friday i went shopping again at shangyang market. Practiced barganing, and also tried something crazier, bargaining in english! oh man thats fun! i helped on of my classmates to buy some shirts with my mad bargaining skills. after that i went to eat at a japanese fast food restaurant which is my favourite fast food place. They got a bowl of rice with some chicken on top with some darn good sauce. after we got back to the dorm, my friend realized he left his wallet, containing 175 Euros and his passport in the taxi! what was worse was we didnt keep a receipt of the cab since the fare was so little..but we really needed that piece of paper to locate that cab. poor guy! so remember to check that all your belongings are with u when u leave, dont be a stupid foreigner! Later that night i went to sing kareoke at a place called 'Big Echo' on Nanjing road. First time i went singing in shanghai, but darn, was it fun! it was a good bye party for a Thai girl and we didn't get back until 5 am. So today was the 2nd time i saw the sunrise in shanghai.
I woke up at 11 ish today because i had to meet a friend of a friend at 12 at the subway station. I met this person through some other person who i dont know but knows an aiesecer.. kinda complicated. This guy i met was a software programming who wants to practice his english because he needs to pass a international english exam in order to immigrate to Australia to find a better job. After we had lunch we played some pingpong at Shanghai stadium with some aiesecers. I enjoyed playing pingpong a lot even though i havent played it since highschool... but i did pretty well ...i think. After an hour we headed to meet more aiesecers plus the japanese and korean trainees for hotpot. Darn that was good hot pot, pretty fancy place, and only for 25RMB! Unfortunately, we couldn't stay as long as we hoped because more of the chinese wanted to see the China verse Japan in the Asia Cup soccer finals. China hasn't been in the finals for over 25 years and Japan was the defending champions and the tournament favourites. Well, it turned out that Japan won because of a handball but the ref didn't do anything about it even though the replay clearly showed the handball ( i guess he didn't realize that u can't score goals with your arm). Anyways, this was just another reason for the chinese to hate japanese more. You know the japanese government requested additional protection for the 2000 Japanese spectators in beijing? the news told everyone to treat the japanese with kindness...but u know that's not going to happen. I don't know if anything bad has happened to them but there is definately a flare up in japanese hatred right now. but...actually there the hatred has always been there courtesy of the japanese invasion in world war 2.
anyways, i got aiesec training tomorrow..or later this afternoon...i still gotta figure out my material!
anyways, i got aiesec training tomorrow..or later this afternoon...i still gotta figure out my material!