Shanghai rocked. We went to the top of that weird looking tower with lots of big pink balls on it, roamed around a bunch of different areas of the city and visited a small town outside the city. Shanghai's only 200 years old so it was really interesting to compare to Beijing. Things were definitely more modern, you could tell that Europeans had been there. About every few buildings there'd be one that was noticeably colonial. There were also waaayyy more foreigners, almost all people working in Shanghai for one reason or another.
It looked straight out of a futuristic movie or something. There are tons of tall buildings, but they're all sort of scattered and don't look good next to one another. Everything is about building a tall building or a building in a weird shape, not necessarily building the more aesthetic skyline. There's also construction EVERYWHERE. Like more construction than the Big Dig. The world expo is coming to Shanghai next year. The group wants to come back for a reunion then. I think I also want to take a semester abroad too Shanghai!
The picture above was taken on Nanjing road, the Wanfujing of Beijing, or Newbury of Boston. A temple was built there a few hundred years ago, but the city has literally popped up around it.
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