{"id":3139,"date":"2015-11-03T12:02:02","date_gmt":"2015-11-03T12:02:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/social.rollins.edu\/wpsites\/letters\/?p=3139"},"modified":"2020-02-05T13:25:39","modified_gmt":"2020-02-05T18:25:39","slug":"a-birds-eye-view-of-shanghai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/2015\/11\/03\/a-birds-eye-view-of-shanghai\/","title":{"rendered":"A Bird’s-eye View of Shanghai"},"content":{"rendered":"

During orientation in August,\u00a0the Shanghai Alliance program we’re studying\u00a0through\u00a0gave us a “Must-See, Must-Do” list for Shanghai to\u00a0give us ideas\u00a0and help us make the most of our stay in this\u00a0ginormous city.\u00a0Even though it’s so large, whenever you web image search the term “Shanghai,” most pictures that fill the page are of\u00a0The\u00a0Bund and\u00a0the city’s icon:\u00a0the Oriental Pearl TV Tower<\/span><\/u><\/a>. Needless to say, going up to the Pearl Tower was on Alliance’s “To-Do”\u00a0list, so I went with some friends to see a bird’s-eye view of Shanghai. There were tours available but\u00a0we\u00a0rarely enjoy being in a large tour group more than self-guiding. I didn’t know before entering, but the Pearl Tower actually holds a wide variety of attractions and businesses, including a\u00a0museum, a roller coaster, an arcade, restaurants,\u00a0a shopping center and\u00a0a panoramic video tour of Shanghai. The most surprising and amusing find is that the tower actually has a space theme (shout out to\u00a0Katie\u00a0M. and her astronaut dreams)!\u00a0For instance, on the top floor we were given elastic “shoe socks,” which looked\u00a0like large socks but also covered your shoes. I still assume were only for aesthetics. It was quite the quandry.\u00a0I would advise not going to the Pearl Tower in heels or else you might fall down\u00a0in the already-slippery shoe socks like I almost\u00a0did. The view itself was both awe-some and\u00a0enlightening; we were there on a fairly clear day, but the infamous China smog still\u00a0obviously blanketed the city. Most of the viewing\u00a0floors\u00a0themselves functioned like lighthouses, where you walk\u00a0on the outside ring of windows while there are one or two doors to enter the building’s core. A few times my friends and I would get separated and just go in circles until one of us caught up with the other. We took plenty of photographs and tried to locate places we knew in the distance. My favorite floor was one where the floor itself was glass, making it look like you are floating in the air. To take good pictures\u00a0we had to be very\u00a0quick and grab a floor “square” when someone else left. It was interesting and I’m very glad I went to see what modern\u00a0Shanghai looks like. I will put it on my own “Must-See, Must Do” recommendation list!”<\/p>\n

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During orientation in August,\u00a0the Shanghai Alliance program we’re studying\u00a0through\u00a0gave us a “Must-See, Must-Do” list for Shanghai to\u00a0give us ideas\u00a0and help us make the most of our stay in this\u00a0ginormous city.\u00a0Even though it’s so large, whenever you web image search the term “Shanghai,” most pictures that fill the page are of\u00a0The\u00a0Bund and\u00a0the city’s icon:\u00a0the Oriental Pearl…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":245,"featured_media":3143,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[82,113,238,262,296,298],"class_list":["post-3139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-shanghai","tag-architecture","tag-china","tag-modern","tag-pearl-tower","tag-shanghai","tag-sightseeing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3139","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/245"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3139"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3139\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19740,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3139\/revisions\/19740"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}