Dearests,
I have little time, so I'll simply write some thoughts.
I am in a crazy internet cafe in Shanghai. There are about 100 gaming computers in a huge hall on the 2nd floor (1st floor UK), with a foot massage parlor on the ground floor. hmm. Gaming is tiring for your feet.
There are people smoking in the hall, and each computer has an ashtray.
We arrived last night at the Music Conservatory dormitories, where we're staying. The men stay in the guest hall, where they get a room with an ensuite bathroom and freedom to move around whenever they like. The women stay in the girls dorms, where we don't have keys to our rooms, and have an 11pm curfew. The rooms are simple, which is fine, but not very clean. The bathroom is a bit upsetting, with an open shower and toilets on a little platform -- I fell out of the toilet stall last night onto the slippery tile floor, which was scary. I'm very upset about this curfew and lack of key thing, and, in particular the fact that the guys have freedoms that we don't. For some reason the dormatory staff won't let us move to the guest house. We're trying to figure out something more suitable, but it's frustrating for the time being.
We had our first group meeting today, with introductions to the site we'll be working on, in the Fenglin district of Shanghai. We walked around the area this afternoon a bit, but weren't able to see very much.
Hong Kong was lovely. The weather was heavenly, and the island was beautiful. We went to the beach and went swimming! hooray! It was a really interesting city, and I had a great time walking around.
More later
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Dear Adrienne,
How horrible! So typical of the Chinese to discriminate against women. Are they still killing all girl-children?
Hong Kong sounds lovely!
Keep us i
informed!
love, M
heyy.. wow brings back lots of memories..i'm sorry you have to go through all that but I remember when I was in Shanghai, I was staying in a hotel that was on a college campus made for professors on a conference tour or something. Anyway, as I'd walk at night I'd see this one building, which I later found out was a dorm building, that actually had prison-like bars on the windows.. this is where the girls stayed and if they were out after curfew they were not able to get into the building. I was actually quite suprised by this, especially because the curfew was at around 9 or so. so yeah.. just thought I'd share. Maybe you could find a place sort of like mine?
well good luck with everything :)
biz
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