Surrounded by water. Surrounded by people.
I need to wash my hair. It has started launching its familiar passive aggressive attacks that let me know it needs attention, such as falling out (don’t be alarmed we go through this all the time). I need to wash my hair in China. So I need to buy some shampoo (and conditioner etc.) In […]
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When you’re in a new city and you don’t speak the language, little advances become huge successes. Today, my roommate and I successfully got our nails done in Shanghai and it seems like a TRIUMPH. My roommate Jennifer and I had been saying we needed to find somewhere to get our nails done for a […]
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Sooo…we hadda do dis ting for school called Reflective Writing where we capture our thoughts and feelings about our experience and our future plans by keeping a journal or writing a blog. So I GUESS every so often I will shift gears from the Shanghai beauty tidbits to write something a lil more personal (ugh!) […]
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Today I was extremely proud of myself for accomplishing some major things that I’ve needed to do since I got here: Getting a multi-trip deducting balance metro card, taking passport pictures at a little automated booth in the metro station for all the administrative things I need to take care of and getting school supplies […]
Read MoreThere is a huge to-scale model of Shanghai in the Shanghai Urban Planning Museum. This is my neighbourhood in that model. My apartment building is one of the cylindrical high rises in the centre right of the pic. It was extremely difficult for me to find an apartment in Shanghai. This is because all the […]
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cities and islands 