battleship, small spiky fruits, and the start of summer :)

First of all, visiting the kids at the Xin Hua Hospital was incredible :) Not only were they adorable, but they also just happened to be sweet, funny and ridiculously good at battleship (no, not all of them actually, just this one fantastic nine year old boy.)

road to the sea aka on the way to school

Today I bring with me some pictures of the typical morning's ride from Jinqiao, Pudong down to San Jia Gang. It's a trip that leads from one of the biggest, most upscale hubs of expat life, down through a stretch of Shanghai's easternmost outskirts, filled with factories, concrete suburbs and tile villages, and suddenly, inexplicably, through the guarded gates of a private, international school. The whole thing boggles the mind, really.

night over shanghai

Hello all,
I suppose this is it, the first post of my humble little blog, dedicated to giving the world a glimpse of this city, Shanghai, and giving me a place to put all the pictures I've amounted over the last several months. Later on, I hope to include some deeper, more intelligent commentary with my pictures, maybe some heart-felt discussion on social issues or an erudite debate regarding the economic divide, but for now, it's late and I tire, so you'll have to bear with my inane little comments. :)

So here I bring some pictures from a typical walk down my street late one humid Shanghai night.