Tuesday 4th June (via Lizzies email)

Today our group and the group from France had Calligraphy lessons and Chinese language lessons. This seems to be a very difficult language to learn and the basic takes around 6 weeks so we could only learn very little. The language has certain "Tones" to their voice for particular letters.

We then in the late afternoon went on a city tour of Shanghai City and also The Huangpu River Cruise....This was one amazing trip of a lifetime.  I have some brilliant photographs of the city lite up.

I wish I could  put on some of the photos as they are amazing :-)

The weather is very warm and although not always sunny the heat is enjoyable. We have had just a couple of light showers that only last a matter of seconds.

We mostly eat in the universities canteens (three of) the food is always in vast amounts and choice. The shops on the campus are pretty good too with most things that we like at a cheap price. Beer is especially cheap and very cool and enjoyable. There is one particular shop which sells English pastries ...I recommend the doughnuts for breakfast (yummy)

Ohhhhh We ate outside the campus last night at a lovely restaurant  we all had something different including frogs legs.....however I would say they were more like the actual frogs back ..going by the bones  eeeewww I did taste them and they were OK just tasted a little like chicken.

The toilet in the restaurant was on the floor ....so ladies had to squat to relieve themselves, It was an experience anyway.

I will try blog again soon as the timing is very tight with all the tasks that we have ahead of us. We are seven and a half hours behind the UK