Shanghai

I have been in Shanghai for 3 days and have had a lot of fun.  We went to four companies and toured their China facilities.  The companies that we went to were Ford, Dow, Huntsman, and Air Products in the past two days.  I learned a lot about their products, but was not really interested in working for those particular companies because the jobs sounded quite boring.  I was not able to take pictures at these companies because we were not allowed to have cameras on the premises.

The food in Shanghai has been really good.  They have these things called Bowsa or "Juicy Dumplings" which are nothing short of amazing and you can get one for only 1 yuan (about $0.15) on the street.  We also had a crazy experience in a restaurant the other day.  The class was eating when some commotion broke out behind us.  A guy was really drunk (at lunchtime on a Sunday), and he was yelling at another customer.  He then proceeded to throw a bottle at a waitress and then was swarmed by like 6 huge guys and put into a headlock.  Then to top things off, one of the chefs came out with a meat cleaver in his hand ready to hit the guy.  It was crazy!  I got to have a true China experience.

Aside from the food, Shanghai is definitely my favorite city in China.  It is much cleaner and has less poor people than all of the other cities.  It is also very pretty and has many tall buildings.  It is a lot like New York except far less dirty.  This is the Bund (or downtown scene) at night.  I forgot to take my camera when we went, but this will have to do.

The Bund in downtown Shanghai