Up high in the sky - Jinmao tower and yuyuan garden outing

Shanghai university organised a day trip for the new international students to go around the city! This basically involved going to the observation deck of one of the tallest buildings in Shanghai and seeing the spectacular view of the industrial side of Shanghai as well as visiting the Yuyuan gardens, which is a bit of a contrast with its "vintage China" buildings.

Waiting to go up onto the Observation deck!

On level 88, that G-force in the elevator..wow!

The shadow being cast is the JinMao tower

Really quite high up there xD

Being a crazy tourist with Kristine

 Now the Yuyuan gardens, which really mostly had old buildings, not so much a garden. But still very pretty.

I thought this was funny because its an old building with a KFC sign on it! HAHA!

 Trying to haggle down some expensive coconuts at the Yuyuan markets!

Heidi has some epic bargaining skills

Cheongsam Galore!!

Mahjong at the markets

Mao's Red book

Also in this week we all managed to buy some Shanghai university sweaters! SHU represent! 

So great to roll out of bed and chuck on before class! Not that that is something I do...often. Anyways...Until next post! Keep it real! ^_^

Way back when! as in 5ish weeks ago

So earlier in our time in Shanghai we were still discovering local shops and finding some of our favourite places to eat and buy our groceries!

Lining up for some supposedly amazing buns 

They turned out to be just ok :P It's very popular among the local people though!

Busy North Gate Halal restaurant 

Butter Milk Cookies!!

  Fruit vendors casually betting money on card games whilst we peruse the fruits and veg, gotta love the casualness! 

During our first few outing we also learnt when its best not to travel around the city via metro. Because travelling during peak hour meant we had to deal with this:

Peak hour in Sydney is looking a lot more comfortable aye?

Also....went to Xintiandi! It has lovely old school English architecture. Very touristy.

China family taking pictures amongst it!

 And went to the Rockbund Art museum :)

 

A use for old heaters!

Grains of rice with tiny Hindi Script on it

A lot has happened over the last few weeks, shall continue about it all in next post! I'll leave you with this: riding in Shanghai traffic is crazy, I don't know so many people do it on a daily basis. ><'