The scavenger hunt

Alright,

so for my elective class I am taking here in China, part of the syllabus is to be immersed in the local culture and we are required to take some photos as proof. It's nothing new, except this time there's no engineering papers involved but a little bit more creativity.


please find in the following pictures some shenannigans I found and did over inner city Shanghai.... :D

picture at a temple. With my favorite "god eyed idol"

remember the group shot? soon after we took it these Korean men asked to join us, my foot was very uncomfortably rested on this guy's crotch and he wouldn't let go of my hands.....what a comrade (consult previous entry for def'n)

We needed to go to a bookstore to see the hardship of what Chinese Students go through, here's some books they used for hacks in Catia. There were also plenty of past exams on sale and lots of English textbook translated (for cheaper than the US)

group shot outside le Shanghai Museum

At the Shanghai Museum!

Inside the museum being a scholar,  I bet the axe is mucho sharp (can you really tell it's an axe?)

Trying to pretend I can read everything and being a good tour guide as I am (what ever i say y'all believe anyways)

Title of the script:  At the Love Mountain drinking, no seriously, I'm not lying

Still trying to be a tour guide even with the local students around. lol

the book is called Chinese.... "I am Taiwanese" "no, your being politically incorrect". -my expeierence as a Taiwanese in China

our favorite photographer, of course he would choose the Chinese Times. Maybe a few more years and he will be on it

Peace Hotel, for some reason, is on the list and although I really don't see the reason, we took the photo anyways. Call me a tourist

This some national geographic cover shit. Props to Brian Lee. He is the true cultured man

Nanjing Rd. The pedestrian walking/ shopping/getting lured into a dark alley to buy fake watches area

Funny story here, Jeremy in our group wanted a nice watch so as we were around the area, we finally agreed to one of the vendors that came up upon us and followed her. She took us through the shadiest streets with no street lights dark alleys (interestingly, only one street parallel to the well-lit area) and as we thought we were about to get mugged, she opened a what seemed like a regular home and led us into "the store".....

Bam (apologies for the pathetic description but there were no pictures taken inside), all the luxury items you wanted with "most authentic brands in town" at knock off prices and haggling is encouraged, some of us made the interesting observation that perhaps some of these items are stolen from other tourists and although they all came with tags, when u flip the tags around you can tell it was added on later on. (duh why would a north face bag come with korean at the back and say 100% cotton)

I wasn't interested in really buying anything and tried to leave with another friend that wasn't interested and as we tried to open the door to leave individually, a man from outside the door quickly shoved us in. My guess was that there were other "transaction" (aka another group of tourists) coming on their way and the "authentic store keepers" didn't want us to see each other in order to add to the authentic expereince (okay maybe a little bullshit here, but adds dramatic effect).

Needless to say, I probably could have pissed my pants if I was 10 years younger, but I kept it together and we eventually made it out alive.

There were more photos, I shall put them all on Facebook for your browsing and mouse clicking pleasure soon.

I slacked a little with this entry since I didn't really have anything clever to say. If you are here just for laughs, here's some "Chinese luls".

only in China can you find liter jars of alcohol

aming? ah you mean almond!

very descriptive

at the museum, i was checking out this map from the 1400s and when I glanced over Africa, at around present day Tanzania (red island is Madagascar), I found the word "黑人國" (black people country). yeah.

Lady doing her morning exercise, she crawled like that back and forth across the entire lawn. I say jokes.

the klan made it all the way to the ME building here in the university

Anyways, the cooking workshop is coming up next!