We Love Shanghai! (the last weeks)

Hey!

Ok, so what's been happening with me lately?

Well as some of you may know it's my last week in Shanghai. And since officially ending my contract working for Jetoon a week ago I've been busy trying to pack as much of Shanghai and its sights into these last two weeks as humanly possible. I've been working too, rigging my new characters for the blog but that's for another post. So I've been exploring The Yu Bazaar and it's underground antique and jade markets,I've been to the Yu Yuan Gardens and had traditional Chinese tea at the Huxinting Tea House with Tom, Lucy, her cousin Jackie. And on top of this I've been exploring the Bird and Antiques Markets and Xin Tiandi with my friend A.J, who's going to be living and working in Shanghai for the next 2 years (good luck!).

While this weekend I had a girly shopping spree with Ying a friend from my studio in Raffles City, which is just outside People's Square station. Six floors of girly shopping heaven and a maze of underground stalls where only the brave dare haggle with the stall owners here. The one we were dealing with was a particularly good actress. I thought she was going to cry when I offered her my price for the two pedants I wanted to buy! The lady deserved an oscar! Ying also took me to Nanjing Lu which is really amazing at night! So thats what I've been up too lately. Also, according to Ying my Chinese isn't too bad! She had no problem understanding me and I was even able to understand most of the conversations when she was helping me bargin in the stores. And I even surprised her with my 'Bu Yao!' when we were walking down Nanjing Lu and we kept getting chancers trying to sell us fake designer bags. I'm actually going to miss all that.

This week I'll probably go back and haggle for more bargins but since now I have only 5 days left I should really start wrapping up my life in Shanghai and start packing. Or at least thinking about it. I've got as far as taking my suitcase out of the wardrobe and placing it by my window so I can mentally prepare myself but that's as far as the packing has gone... I also need to go back to the studio and collect the work that I've animated over the last six-seven months. It's still hard to believe that I've been living in China for the best part of a year. Time really does fly by when you're living in Shangahai!


I've posted up the photos separately as there are quite a few. Enjoy!

M x