Approaching Shanghai - Preparing to Meet The Crowds
Nomadic Gatherings by Michel Guntern
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Nomadic Gatherings: Chapter Five: China Travel - Approaching Shanghai.
Two hours away from Shanghai, the beds were tidied and the carriage swept. Share on Facebook
People packed their bags and stored away any remaining provisions, and the two girls coloured their faces; to the amusement of some of the wrinkled Mao survivors.
I no longer saw them as young sisters of mine, but adorable young women. We shook hands at the station, but I wanted to kiss them.
The old man would show me to the right bus for my hotel.
"Don't change money with the boys from the north," he warned. "They are bad boys."
"How can I tell north from south?"
"They have deep-set eyes. And noses!" Jenny explained.
"We may never see each other again," Li Tzu mourned.
"Probably not."
Jenny gave me her name and address in Chinese characters.
"I can't read or write that," I teased.
"But you can photocopy it," she pleaded.
I promised her at least a postcard from another land, and then we were lost in the crowd.
"Taxi, Taxi. You want hotel?"
The ticket-collector tried to keep the hawking crowds at bay. More waited behind metal barriers.
I followed my leader through the mayhem.
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