Greetings from 668 Beijing Lu 24E/F Shanghai, Shanghai China! I'm neglecting my work right now by posting this, but I doubt any harm will come from it.
Every morning I get here by taking the line 1 metro from Hengshan Lu (road) to People's Square. It costs 3 yuan (the word for the bill not the currency which is RMB {renmin bing [the people's currency]}) which is about 40 cents. The subway is quite a spectacle. The train is completely packed with people, you literally have to shove your way in and hope your nose isn't caught in the automatic door. Somewhere along the way I stop at a little shop and get a Chinese pastry for 4 yuan, then a coffee (which, believe it or not, is kafei in Mandarin) for about 12. When I get to my office building, I have to wait in a long line for the elevator which of course is packed to the brim.
Working here is almost completely opposite of a normal American firm for an intern. The foreign architects main responsibility is design development. We have very little to do with the boring, non-creative CAD work. My first day I was given a building in a series on a larger site, and was told to design it. It is very excited but also daunting. Usually one would be eased into the design field, but this is somewhat all at once. I won't complain though.
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