Friday, March 23 -- It's 9:40 am Shanghai time and the students just got off for their last company tour of the trip. They will tour Citigroup this morning and be home by noon. The students have the afternoon off and then there is a SMU reception this evening for the students and SMU alumni in China.
Yesterday was a great day. Anita and I followed a walking tour of the French Concession. It was a very charming area of Shanghai and for the most part, it was free of sidewalk solicitations for Gucci purses. We ate from a local street vendor (pictured here), toured a "wet market" with snakes, frogs, turtle, live chickens, butchers, vegetables, noodles and tofu. We found a quaint street with artists boutiques before we hit the main upscale shopping street. The gods looking down on us favorably as we both found some beautiful gifts and souvenirs. In the afternoon, I walked down the main promenade from our hotel that eventually leads to the Bundt water walkway. It's hard to describe how many people are here....crossing streets is a dangerous game between the cars, bicycles, mopeds and masses of people. We had a great Thai dinner at the Xin Tiandi (a French-quarter-like area) then we came home and crashed for the night.
Anita went home today so I feel a little lost this morning without my travel pal but I'm sure I will still find something interesting to do....more later!
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