Time 845am Saturday
This week is finally over, I am happy to be finished with school. I am officially no longer a student and I am only a short term tourist. Thankfully, so is everyone else on the trip. I will now also be able to go see some sites with my brother - who arrived yesterday afternoon.
End of School
This week we all had to sit down and finish school with some finals. I thankfully only had two finals, one from the distance Purdue course and another final for the local Purdue Students Only Thermodynamics II course. I had studied plenty for the Purdue course and I believe it strongly paid off. The Thermo test could have gone much better. I am very excited that school has finally come to a close here in China. It marks the beginning of the end.
The end coming around is a big deal because I am looking for to coming home. I recognize that I will likely not be able to come back to China for quite sometime. I am looking forward to coming back and speaking more Chinese than I do now. It is very exciting to be a tourist again, very little responsibility and staying active each day with a goal of seeing everything there is to see. School and homework no longer are in the way!
World Expo 2010 Visit 1
On Thursday May 6th, I visited the Expo for the first time. I made my way to plenty of the pavilions and it was a bit of a scouting mission for the rest of the folks on the trip. Since I only had the two finals, I was able to go out while many students had a final on Thursday evening. The top pavilions I saw on Thursday were, Italy, Netherlands, Canada, United States, Sweden, Germany, Spain. For more details click "Read More" The other pavilions were either not worth visiting or not worth mentioning. It was a pretty cool experience. It is along the lines of what I was expecting.
Arrival of Brother
Surprise! My brother has come as a surprise to many people, friends and family. He is here for a ten day blitz of China until we leave on the 17th. We are planning on going to see the sites of Shanghai and have flights booked for a short trip to Beijing during the middle of the coming week! I am happy to have be able to share some of this with someone so close to me. It also is a great conclusion for my trip because I have become accustom to the happenings in China. Dropping in a fresh perspective that is seeing all of these differences for the first time is a very interesting contrast.
Biber
World Expo 2010 Review of Day 1
These are all of the sites I visited on May 6th. The attendance for that day was just over 116,000 people and the longest line I waited in was Germany for about one hour. The grading scale is objective and based on the idea that C is starting point. Then each country and either beat the expectation or have grades deducted for a poor showing. I suppose it relates to an expectation level for the country and a execution level.
A: The country was expected to do well. The pavilion represented the country and/or culture very well and is recommended for everyone to see. The pavilion at some point had a "wow" moment.
B: The country should have done better. The pavilion is full of things from that country but not doing a great job of relaying the message in a new and creative way. These pavilions lacked the wow factor, but had exhibits worth stopping at looking at.
C: The country had a pavilion, do not go out of your way but if there is no line go check it out. The exhibits may do not connect to an American personality well, maybe they connect to a Chinese personality better.
D: The country left me disappointed. The country did not meet expectation levels and/or the pavilion was poorly designed and lacked creativity.
F: The country hardly even showed up. No creativity and lack of exhibits. Highly not recommended.
As:
Canada (cool video areas, well designed)
USA (I enjoyed the videos, poor design)
Spain (Beautiful performances, thought provoking design)
Bs:
Germany (long wait)
Sweden
Italy assorted
Netherlands "Happy Street" had some cool displays
Cs:
Mexico Videos
Chile Nice wood design
Norway wood design
Monaco video / displays (racing, uh.. some other stuff)
Ds:
Luxembourg
Brasil If you like soccer maybe
France Lot of projections
Fs:
Ireland
Iceland poor movie (thats all it was, one room)
UK its just a room with acrylic rods
Cuba it's just a room
Caribbean Pavilion no one was in there, nothing much to see though, felt like a tourism agency
Expo Food: (RMB)
Brasil
60 -hot dog, fires, sprite
Germany
150-dishes (lots of that german stuff, nothing I wanted to eat)
"Irish Pub"
35 - 1/2 Pint Irish Red
120 - Fish n Chips
120 - Sausage + Potatoes
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