Opening ceremony & Karaoke

6th September
This morning we had our opening ceremony and on our schedule it said we had to be there at 8.30am so we got up really early and went to the international students building. There was a western looking guy wandering around outside by himself and we thought he might have to come to shanghai by himself so we smiled at him, thinking that he would come over and talk to us but he just smiled back and then wandered off, he was so strange.
Anyway, we followed someone to the building where the opening ceremony was going to be held. I was quite excited because the word "ceremony" does make it seem as thought something exciting will happen. But we found out when we got there that it was just loads of speaches from people at uni, and they'd printed off translations in all different languages so we'd read the speaches before theyd even happened.
We were just sat in the room waiting for the speeches to start and then someone said that they would start at 10. soooooooo annoying, i could have stayed in bed for another 2 hours! So we had to watch some crap film which showed the uni campus and then another crap film of the new years party with people doing stupid dances to christmas songs.
The speeches finally started, but luckily they didnt last too long. BUT one of the speeches was from a masters student who was the wierd guy from before. He was from Germany and had been doing chinese for 5 years. He made a speech in chinese which I didnt understand, and then he started talking in english and told us that he hadnt prepared his speech and that he was so nervous that he had to smoke half a packet of cigaretes before he could talk to us, and then he carried on talking about wierd stuff. such a strange person.

luckily it only lasted about 45 minutes.

afterwards i went up to the supermarket and on the way i looked in one of the many many dvd shops and i got the new harry potter film for only 5 yuan (35p)

Tonight the most exciting thing happened - we went to karaoke for sunny's birthday. We had our own private room with a big computer screen and loads of songs to choose from. And for £3 each we got to have the room for 3 hours and we got loads of food. It was so good. There were so many random songs, we especially enjoyed the spice girls!!! It was so much fun, we will definately be doing karaoke again.