G'day All,I'm back in Melbourne after a hectic last week in Shanghai, with last-minute sight-seeing and goodbyes. With a friend I managed to look around the financial centre of Pudong, visited a Shanghai Expo 2010 exhibition and had dinner at Hooters Pudong where the attention of the waitresses, and their show performance, were the highlights of the night (refer photos).
I also managed my first massage in China i.e. a proper massage, not a "happy" one. In fact the rather attractive masseur left me rather bruised and battered after climbing on my back and using her knees as part of her routine, followed by a flurry of karate chops to my neck and shoulders. Whilst it felt OK at the time, I was rather sore for days after!
If all goes according to plan I will be returning to China (Fuzhou) in early September to teach a Diploma of Business module: "Manage Effective Workplace Relationships" + a couple of I.T. units at Minjiang University. However, I will be required to take another course (Certificate IV) at North Melbourne Institute of Technology (NMIT) in the second half of August.
Having packed lightly and with a pocketful of yuan when I arrived at Shanghai's Pudong departure airport I found that the airport catered very well for extracting those last few hundred yuan notes, via their variety of rather expensive shops. After some last-minute purchases even the restaurants charged liked wounded bulls: a coffee cost me 68 yuan ($12.60) and a bottle of mineral water was 20 yuan ($3.70)! Perhaps they were priming me for my return to expensive Melbourne!
I hope we can catch up in the next few weeks.
Regards... Renzo
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