With the first week of classes completely done, it is now time to travel into downtown Shanghai to experience the culture outside of SMU. The school planned a trip for all the International Students to visit several tourist attractions in downtown. We started of with the Shanghai World Financial Center which is one of the tallest buildings in the world, and holds the Guinness World Record for the Worlds Highest Observatory Deck in 2009. We were overlooking all of Shanghai while we stood on the 100th deck of the building and the only bad thing is that I am actually scared of heights. However the experience was incredible just seeing how small everyone and everything looked from so high up. From there we went and checked out a couple museums that were very interesting. We also walked around downtown just to take pictures of everything we saw and I believe I might of took over 100 photos.
Before we left the Shanghai World Financial Center a couple of us decided to take a professional picture where we pose for a picture and can choose the background. So Erin Eastman, Matthew Silvia, Mark Holmes, one of the Korean cadet's named Woody, and myself - it actually came out pretty good and was a little bit funny. Once the touring was over a bunch of cadets from MMA as well as a couple of cadets from SMU decided to stay in town for the night. Our SMU friends wanted to take us out and show us a night in China and experience the culture compared to the United States. It was a great time just hanging out with everyone since it felt like we have known each other for a long time however it has only been a week.
-2/c Eduardo Ramos
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