Sunday, November 16, 2008

Shanghai:Day Two





















Today we walked all around Shanghai. There are so many people! The scariest thing is walking across the street. It doesn't matter if the light is green, red, yellow, or purple, everyone goes. People will walk into traffic, the cars honk and drive on. As everybody else goes across, they walk into the street with ease. As I go across, I usually scream that everyone will die. We also walked around by the Bund. The Bund is a walkway along the Huangpu River. There are a lot of historic buildings on the Bund. When we were on the Bund, we took a boat ride on the river. We saw many boats with different kinds of objects/materials people were transporting. We also saw a puppy on a boat! When we walked along in the city, there were the tall skyscrapers and the gardens. There is the People's Park, which is a park with gardens and little ponds. Many elderly people were grouped around other people who played games and were doing Tai Chi. Some of the old streets were just amazing and you could get a sense as to how people lived. There were clothes and laundry hanging out to dry, rusty bicycles, and people sitting in the door ways. Tomorrow we're going to go to the aquarium and going to see the French Concession. The tall building is our hotel.


Lianne

1 comment:

Sadie Witt said...

Hey lee lee!!!!! Looks like ur having fun there! How r u adjusting to the time change?
Sadie


P.S. I'm typing this from an iPhone!!!! It's fun. :-)