People's Square

Here are some pictures of the area around People's Square, Shanghai:

This is a local commercial area near my hotel (on the way to the subway)


This is the view after coming out of the subway in People's Square


Some of the buildings around People's Square. I walked to the one on the right, the Hong Kong Building, because I heard that there was a electronics store next to it... There was, and it was huge! Three stories of electronics, where I was able to get my camera memory card reader for 8 dollars or something. It's interesting because when you start heckling over the price, it's already at a price you'd be willing to pay, so the exercise seems kinda silly!


Inside People Square on the way to the store.


So this is a raised highway that goes all over Shanghai. It's huge and it goes all over. There's one right next to my hotel, it might even be the same road for all I know.



Anyway, there are roads under them too, and I'm standing on a walking overpass that goes under the raised road, and over the ground level road.

Real Pictures

Ok, so here are some of the pictures that I've taken. I finally got to some sort of electronics store and haggled for a USB camera card reader. I'll talk a little about each picture:

This is Jack, he's one of the Westinghouse drivers and was awesome enough to wait around the Pudong Airport for about a hour waiting for me.


This is the view out of my hotel room window:



And this is the view from the TOP of the hotel:



So the first night I had free I went to Nanjing Lu just to check it out. It seems to be incredible, lots of people, lots of lights, and I'm sure lots of shopping and other stuff I don't really care too much about. But it still is interesting, and I actually got to see a shoplifting gone wrong. Apparently this is VERY uncommon so I consider myself lucky. Uncommon because people don't steal, not because they're always successful!

Anyway, I was SO tired that I had to leave after walking from the subway station to the Bund and back. I actually fell asleep on the subway going home, which is never good.

Test ,Test, 1, 2, 1, 2

O.k. so this is my first week in Shanghai and I'm starting to get over jet lag! It's been tough for the past two days; I almost feel asleep on the subway last night! So lets see what is of interest. I'm staying in this hotel and this room:

I got in Tuesday May 14, 2008 at ~9:00 PM. When I went to pick up my luggage someone took my backpack and put it back on the conveyor belt. I literally took one step forward to get my bag, and one step back, looked around at where my bag had been and realized it was gone. I started asking people if they'd seen it only to realize that nobody knew any English in my immediate area. After a minute or so of severe panic, an American women came over to me and told me that the guy next to me put it back on the luggage belt! I looked at him and started to say things like "what the heck's wrong with you" and "why would you put it BACK on the belt?" but it was useless since he spoke less English than I spoke Mandarin... Luckily my backpack came rolling around on the next revolution and I was able to pick it up without him putting my checked luggage back on again.