning to Beijing. I hope they have
great time there.
Funny thing, that I didn't know Manu well and Linda not at all before coming
to Shanghai. Linda and I in fact never have talked to each other before!
Cool thing that I got to know them both. Now partying in Bonn we be even
cooler than it already is (^_^)
Oh I want to mention something. Chinese men are looking at your face
first.....and that at your boobs! Great isn't it! Not like European guys who
sometimes seem to forget that a woman has a face, too!
Today I had a shitty start. Two taxi drivers didn't want to drive me to
school. So I was kind of demotivated when I reachen TLI finally. But my
teachers are all so kind and nice that your spirit gets lifted the instant
you get into the school rooms. Afterwards I decided to walk around Pu Dong a
little. Good choice. Pu Dong is quite a cool place to hang out. It's the
future part of Shanghai. Saw two Malls with Gucci and stuff, walked to pearl
tower and decided to visit is some other day in the evening, since you have
really cool frew from one of the upper pearls. You can look all over
Shanghai and it's beautiful way to be lit at night. I saw it in some of
Lind's pics. I took tourist walking tunnel to the bund, which everyone
should at least try once. A cool way to get from Pu Dong to the Bund.
Well that's it for today......See ya guys
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