Sunday night for my birthday we started out going to this bar in the middle of People’s Square called Barbarossa. It is a really trendy middle-eastern themed bar that our teacher really likes so he took us there and opened a tab for us (yes, our professor opened a tab for a bunch of college kids). We were out on the rooftop overlooking the beautiful scenery – People’s Square is sort of like the Central Park of Shanghai and we were at this place nestled in the middle that is hard to find if you don’t know about it, kind of like Tavern on the Green. We stayed there for a little bit and then moved to the French Concession bar district. Of course, we stopped at McDonald’s on the way because we never ended up eating dinner at Barbarossa.
The first place we went to was called O’Malleys and it was like a sports bar and had a giant screen set up outside that you could watch on 2 levels of outdoor seating that had the French Open playing. The bar was full of Europeans watching the match very intensely and I liked being able to watch as well. The screen was definitely the biggest thing I’ve ever seen at a bar for watching sports – no bad seats in the house. We had a few drinks at that bar and left after the second set of the match to move to a new bar called Zapatas. This was really fun and had an outdoor bar with chill seating areas and then the inside had another bar, was blasting music and had 3 levels of dance party. The music selection was great: ranging from Sweet Child of Mine to Shake Yo’ Tail Feathers (never thought I would hear that old school Nelly jam in China). It was a really fun birthday and I’m so glad I got to celebrate with everyone here in China.
Yesterday was the Dragon Boat Festival which is a national holiday so everyone had a 3-day weekend (another reason why my birthday was a great party night). We had the day off from activities because no companies have work or anything. From what I gather, the holiday is more like American Memorial Day where nothing that exciting really happens but everyone has the day off. Supposedly there are these dragon boat races on lakes and our teacher had planned for us to take a train out to a really cool lake to watch but it turned out that it rained constantly all day so we cancelled our excursion. Not sure if the races still went on but we didn’t make the trip. We just had the whole day free and so I slept in and then we went walking around and exploring a little bit but just relaxed for most of the day which was definitely a much needed break. I had some quality lunch at a new place I haven’t tried yet – Burger King! (It was delish)
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