It's so Shanghai !!!: Catching up

I have finally found the way to continue my blog and feel so happy for that reason! So it's my 3rd week in Shanghai and I'm still living in the hotel (( Oh, I wanted to complain to Radek about it to get some support, just a sec, will drop him an email. I'm writing this post in my outlook at work to publish it later on. It's been a loooong 6 day long :-O working week for me and on Friday I'm not able to think or to work anymore :-P Sent a message to Radek and feel a bit better…
So as I missed almost 3 weeks just a brief catch up on latest events:

Flew to Shanghai Business class - life-time experience!!! Can I get more champagne and caviar please?

Arrived to Pudong airport which impressed me at the passport control where they receive the satisfaction feedbacks from the passengers with the help of little device that has satisfactory buttons. I pushed "satisfied". Later saw the same in the post office. Do banks have them as well? Hmm… all government statuary offices? Need to investigate deeper.

Checked in Saturday May 16 in Dong Hu hotel, 5 mins from my office.

First weekends were not so exciting, I was just catching up on sleep to get over the jet leg.

Monday went to office which is in K.Wah center right on the Huaihai Lu (you see I'm memorizing all these Chinese names and Lu means road..) My IBS team seems quite nice and friendly…so far at least. Here is my cactus that grows next to my working place...cute, ha?

During the week I was working hard and long hours and my body was still adjusting to new environment, food, water - which is btw really really bad, air - which is btw really, really bad and jet leg was still there.Though with all the mentioned above I did a very good job during a week in finding new people in Shanghai and through FB and Skype met nice people. Sasha was the first one to go out and have beers with me - nice, funny and smart guy. We still keep in touch.

Then comes next week and Tuesday with Yana (I met her on the internet as well) . It was a fantastic night, we both really enjoyed it. I got free invitations to an art exhibition with free drinks and wine and finger food (it's one of the advantages of being a foreigner - laowai- in China that you get free stuff like that from time to time) from my real estate agent (the one who can't still find me a home, it's chinese way of doing business, baby). It was our starting point, we both looked cool and glamorous. I think I drunk half a bottle of wine just by myself and of course I wanted to continue the party and so we did. Catching a taxi (which are really cheap here! Thumbs up for that!) and driving to a club, need to ask Yana for a name. It turned out that we both have the same fav cocktail - Long Island, yeh, right - it's the killer. Oh, my, we were dancing like crazy..just like it's mentioned in the list "You know you've lived in China too long, when….You go to a nightclub and jump on stage, go crazy dancing cos the locals think you are a movie star… and so do you! " LOL

Next day after the party was BAD, BAD, BAD and above that I had to go for the medical check-up early in the morning…how they could find some blood in my alcohol is still a question to me…lol…The worst part of the whole night before is that I hardly remember the way home and my conversation with Radek at 2 am on skype…Honey, I'm really sorry for that…you know, I'm a bad girl sometimes. And why in the world do I have all these bruises all over my body: was I beaten in the club or it's the impact of bad ecology in Shanghai? Hmmmm…puzzled...

First holiday in China - Dragon day! It was a three day holiday, which I enjoyed a lot. I met more people and Gulnara led us to the park with boat racing which we hardly saw. It was so so crowded and reminded me of my home town when celebrating any big event the whole city goes to Zaliv and gets loose :-)