Thursday: Fly to Hong Kong in the early morning and spend the day at an Expo (quite tiring actually) then arrive in Shanghai on a flight right before midnight. The meal on the flight was great, even in economy. It was so nice in fact that we got ice cream! One more reason to love Asian airlines.
Friday: I woke up early and went to work on my presentation for that evening. After finding a small budget hotel in the Pudong area of Shanghai I checked in and went to work practicing. In reality it didn't matter too much, our guest was late so I had to rush through the presentation. Unlike the original plan to pass me off as an IT specialist we just said I was my boss's assistant because everyone else in the room was involved in IT. That done, we went out for a nice dinner.
Saturday: Woke up very early to head to the new Shanghai West Train Station and caught the train to Hangzhou. That was to be my fist time in Hangzhou.
It is supposed to have a nice lake and some scenery but I saw the inside of conference rooms and restaurants instead. Showing the many dialects of Chinese I met one guy with a thick Cantonese accent to his Chinese and another with a thick Hangzhou accent to his Chinese. Also, for the first time in at least a year a waitress took it upon herself to bring me a plate with a knife and fork. I had no idea what to do with it. I was using chopsticks. That night I flew to Xiamen and arrived after midnight.
Sunday: I woke up early again and went to another meeting. Then I caught the ferry and a plane back to Taiwan. It was good to get home.
Sunday: I woke up early again and went to another meeting. Then I caught the ferry and a plane back to Taiwan. It was good to get home.
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