Ultimate

Day 15
Today was a pretty awesome day. As many as you know I am an avid ultimate player and was very excited to see that Shanghai does indeed at Ultimate. So today was the first of many times to come for ultimate in shanghai. I met up with a guy name Nads, who took me to the fields via Metro, which is in fact pretty crazy and very crowded. I met up with some other ultimate people who are all basically Caucasian. It was awesome and just cool to be playing in Shanghai and to be with people that can speak great English. I am out of shape. My right hip hurts, I had cramps in both my calves while running for a disc, I knocked people over, was sucking wind…but that’s ultimate and I love it.
My third and final apartment mate arrived around 10am, but I didn’t get to meet her until later in the day. Like Caitlin and I, Anna just slept for the better part of the day. Anna is from Spain and she just graduated from law school. Cool stuff. We went into Xuijiahui to buy her a phone so she could use a sim card, and it was really cool to kinda talk with the sellers. I didn’t really understand them that well, but I had a new confidence in myself because of the lessons and just that I’m way more comfortable here now. We all went to this restaurant called: Little Sheep. They’re specialty: Hot Pot. If you never have had hot pot, you need to find a place that has it and go. It is basically like a Japanese Hibachi, but also kinda not. There is a large bowl of broth that is cooking in the middle of the table. And you order different types of raw meat and vegetables. We got beef, duck, bok choy, pork dumplings and sweet potato. You drop items into the broth, let the stuff cook in the broth and then dig in! It is probably entirely very unsantitary, but that’s China! It was delicious, but also very hot. The price was also great. It came to a total of 165.5 Yuan…=$24.26 for three people. Talk about a deal and a meal.