First Day back in China!!!!

Hey everyone!

My first offical blog post for the Funky World of Bailey and my 2009 trip to China.

I have just arrived back in China. It felt like I hadn't left. My mom went to work at her school and that's when I went to go get some hot coco at a cafe called Costa Coffee. In my area, there are many different coffee shops along with lots of chinese shops. I brought my homework while Peter was in a meeting with the director of Free The Children China. I got to meet Annie Chang and I told her about our school and the H20 club plus the projects that we do. Boy o Boy, these people sure like they're meetings!! I slurped on my rasberry hot coco and worked on my homework until 11:30.

After that, our friend Annie invited us to go to Pearl City. This is the place where you get everything and I mean everything super cheap!!Pearl City is a huge building that has all sorts of shops. If you need shoes, shirts, DS games or you are looking for jewelry, it's here. All 3 floors of it. Its all about the bargining in that place. The unique thing about doing shopping in China at the local stores is that you can make a deal with the owner of any of the small shops.

When we got home we didnt even sit down, we went out to lunch at Julie's. To get to Julies we went down the pedestrian walk way. This is a restaurant area with all kinds of food from all over the world. Spanish, french, Thai and Italian. I should also mention there are many Chinese restaurants too! I had a lovely Bacon cheese buger with a Salad. Wait a second, isnt that a canadian dish?? O well, it was good anyway. Peter introduced me to another person. He seems to like doing that to me!!! Hmmm. This time it was a guy named Gary. Not from Sponge Bob but from Austrailia and he is one of the owners. This is when I learned that Julie's is named after the wife of one of the other people at Julie's.

We were at home for about an hour and then we were out the door to go pick up my mom. My mom surprised us with the news that we were going out for a Chinese hot pot. A Hot Pot is a big pot that is divided by separators and there are three things of soup stock. One is spicy, one is mild and the middle was a mushroom stock(Peter couldn't eat that one, good!). You then have to cook the food yourself. Here is a video from Youtube on How to cook Hotpot by some other traveller. After that hot pot we went to a local movie shop and picked up a bunch of movies.

Shanghai is a busy place. That was my first day!!!