The end

I feel once again very neglectful towards my blog, not updating it since Beijing was rather silly on my part as now I'm home in the UK and realised just how much I didn't write about over the last month and a half in Shanghai. How to summarise that? I guess as you would assume, a lot of nights out, cheap food and hangovers in classes. But otherwise it went something like this...

Had a kidney infection, that sucked, couldn't move and had to pay £250 for the pleasure of 7 tablets and a lovely chat with a doctor who was probably the most dedicated doctor. Emails aand phone calls and offers to open the surgery out of hours if I was in pain. Probably worth the £250 but I did miss the NHS at this point. I've now claimed this back though, thank god for insurance! 3rd claim of the year... They must hate me.

A day trip to Suzhou, a great group of people and a lot of scenery. Went with Hutong school people, mostly Lucas friends and then Charlee and I. We bought hats on a boat because we got ripped off. However twathat club didn't last long. We wandered round gardens and then got temporarily stranded when there wasn't enough tickets on the last train home. 

Mum visited! I made her try Chinese food and she actually enjoyed it! Biggest success. We did every sight there was to see in Shanghai except the pearl tower which I'm sad I never did. So much walking and so many pictures. Buut I had to do it once so made sense with mum! She had a great week, so did I. Highlight was seeing shanghai from 100 storeys high, lowlight possibly seeing mum start dancing to moves like jagger, by herself in the champagne bar of the 94th floor, the highest bar in the world I must add. I wanted the floor to just swallow me up. Overall a great week with Mumma in China.

Charlees birthday. Pretty crazy! Massages in the day and then our final Pubcrawl at night. Rather rather messy, everyone was such a happy drunk and it was so nice to see how many people came.

Lucas last week! The best brunch ever, ate so much I was sick but never been soo amazed by such a large choice of such incredible food. Last crazy night with the lianhua boys at Muse, so sad but always such fun. 

Revision revision revision. C ban exams were 10x worse than B ban and had the weekend after Luca left to cram for them. Absolutely crazy, downloaded a flash card system which made me learn a lot, but still much harder than the first set of exams. Sad face.

FREEDOM. Final champagne ladies night straight after exams, followed by too much drinking and eating with friends, and tooooo much shopping at the fake market again. Whoops at how much money I spent.

Packing up, incredibly sad seeing my room go from so homely to so bare. Luckily we could pay to stay a few more days. I was pretty much the last there, so I spent my final evening packing up, watching the Wimbledon final and enjoying my last Pork buns. 

And that's it. Highlights of the last 7 weeks crammed short and sweet for one final summary blog post.

Over and out! For potentially one last time...