{"id":35464,"date":"2016-08-19T03:06:19","date_gmt":"2016-08-19T03:06:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/absoluteinternship.com\/blog\/anything-but-boring-2\/"},"modified":"2025-09-26T05:34:04","modified_gmt":"2025-09-26T05:34:04","slug":"anything-but-boring-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/absoluteinternship.com\/blog\/anything-but-boring-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Anything But Boring"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Coming from a sleepy, suburban town in the middle of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Texas\">Texas<\/a> where roughly 70,000 residents go to sleep by\u00a010 PM\u00a0each night, I was pretty amazed when I was thrown into Shanghai, a city where 24.35 million people reside and thrive. There were a couple differences that I noticed upon arriving, and after living in Shanghai for a few weeks:<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-11566\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn2.hubspot.net\/hubfs\/3850360\/Imported_Blog_Media\/Tiana2-1-300x225.jpeg\" alt=\"Interns in Shanghai\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/absoluteinternship.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Tiana2-1-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/absoluteinternship.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Tiana2-1-768x576.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/absoluteinternship.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Tiana2-1-700x525.jpeg 700w, https:\/\/absoluteinternship.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Tiana2-1.jpeg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>\u00a01.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0There is no such thing as \u201cRight of way\u201d here. Even when the pedestrian walkway light is green, heed caution as you cross the street because cars and buses of all sizes might be coming.<\/p>\n<p>2.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Without a doubt, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Shanghai\">Shanghai<\/a> is one of the most convenient places I\u2019ve ever been. Back home, where the only food places that open past\u00a09 PM\u00a0are iHop and McDonalds, it\u2019s difficult to find something to do or some place to eat after it gets dark. However, in Shanghai, it\u2019s quite the opposite; there\u2019s already tons to do during the daytime, but at night, events and food run plenty.<\/p>\n<p>3.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Back in the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/United_States\">United States<\/a>, the hygiene in public restrooms was not the greatest, depending on where you went. However, I knew I could count on them having toilet paper. If not toilet paper, at least an actual toilet bowl.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-11572\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn2.hubspot.net\/hubfs\/3850360\/Imported_Blog_Media\/Tiana2-1-kopio-225x300.jpeg\" alt=\"Intern at Yu Garden\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/absoluteinternship.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Tiana2-1-kopio-225x300.jpeg 225w, https:\/\/absoluteinternship.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Tiana2-1-kopio.jpeg 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><br \/>\nIn Shanghai, it is completely different. You get used to not having a toilet bowl with a seat. Instead, you can find a nice hole in the ground with footing. At many places you need to bring your own paper, but once in a blue moon, you might even find one with toilet paper provided.<\/p>\n<p>4.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Depending on where you go, food is cheap, and food is great! It\u2019s easy to get stuck in the same routine of ordering the same thing every night for dinner, but there\u2019s so much variety and so many cuisines and flavors to experience. You can get anything as cheap as a hot bowl of beef noodles for $3 USD, or anything up to standard American prices like a burger for $15 USD.<\/p>\n<p>One thing is for sure; I can use a bunch of different words to describe Shanghai based on what I\u2019ve experienced these past 6 weeks, but not one of those words is \u201cboring\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Coming from a sleepy, suburban town in the middle of Texas where roughly 70,000 residents go to sleep by\u00a010 PM\u00a0each night, I was pretty amazed when I was thrown into&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[736],"tags":[],"table_tags":[],"class_list":["post-35464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-shanghai-internships"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/absoluteinternship.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35464","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/absoluteinternship.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/absoluteinternship.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/absoluteinternship.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/absoluteinternship.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35464"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/absoluteinternship.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35464\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/absoluteinternship.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/absoluteinternship.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/absoluteinternship.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35464"},{"taxonomy":"table_tags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/absoluteinternship.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/table_tags?post=35464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}