Waiting to get into China

So we are waiting for customs to clear the ship, it is taking forever.They have to give us thermal scans and everything. So while waiting, I decided to update my blog on the past few hectic days.

First off, I don't know if I mentioned this in my previous post but Japan has really inspired to learn a third language after I become fluent in Spanish. I am thinking either Japanese or Chinese, not sure yet. I also saw a bridge that is the picture of one of my engineering books, I got really excited, being the only engineer in my group I travel with I think I was the only excited one.

We only got 2 days between Japan and China and I am exhausted! I really need to catch up on sleep! I thought I would be able to between the two ports but as soon as I got back on the ship I had to read 50 pages in my book, write a paper, and at the same time film and edit the news, and editing is an extremely long process! All of this while lack of sleep from Japan.

This whole news thing has a pretty steep learning curve I am quickly finding out. There were allot of mistakes with last nights newscast, but I think this newscast being such an amateur newscast is part of the charm and is why so many people on the ship get excited to see it on the ship (and also everyone feels detached from what is going around us since we don't have internet.) This was only the second thing I have ever edited, and I learned how to edit while on this ship, so I think it is excusable that I made so many mistakes. I am learning from my mistakes and I already have in my head what I want to do for the next newscast to make it much better.

Anyways that is all for my update. We are in Shanghai parked in the downtown area on the ship, from the looks of it the downtown looks amazing! Our ship is on the river. I just am so anxious to get off the ship and see the city. Customs needs to clear us fast!