Good morning, (for the first time) Shanghai!

So much has happened in the last 44 days, 
here are some highlights from the first couple days in Shanghai:

 Green Tree Hotel, Minghan District (08.23.2010) First day in Shanghai, the view from our hotel room.

Wuzhong Lu (aka Wuzhong Road), Minghan District (08.23.2010) First street crossing in Shanghai. This probably doesn't sound like a big deal, but taking into account that I am not practiced in the ways of walking around cities and adding onto that the fact that this is China (and let's face it they just drive different over here, still on the right side of the road, but drivers have an entirely different mentality) and that there was a scooter accident that had just occurred where we intended to cross the street (and they were yelling at each other and hitting each other while the police observed), I think that I am well within my rights to consider the entire experience a bit of an ordeal.

Shane English School, Jin Hui Branch, Minghan District (08.23.2010) First visit to our Shane Home Office, Shane - Jin Hui is located in Lotus Business Plaza, just across Wuzhong Lu from the Green Tree Hotel - Minghan, the cross streets are Wuzhong Lu and Hongzhong Lu.

The rest of the day was pretty busy, we went out to lunch with some of our managers and our welfare officer. The food was good and the meal was interesting because many of us were still refining our skills in wielding chopsticks. Haha. Also, I tried thousand year old eggs! They were different, but good.

What else, hmm. We followed that up with beginning our apartment search...