Another Busy Week in Shanghai

It has been another busy week in Shanghai! This week I played with the folk group in a few masses at St Peter's Church, we had our Chinese written test, and had to give our presentations for our papers! I have yet to start on the second paper, which is due in a week or so, although I have started finding additional references and adding to my bibliography. Anyway, for the most part the course is complete and we had a debrief session today.

I am off to Beijing tomorrow! Exciting, isn't it? The early flight isn't quite so exciting, however, as it means that I will have to be up at the crack of dawn to get to the airport. Should be good to be on the move again.

The Resident Director for the study programme bought my guitar (slightly discounted from the purchase price). I am glad it is going to a good home and hope that he and his wife get plenty of enjoyment out of it. I also gave away a lot of other odd-and-ends that I had collected here, such as a basketball, some books, a bag, and some clothes. They were useful while I was here, but it isn't practical or useful to be carrying these extra things around to Beijing or back to Sydney.

The other night we had a fair-dinkum flood around the hotel. It had rained heavily, but not much more so that previous nights. However I think these regular downpours over a few days gradually backed everything up and .... At the moment I am trying to upload some more photo's so that you can have a look, but the link is a little flakey.

I'm not sure what facilities will be available in Beijing. Hopefully I will have a way to post notes, but probably not upload more photo's until I get back to Oz.

Peace