Shanghai!!!

I've settled into Shanghai for about two weeks now, but (for the 2.5 people who read this) blogs, facebook, photo sharing sites, and youtube have all been blocked in china. oh xinjiang province uprisings! (not to mention the recent 20th anniversary of tiananmen sq. and 60th anniversary of the founding of the communist party.. or something of that sort)

anyhoo, Shanghai has been fantastic and so different from anywhere I've been to in the past. living in china off of American $$ makes for very easy living! for the same price as a tiny room and airplane sized bathroom in london, I get a three bedroom, two bathroom, full kitchen, living room, etc etc

the food here is great (they even have schwarma reminiscent of the London late night delicacy sort), the women are incredibly fashionable thin and tall (and pale because its beautiful to be sickly white in this half of the world), and public transport is convenient and clean. Korean BBQ and hotpot, once saved for celebrations in new york, have become nightly outings for us.

its still difficult to load photos but i'll add them soon hopefully. so far, so good!