Friday 10th jUly - sunday 12th July
Stayed up till 5 sketching, messaged my sister in Dubai as she
flew from Dublin earlier, went to sleep for a few hours before getting up to
sketch some more, skipped graduation, got next semesters comprehensive books
from rebeka and picked up my finished label samples. Going to choose a finished
design of white and pink with a slightly bigger font. Happy happy! And not too
expensive :) got chatting to rebeka, Eric's and Johnny outside the dorm, they
all wanted a label and we had a random shot of a guys South American alcohol to
celebrate, life is crazy!
Went to pick up Rebecca at the airport, exciting! Took the
maglev (50RMB and discount if you have a plane ticket from that day) and then the metro, rosie met us near Zhongshan park and we packed up my
stuff and checked out of my dorm room and checked luggage into storage for the summer(5 bags managing to break a suitcase too ha!) checked in
to rock and wood hostel, went to Zhongshan and failed to download ppt. Had a
roomate from hell, chinese lady who came in after 1am in heels, who switched
the light on, I told her to turn it off people were sleeping, she woke me
around 7 with her alarm going off non stop even though she was awake, so I told
her off in chinese ha! Organised my info for a ppt and failed to find computers
in the library, wtf! Thankfully the one in the hostel has ppt and I did that
later on. Left rosie off at the metro and Rebecca and I headed to yu yuan
gardens 豫园
the forecasted typhoon had begun last night (the chinese were scared, lots of messages from my chinese friends, i thought it wasnt too bad but people had to be evacuated in Fuzhou and a few died, eek! apparently it turned just before Shanghai so wasnt that bad) Rain was still on pretty heavy but the wind had died right down, when
the typhoon started last night the rain was really heavy and the wind was
howling, lots of bunches were down and lots of shops just didn't open, the
chinese were all super worried, got message from Linda saying stay indoors and
jeccy, plus the mobile sim companies all sent out warning messages to stay
inside, lol. 
Reb liked yu yuan gardens and the rain made it all cooler with a slight
breeze. Was a nicer version of home. Going round some shops, eating Baozi 包子 and
delicious Chou doufu 臭豆腐with soy bean sauce.We went back and later went to the
pudong 浦东 area to look. At the skyscrapers. Some we were unable to see but we did
go to the amazing new Disney store . Interactive moving images, SHANGHAI based
some of them, however very very expensive! We went round one of the shopping malls
before heading back. Thankfully no rude annoying chinese lady staying in our
room this time - Needless to say, exhausted was no word to describe how I
felt, thankfully we did not have this tonight.
got an extension till tomorrow for the deadline. another wet
and rainy day due to the typhoon, its worse at night with howling winds and
heavy rain, the chinese are all really panicking however its not so bad, ive
had worse at home in Belfast. however it didnt apparently divert from shanghai
last moment and go elsewhere
. i took rebecca around the bund 外滩, the rain had
ceased and we could see all the buildings, we went round the back streets
behind the bund, seeing some buildings I hadnt seen before, we then walked
through Nanjing Road 南京东路 down to peoples square 人民广场seeing the marriage market, I was
going around reading some of the details out to rebecca. the parents of the
individual sit with an open umbrella with a piece of paper with their childs
details, so odd! from here we walked around the park, the small lake had huge
lillies and lily pads open in it, along with an odd man painting with no shirt
on, weird shorts and a paper bag on his head - the local crazy i presume.
we
then went to xujiahui cathedral 徐家汇 大教堂 before going back to relax and heard for the
train. a disastrous wait, we weren‘t sure if it would be cancelled or not, they
changed the queue then changed it back again. after waiting we discovered this,
got a text to say it was delayed but it wasnt on the board. we rushed to the
gate with 10 minutes before it closed having had the bag checked as a battery
power pack was left in it - only then for it to be confirmed it was delayed
another 2 hours till 11. we finally arrived in Guilin 桂林around 2 - getting the
bus into town and then a taxi to Scoozi bar hostel. into a 4 bed female dorm
with memory foam mattress. heaven!
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