Shanghai

Shanghai was great....the rugby was awful. So i had the pleasure of flying on a plane where leg room was scarce but i did sit next to a chinese woman which meant more leg room for me because she couldnt touch the floor with her feet. She was short and her husband was really scared and nervous. It was kind of funny. so he was clinging to the arm rest the entire flight and i dont think he moved a muscle. So i arrived in Shanghai and went directly to the canal street where there was festival going on where tons of local international restaurants had tents setup with food and drinks. Luckily, the event ended at 11:00pm because we had to wake up the next morning at 7:00 in order to make it to the rugby fields by 8:30am. We didnt arrive at the fields until 9:30pm. We slept in a little later then planned. I was privileged enough to get an air mattress which was probably the best part of the trip. Well, there were 16 teams registered to play and we got put in the group with a chinese team, japanese team, figi team, and one of the shanghai teams. The first game we played the japanese team and only lost 3-1 in tries. All the rest of the games were much worse. We only scored 1 try the entire tournament. We had a player dislocate his knee, another guy broken his hand, and another guy got whip lashed into the ground. We finally arrived home at 11:00pm that night after the after party at the fields. I was staying with the guy who dislocated his knee and his knee swelled up almost 5x bigger. So sunday we just watched some movies and played some video games. He went to the local hospital and the doctor looked at it and just said wait. So we went out to find some crutches and the first place only had one....so we bought it....and then next place had two....well a friend.....not me.....bought it and gave it to my crippled friend....and it was a different size....so he is walking around with one crutch that is for a 6'3" man and the other crutch that is for a 5'10". HILARIOUS!!!!!! I made it back to kunming okla. The biggest problem that i had on both flights was the fact that the person sitting next to kept looking over and watching my screen to watch what i was watching. It was kind of getting really annoying. because they would only do it every so often.

Shanghai was way too big for me personally. We probably spent 500RMB just on taxi fair going to different parts of the city...luckily, we could split it between 4 of us where ever we went.