Shanghai Bob

On Monday we took two trains and a bus out to the Fudan University campus to see if Andrew had a made a good decision deciding to study at Jiao Tong.  By the time we were on the second train, we had already decided Yes.  Fudan is just too far away — this may be great if you need to focus on your studies, but if you want to get to know Shanghai, an hour transit time is too much.

The campus itself is big, green, and overrun with bicycles.  You would have to get a bicycle just to be able to match the pace of traffic on the sidewalks.

The trip was worth it, though, as Andrew got to use the knowledge he had acquired in just three weeks of study to get us where we wanted to go.  On the way, we learned that bringing explosive briefcases on the train, spitting, and jumping down onto the tracks are problems that the Chinese authorities are working hard to eliminate.

This entry was posted on Monday, October 6th, 2008 at 8:19 am and is filed under shanghai.