JACOB MALONE, Radio major, writes: I ate breakfast at the hotel. The reason I wrote this is that I was unaware that ice was not a part of Chinese culture, but after that little surprise I was okay. We began the day�s tours on the Bund. We looked over the Huangpu River and observed the architecture of Pudong; which, it was explained to us, was nothing but rice paddies and warehouses ten years ago. We continued down the Bund and visited all the buildings from Shanghai�s past. After the Bund we traveled south to the French Concession, which was not a colony, but just the right for the French to live and do business in Shanghai. In the French Concession a shanty containing 20 families is directly across from a million-dollar-per-unit condominium. After touring the French Concession we went to the Shanghai Development Museum to see what the city has planned for the next ten years. There was an amazing miniature model of what Shanghai will look like in 2010, in time for the World Exposition.
That was all before lunch. For lunch we went to a market and ate dumplings, and I added oysters on the half shell. We walked the market for a while, then a few others and I went back to the hotel to rest. Later we went to an exhibition opening put on by young artists from Shanghai, which was interesting, to say the least. Then we went back to the Bund for drinks. After drinks a few of us took the psychedelic tunnel to Pudong. Then, finally, we went to bed.
