Semester 2 Chapter VIII: Presentations & Beers

Time flies like crazy and April is almost over. Cannot believe that in two months I’m gonna touchdown in Prague and have my first proper Summer holiday since I was like 17… Shanghai is still good to me. I haven’t closed the window in my room for days now, I spend lot of time outside and there’s really not much I could bitch about…

There’s a new hangout place I recently discovered cause my dawg lives just above it. Located close to our Xuhui campus, it’s pretty much a beer shop with countless different brands from all over the world and a pretty big seating area outside. Very DYI, very street, pretty cheap...You can get a bottle of Leffe for 18 RMB. Takes me about 15 minutes to get there by bike so yeah… We got another one.

One of my friends from the Czech Republic who studies in Beijing visited Shanghai for couple of days so we hung out yesterday. Got some fruits, got some beers and spent most of the day outside. All my Slavic motherfuckers stand up! Gonna have to do a Beijing trip sometime in June…

 

A guy that was my Couchsurfing host in Shanghai about two years ago had a layover in the city too. I met with him and couple of his peers last Thursday, we got a dinner and ended up drinking in a student apartment. Now, when I say student apartment, I don't mean a shithole like the one I live in. This was some expensive shit with a fucking ping-pong table in a living room and a kitchen about 3 times as big as my bedroom. Oh well... 

Me and my bro also had to a presentation for a class two days ago. This led to one of the most student evenings I have ever experienced. We met at the campus in the evening and stayed there until they closed pretty much everything at 10pm. We wrapped it all up with a Family Mart beer and two days after killed it in the class. Not exactly sure why, but this whole thing felt like from some kinda cheesy teenage student movie…

When I said time flies, I really meant it. I feel my days are packed. It’s school, work, running or some workout and when I have some extra time, I just go to Jingan park and read a book. I’m on some Bruce Sterling now. At the moment, I’m sitting in the library at the Minhang campus, drinking coffee and listening to new Rich Homie Quan. I’m about to hit a gym and meet with my supervisor.

Highlights:

• I got an official hoodie of my university. Fuck yeah!
• Chocolate happy muffin from a friend of mine. She just kills this shit.
• Summer’s here and I wear short sleeves so my tattoos are visible again… And that means that from time to time I get randomly approached by people asking to take a picture. Or I spot people taking pictures of me secretly… Same old story…