Shanghai

Shanghai is such a beautiful, civilized, interesting city. Here are a few shots of lunch at a restaurant yesterday.  I was going to add more, but my internet is too slow today.

Photography Class

Did I tell you I am taking a photography class?  I travel to Shanghai once every week to do this. The class is in English and is for expats (foreigners like me).  There are 13 women and 1 man in my class.  They are from Brazil, Argentina, Sweden, Australia, England, Korea, Malaysia and who knows where else.  It's kind of fun.  

The young gal on the right is the teacher.  She's professional, friendly, and entertaining.  Here she is explaining some photographic technique.  (We have a man teacher who comes sometimes too.  They do team teaching and switch off as needed.)

Here's a Korean classmate, Su.  

Smothered by Clouds

For a month we have had no sun.  Finally this morning I could see the sun's outline from behind a shroud of clouds, but it quickly went away, awaiting the fulfillment of another rainy forecast.  I feel claustrophobic, and the clouds are closing in on me.  I want to scream.

I watch CNN International, and in the weather forecast they show rain where I live, and they sound euphoric, saying that it will finally break China's drought.  They are so clueless.  The rain is not falling where the drought exists.  The rain is falling on soaked ground where it has been raining for months on end, almost all day every day.  I'm gonna start collecting animals and look up plans for building an ark.  I can't stand it.  The clouds must have heard this is a tourist destination and decided to take a month's vacation here.  I wish God would revoke their tourist visa.  Trust me, I've asked him.

I love the light.  Living in a shroud of darkness and clouds is the pits.