After Guilin, I didn’t think I would miss Shanghai so much. Chengdu wasn’t a good experience, partly because of luck, partly because of our poor planning. We should have never went on a tour, since we knew it had a pretty good chance of being terrible. But alas, we did and at the very least, we have a great story to tell.
Anyways, we got to sleep in a little before we headed out to the airport. Luckily for us, we were able to hire a van for the same price that two cabs would have cost, which was nice. The whole group stayed together and it was convenient for all our luggage. We gave ourselves plenty of time to get to the airport because we knew how bad traffic could get in Chengdu. To our surprise, traffic didn’t slow us down one bit and we got there early. Actually, we got there so early, the guy at the check-in counter wouldn’t let us check-in!
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I had to wake up early to take a Chinese placement test, but after speaking with the teacher and telling her that I don’t know a lick of Mandarin, I got out of it. Since I was already awake, I decided to take a walk around the neighborhood to take some pictures.
He charged at me after I took this photo
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First full day here in Shanghai and it was quite eventful. Started out with a breakfast buffet at East China Normal University (ECNU) where NYU holds its classes. After breakfast, we sat through some presentations and did some icebreakers. We also took a group photo in front of the giant Mao statue. ECNU, by the way, has a very pretty campus. Trees, grass, and plants everywhere and small rivers run through. I’ll get around to taking photos of the campus one of these days.
Mao
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In an ideal world, this post would be about Day 6, but NYU has sure kept us busy. Since orientation week is nearing it’s end, I finally have some time to sit down and write about what’s happened the past week. I didn’t get to it last time, so I’ll talk about the long plane ride as well as the arrival.
HK Airport Gate 8
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