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So, my second week in Shanghai is already over. Although there is currently a lot work to do at SAP, it is a lot of fun. The Chinese colleagues are great and help wherever possible.
On Thursday, Christoph, a German intern at SAP, and I went to Metro for shopping. As you can see on the pictures…we had a lot of fun:

2007-05-10 – Shopping@Metro

We even tested some bicycles. I will get the video from Christoph within the next days…so stay tuned.

Friday night, Christoph, Yi (a German-Chinese friend of Christoph), Alexander (another fellow student of Christoph) and I went to a Korean restaurant and had Korean BBQ. Afterwards we went to a club called BabyFace and had a lot of fun. Fortunately taking pictures was not allowed.

Yesterday morning Michael finally arrived. We will both work at the same department here in Shanghai. In the evening we went with ten people to a hotpot restaurant. Hotpot means, that you have a pot with hot broth in the middle of the table. Everyone throws different kinds of vegetables and meat in it. After some minutes it is cooked and you can (try to) get it out of the hot pot using your chop sticks.

2007-05-12 – Hotpot Dinner + Window’s

Coming Thursday, the German chamber in Shanghai hosts an event, at which the former chancellor of Germany, Gerhard Schroeder, will take a speech. The event is taking place in the Jin Mao tower in Pudong. Although it is not mandatory to wear a suite, I think it is better to be over-dressed than under-dressed. Therefore, Michael, Patrick and I went to the fabric market today to buy hand-tailored suites. The suites and shirts will be finished on Wednesday. So, let’s see whether the quality of the clothes is as good as the many Chinese shop owners promised.

And we went to KFC today. Look how much Michael liked his…erhh…chicken drumsticks…:-)

2007-05-13 – KFC and Fabric Market