Wednesday, September 06, 2006

OK Go - Here it goes again!

Number 1 downloaded video off of iTunes. If you have iTunes you have to see this one. It is fabulous!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Sunday, September 03, 2006

More pictures!


Still haven't had a chance to explore much but here are some more pictures from when I first arrived in Shanghai.

This picture is right outside of Yuyuan Gardens. This is the famous tea house where Hillary and Bill dined a couple of years ago. This bridge is in almost every postcard you see of Shanghai and it is always crowded. Actually, everywhere in China is crowded.

This is a typical fruit store. As you can see watermelon is in season right now. They are super cheap. I buy 4 for $1. I am trying to adjust to the fact you can only get fruits when they are in season. No strawberries until December. Because it is so hot and humid in Shanghai, my bananas usually last about 1 1/2 days . If you held those bananas in the picture and shake your hand just a tad, all of the bananas would fall right off and peel from their skin.

Some things will always be gross!

So Chinese people do some really strange things. Most of them you just learn to deal with. The constant staring, the spitting of the loogies, smoking cigarettes everywhere. I think after a month I have adjusted to these things. But there is one thing that will always disgust me. Now I have traveled quite a bit so people peeing in random places (where there is not a toilet) doesn't really bother me anymore. But here in China you can pee anywhere. The first one where I thought I might actually throw up was the little kid on the subway. He was only about 5 feet away from me. I just kept waiting for the stream to come trickle down and hit my feet. So that was pretty disgusting. The next one came two days later. I was just minding my own business in the grocery store picking out some fruit, when all of the sudden I hear a little boy crying. I look over, and yes ladies and gentlemen, his dad was holding him over a drain in the middle of the fruit section, 10 feet away. Can anyone shed any light on this subject? Is this sanitary? Do I think it is disgusting because that is illegal where I come from?