My first day

The flight

My dear godfather, ciocia and Krzysiu delivered me to the airport. I think the frequency of me saying ''I don't want to go'' was greater than that of cars passing by a street in Shanghai. But I didn't have any options – I was doomed! (so far all this sounds very depressing)

While waiting for my gate to open I observed the people going to Helsinki and the people going to Madrid. The Finnish were already standing in a neat line with expressions of total seriousness or maybe that was just the biggest hangover in the history. The Spanish were in a chaotic line which didn't reflect any pattern. They were smiling and laughing. So I asked if they would change my ticket... no I didn't. . .

The flight was long, food was ok, nothing exciting really. I didn't get any sleep at all.

Shanghai

We landed, it was 8am Chinese time. I had to make my way to the hostel I booked with David. I went out of the airport and it was so hot and humid... I felt like in a rain forest. So I got on the bus no.6 which was going to Zhong Shan Gong Yuan. My fist thoughts about China were that it's really really green, there are loads of flowers (and people) So after 2 hours or something (ough) I got of at the stop and where was I supposed to go??? So I was waking with this big 25 kilo bad, and all Chinese were staring at me(''foreign devil'') And they were all staring and I didn't know where to go, and all the chinese were so old and staring and I was lost and they were staring (can you see the irony of the situation?) So I asked this cute lady in pink how to get to Cao Yang Lu. She asked me if I wanted to take the underground. And I was like

''What?''

''the underground''

''what is it''

''it's a fast train''

''Oh YEAH!''

So she wrote ''the underground'' on my piece of paper and I went in the direction unknown. Then I saw this one Chinese guy who wasn't staring (a PLUS) so I asked him. He said he's waiting for his friend who speaks better English and then they'll show me. So they took me to there. This one man even bought me a ticket for the subway. And then they helped me to find the hostel and said goodbye. Thank You so much! :)

So I got to the hostel, which is really nice. We booked a twin room, but they didn't have it and we got a twin room with a bathroom!!! And then I went to sleep for 8 hours. The beds here are quite hard and but jumping on them is ok :) When I woke up I went to eat some Chinese food which was tasty (and it took me like an hour to eat it) And David came so I'm not scared anymore :)

China is big and scary and I'm experiencing something called THE CULTURAL (not revolution) SHOCK!