First post from the other side of the world.

I'm finally in Shanghai! I really thought I'd never arrive, sitting on that plane for what felt like 2 days. After arriving from the Dulles airport to the one in Detroit, I hopped on a huge 747 and took off to Tokyo. Guess what happened? About 4 hours into the trip our plane was leaking hydraulic fluids and we had to turn around and go back to Detriot (they claimed that was the only place they could do the repairs at). Arrived in Detriot at around 12 -1 AM. So basically I flew a total of 8 hours for nothing more than a complimentary stay at a Best Western hotel.


Anyways - today I settled in my room, chatted with the family - who happen to be awesome, and visited the school. So it's official, I am the only student from the U S of A *GRIN* - that's just fine with me. I haven't actually met any of the other students, that happens tomorrow at 1 in the afternoon.


My first impression of Shanghai:

"WOW, America is sooo behind!" - The technology here is everywhere from the bus ride I took with 4 flat screen tv's spread out, the cell phone's I've seen being used, the massiveness of everything from the bridges to the buildings. I love it. There's quite a bit of construction going on around here, right outside of my window they're building what looks like to be a huge apartment complex, the workers don't sleep (as in there is always someone pounding something - because I HEAR IT ALL THROUGH THE NIGHT!!)