Bet you miss me! Well, I decided to do something constructive and post something here.
As the title suggest, yes, yours truly just got back from Shanghai on Sat night.
It was with the school and it was really awesome and fun and I gained alot more than I thought (in terms of learning).
The company was really the best I have to say, friends make all the difference:)
So to start of, here is basically some info on the trip.
In SR every year, students are introduced to the SRGCE programme during orientation where we get sent overseas by the school with a choice of 10 over destinations, at the end of the year. Different trips had different objectives, some CIP based while others were on a learning trip or cultural trip. Shanghai was my choice for various reasons, but shall leave that to your imagination;)
So we had to go through our selection and interviews and the first meeting commenced in April.
There was alot of preparation for the trip, others may be practicing their skit or training for their SRGCE, but mine was all on research and presentation. We prepared for several months and finally we were off to Shanghai!!
Day 1
Our's was a morning flight so I was up at 3:30 and at the airport by 5. Benefits of living in Pasir Ris!! And thank goodness ours was SQ as I heard other trips had terrible airlines. It was a 5 hour flight from Spore to Shanghai. We arrived around noon, was introduced to our tour guide, Jacky, and had our first meal which was kfc. I was laughing deep down inside, cause I thought it was really funny! Then we sat the maglev train to somewhere.... it was basically to experience a bullet train that goes up to 400km/hr.
Getting our bags checked.
We basically got our bags checked at every important place we went, even the metro.
SUNNY AND HAIBAO!!
Maglev
On the train
We then alighted and boarded our coach and proceeded with our next destination, Xintiandi.
We were there to visit the site of the 1st Chinese Communist Party Conference (CCP).
It was located in the old French concession in Shanghai where French laws used to apply. It also explained the French influences over the architecture of the buildings there which are mainly occupied by pubs, cafe and restaurants.
Team Publicity!Xintiandi is surrounded by skyscrapers as the architect decided to preserve its heritage by not touching it but changing it to a Shanghai version of Chijmes during the remodeling of the are. Lots of angmohs and socializing in pubs. heehheehe
We later checked in at our hotel in Shanghai and prepped up for our reflection and discussion for the night.
The night was concluded with me and nico trying to unpack in our room, getting my laptop up and heading to bed for the next day.
Shall continue with the rest another day. Dead beat now...
