Today is friday and I have 2 more lessons before I have to leg it to the metro station to catch a 13 hour train to Zhengzhou near the shaolin temple. It's hard sleeper so we leave today, sleep then arrive at about 7am. I'm really excited! It should be amazing.
There are 7 volunteers going so it should be good.

In other news, yesterday I went to the jing'an Temple. Which apparently was built around 1200 but it looks much newer than that. Either Monks are amazing at handy work or someone is lying. But it was good. One day you'll see pictures I'm sure.
The main adventure of yesterday... Actually scrap that, the two memorys of yesterday that linger on are 1. I had the first sandwich I've had in Shanghai. It was so good, even if it was from subway. They were proper rude though, they kept on talking about my choice of sandwich in front of me and then laughing. nice.
2. I arranged to meet with Albin in nanjing road, and as usual we were surrounded with people trying to speak english to one. This time however we gave in and allowed one of them to talk to us. After talking to him for a while, mostly about how rubbish the american accent is and how good the english accent is we found out that apparently he was a art student from beijing (I say apparently because you really really have to take everything with a pinch of salt here) and he was here because he had work at an art gallery. He then tried to get us to go to his gallery (which conveniantly was both the last day AND free of charge) and we followed him mostly because we had nothing better to do and it was free. As he was leading us into a bank, up a lift and to a room which looked like someone was living there I couldn't help feeling a bit nervous about this so called gallery but we had gone to far - we had to stick with it. As he open the door however I was quite pleasently suprised to actually see artwork! He even explained all the pieces and showed us the ones he had painted. Basically cut a long story short I ended up buying one of his paintings and so did Albin. The ones we bought were basically a pair so it seems good we bought them together even if they are going to go to different countrys. Someone at home is going to get a very nice hand painted gift so be nice to me and it might be you!

Anyway must go, got a train to catch!
Ben

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