<!-- @page { size: 8.5in 11in; margin: 0.79in } P { margin-bottom: 0.08in } --> The subway doors open and Siobhan is just a flash of violet turning around the pillar and up the subway steps at a sprint. It is 7 am at the Nanpu Bridge subway stop andour esteemed Hamilton psysiotherapast,Enoch Ho, warned us that the bus would wait for no one. Wearing my smll backpack and carrying the fod bag, I ran to follow her tqking the steps two at a time for three ...

Last full day in shanghai (Monday) This was an overcast day, so dad and I were thankful that we had spent the day before outside and this day would be mostly spent indoors. For days we had wanted to see the chinese propaganda museum and decided it was to be first on the list this day. The lovely ladies in purple, the workers at ying ying, fed us dumplings, noodles and what dad thinks is a veal cutlet for breakfast. This may sound heavy and odd for breakfast fo...

Touring shanghai (Sunday, working holiday) At this time dad and I were still wary of much of the culture, where to go, what to eat and such. Fortunately, we met what's probably the only English speaking Jew in all shanghai, in Ying Ying restaurant, the locally popular morning eatery closest to our hostel. Chase, a Jew from florida, has been working as an English teacher in china since the beginning of the year and helped us order our food and gave us some tips a...

May Day in Shanghai Here's an old joke, favourable to Mao: It's October 1 and Chairman Mao, leader of the Chinese Communist Party, is making a speech in the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on the occasion of the anniversary of the Revolution. Mao talks for one hour, two hours, two and half hours. Suddenly, the lights in Great Hall go off. Mao exhorts the crowd, "Everyone in Great Hall raise left hands!" Everybody obediently raises thei...

Shanghai day one (Saturday) -By the by, I'm posting blog entries from my IPhone, so please excuse the grammar and possible autocorrect errors that will inevitably be littered throughout them- Found our hostel, le tour, that provides free Internet and a host of other services and even has and exchange or borrow (impromptu) library for travelers. It has both pool and ping pong tables to satisfy both east and western tastes and a bar on the roof that seems to plea...