Long train, Shanghai rain and germans

After 3 whole days in Qingdao I thought it was time for change. I said goodbye to my irish friend and my canadian roommate and headed for the trainstation. The taxidriver did´nt understand where I wanted to go but I solved it with some bodylanguage :p

At first I thought about to skip Shanghai and go to Hangzhou instead because I was a bit tired of big cities. But there was´nt any trains directly to Hangzhou so then I decided to go straight to Shanghai. The journey was for 10 hours and this was a fast train. I was hoping to get the window seat but as a dissapointment I got a seat in the corridor and the chinese guy beside me was rude and did´nt want to talk :p

I felt it was goin to be a loooooong looong day. Except me a dont think there was any more foreigners on the train.

The most of the people was old and middle age men travel home to their families. No one spoke english but I tried to make some kind of conversation with the guys without much succes.

10 hours on a train is ok, I wouldnt make it more. Maybe if I had a friend to talk to during the trip and not this rude guy beside me.

When I arrived in Shanghai it was raining heavy so I ran out to get a taxi. I brought a paper with the discription to a hostel in the city. I got there and checked in. I payed 120 yen per night and the room was very clean and had everything you need. The best room I had during the whole trip. I loved the hostel, there where many students from the whole world and it had a big room with bar, food, pool and you could play videogames.

The staff where nice so I directly got someone to speak with. The first night in the bar I had this 5 yen tsingtao bottle and I met some nice english people to play pool with. I also got time to practise my spannish with Victor, a mexican architect. There where some indian people too, heheh where funny guys.

The following day there arrived a class of german and dutch people wich I had a lot of fun with here in shanghai.

Shanghai was not the most beautiful city I´ve seen in my life and it was raining almost all of the time. But I walked around anyway and checked out Pudong river and the Bund. The shanghai tower with around 600 metres high, thats amazing. I had a haircut for 10 yen and a german friend joined me for a chinese massage, the first one ever! It felt good. The chinese noodles and barbeque on the street tasted good.

I was supposed to stay in shanghai for only a couple of nights but it ended up 2 weeks. Even if it was a lot of rain and not a small city I had a good time here, I made so many new friends from many countries and got a lot of things done.