Shanghai

We've finally arrived here 2 weeks ago. Things have been very busy; catching up with work situation as well as private life. We are in the stage of finalizing our apartment contract and we hope that we can move into the new apartment next week, or at least before the upcoming golden week in May so we can start feeling "homey".

We still miss Germany of course, sometimes we wake up late on Saturday and start thinking, "damn, we are late for Wertstoffhof (garbage recycling center) and grocery!!" but then we realize that we are in Shanghai now, where all shops are open Monday-Sunday till 10 pm and no garbage recycling is in place. I guess it just take some time to get used to new life.

But Shanghai itself is nice, there are lots of new things to try and learn and we will have the 2 years to do so. Unfortunately the weather is (almost) always foggy (partially due to spring and also the air pollution control is still low) so it's a bit difficult to take clear picture of the city. Perhaps it is better in summer.

We will have a golden week in beginning of May and we might fly north to Beijing and meet up a friend who is currently working there as well as revisiting the touristic places in the area. For those who wonder, China doesn't have regular religious holiday due to the communism. But throughout the year we have in total 3 golden weeks; the year is always opened with Spring Festival/Chinese New Year, then a week off for Labour Day (first week of May) and ended with National Day week (first week of October). No Easter/Christmas or any other religious holiday is celebrated.

Link to our new apartment click here