Apparently anyone with the slightest bit of common sense would know that you should carry your passport with you when you travel. HL and I failed to fit in that category. Upon arriving in Shanghai, we were refused accommodation, kidnapped and taken to the police station (though not quite the kidnapped part).
Initially told that we just needed to pay a fine and they will sort out some temporary thing for us, none of this actually happened when we reached the police station. Instead we were provided a lecture about Chinese laws and other stuff we could not quite comprehend, before given the option of going back to Hangzhou or asking our teachers to bring our passports over. After a ridiculous half hour we were finally escorted out, but not before I told them ” 没关系，我告诉我们政府”, which literally translates to “don’t worry, I’ll let our government know”. (WZ I hope you are proud.) This in no way meant that our weekend was over however. Instead it meant we got away from paying for our own room (with MB) and crashed our other friends’ room, which we succeeded in doing so by staying out late and sneaking in at ridiculously early hours.
Shopping was awesome. My bargaining skills have definitely sharpened fantastically and I now have shoes. Shanghai night life is also more exciting than Hangzhou. In fact, Shanghai took my gay-bar virginity. How it manages to stay underground yet so popular in a country like China is beyond me.
The city is so beautiful at night. I took some pretty awesome photos (I like to think so):
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