CRR09 Day 16, Thursday - Homeward Bound

In about one hour we will begin our journey home to Portland. We will do the time dance and arrive home before our flight leaves Shanghai. The kids are roaming the halls waiting to settle in and watch movies for the next 12 hours.

Yesterday, after good-byes to our host families and LiDa we had the opportunity to experience real China traffic. It was so bad the bus driver was teaching us new #@!*%! words. Through the "haze" we could glimpse the skyline of Shanghai. It is a city like no other. Kojo explained that Shanghai is an experimental ground for architects as no other city has the cheap labor force to which enables architects to explore architectural boundaries.

We spent the day walking the Bund and shopping on Nanjing Road. Kojo promised the kids a surprise in the evening and he did not disappoint. We went to an acrobatic performance and saw some amazing feats. One (very) young girls twisted herself into a pretzel. In the last act motorcycles entered a giant globe. First just one road around the sphere then another and another. When we thought no more could fit along came another. Certain that four was the maximum we were all shocked when a woman in black leather rode on stage! It was a very exciting.

See you later today!