Thursday I could actually see blue sky when I left the apartment in the morning, for the third day in 4 weeks. Kinda threw me. Still hot and humid, though, which was reassuring. Had a pretty slow day at work, although I did look up some vocabulary and call Circus World with a question, the answer to which I was able to understand. It's the little victories that matter. Also, Simon told me I look like Anne Hathaway, which is something I haven't heard in a while. He just saw The Devil Wears Prada.
Around 3 (or 15:00) the sky got really dark and all the buildings gradually disappeared as a storm descended. It was pretty exciting. When the storm let up, weather.com claimed it still felt like 107 degrees outside.
Sarah and I decided to meet up for dinner tonight, which was easier said than done, but we eventually found each-other on the Bund and took a bus to Fudan University. Walked a ways trying to find this cute pedestrian street of restaurants, and were eventually successful. Had something that may or may not qualify as vendor food...a little risky, but a lotta delicious. Then noodles for dinner and a milk and papaya drink. By that time we'd spent a long while in transit, so we decided to part ways, and I managed to find the road home without a problem. Sarah's a really interesting person to talk to. Our mutual interest in the world and our ability to talk about both the U.S. and China (and her enthusiasm in telling me about Hong Kong) give us plenty of topics.
I decided it would be nice to get out of Shanghai this weekend, so I hope to make a trip to Suzhou on Saturday, which is no more than an hour or so away by train. We shall see!
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The small smoothie I had this morning cost more than 7 times as much.
Still 107 after the storm. Ugh.
So nice you met up with Sarah for an educational and delicious outing.
Ali, I confess that I never gave much thought to the weather in China. I'm amazed that there is so little sunshine and so much heat and humidity!
So when is your move to the A/C'd apartment? I don't know how one could stand those temps without A/C!
P.S. I added Shanghai as one of my "favorites" on Accuweather.com, along with Atlanta, Lincoln, Minneapolis, and NYC. Just checked, and all but Shanghai show sunshine. It shows clouds and rain. Is this typical summer for them?
If you can't bring back shoes for me, at least bring a smoothie.
I hate thunderstorms.
it's so weird that you sort of look like anne hathaway because me and becca think my mom sort of looks like anne hathaway. and you both do but in different ways because you and my mom look nothing alike. but anne hatahway is the common ground between you and my mom. like the middle section in a venn diagram. awesome.
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