Saturday in Shanghai

We don't have a schedule today, which is nice. And I think I'm finally over the jetlag, as I slept until about 8 this morning. We've had a great first week here. The weather has been awesome--in the mid-high 70s and low 80s mostly, which is definitely unseasonably cool for Shanghai this time of year. We've been able to walk through some of the neighborhoods similar to those we'll be conducting interviews in, and have also met some of the people from the Shanghai academy we'll be working with. Two nights ago we crossed the Huangpu River to Pudong, which was farmland until the 1990s, when it was developed and made into an important financial and industry base. We ate at an excellent Korean restaurant there, and then wandered through Century Park. The next morning, one of the Academy people took us to a residential area right outside the campus. Fascinating.