Chinese Gandalf

If someone could figure out why these pictures are formatting like this...I'd appreciate that.

Anyway Friday we had a lazy afternoon and then drove out to another part of Suzhou University where William and his students were having a party to celebrate his leaving. When we got there, Mimi (my mom's friends daughter) had brought a gaggle of girls to split off with each of us. The pairing up was sorta awkward and I ended up not with anyone...I think they thought I was a student. The campus had a nice lake where according to one girl, on nice days "there are lots of valentines." The most prominent feature, however, were the dorm buildings which looked like prisons. The girls told us that at 11 pm, all the electricity goes out.

Towards the end of the party, William told everyone in the room (about 200 English major students, 95% female) to get up and meet someone new. Basically every girl with a camera flocked to the boys to get pictures with white people. Jane was mistaken for an ABC (american born chinese) and they thought I was a sophomore in the college.

Saturday we went to Shanghai. Unfortunately we were only able to visit a couple "key tourist" locations, the Oriental Pearl tv tower and an old, really crowded shopping district. We boat-toured the landscape and saw the buildings from MI-3. We also rode to the top of the tower but it was too smoggy/cloudy to see much.

I'll have someone else blog about the stuff I forgot about.


Zai jian!
Cindy