A Goodmorning to you all, coming all the way from Xi'an China! Yes there are likely to be a few exclamation marks in this one; just a few!
Had a safe trip, no problems, asked for around 50 glasses of water to show off a tiny bit of chinese, asked for some tea as well but didn't work so well.
Everyone here is very friendly, warm welcome from the staff and a tasty breakfast (haochi) from Ms Li. Some really broken conversation on my part and now at the computer taking full advantage of the fact no one else has arrived yet.
Getting into Shanghai was interesting, huge crowds from all over and lots of polite chinese staff directing everyone in excellent english. As you got further from the arrivals area the amount of english disapeared very quickly, but I am enjoying the excuse to make bumbled attempts at speaking chinese... chinese pod's lesson "too polite" has prooved very useful! (just another wee ! there incase you hadn't noticed)
So yes, appropriately silly and happy photo of me in our homebase to follow soon, take care everyone, ziajian
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1 comment:
Well as impressive enough as asking for a glass of water is (it is it very for me at least) Man can not live on water alone! (see I can use '!' too!) how are you getting on eating, and reading menus etc, when in Singapore it was really difficult and at leased there most people we spoke to could speak some English, very useful and friendly. Keep up the posting.
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