The weekend practically flew by as I went out and played with my cousin! It was super super hot though! like 32 degrees celsius ( i don't know what that is farenheit but anything 30+ is hot in celsius) plus like 1000000% humidity. I sweated like I never sweated before. The worst thing is probably its that hot while its raining. Yup, monsoon season is back. Wonderful. Spent last night with relatives. My oldest Uncle on my mom's side treated us out at this place that served traditional shanghainese food. It was deliche. Dinner was a blur of me trying to catch up with all the conversations, half mandarin half shanghainese. It was great seeing family again as well as getting out of the house. 

So today was MUCH better. "First" day of work haha. It was good being back in the office again. Started on some research stuff and met up with the guy I'm working with a project on. He was super nice, so it was exciting talking to him and learning about his life and his experience at the DOC (Dept of Commerce). Then we(les interns) got our own business cards! Haha, I was so excited. Probably b/c I've never had business cards before. But we got a huge stack of them one side in chinese (with our chinese names) and the other side in english. It was pretty awesome. Everyone asked about my quarantine and had a good laugh about it. I was glad to finally make some new friends though! After work, I went out with 3 of the other interns to a bar for dinner and some drinks. Happy hour=good discounts! I think I'm finally getting used to drinking beer(although I don't prefer it, but I didn't want to get drunk in front of the others yet). I think the four of us will be hanging out a lot together just b/c we don't really know anyone else in shanghai. They've already hung out several times, and apparently had this wild night at a bar opening. Too bad I missed it in stupid quarantine ahah. Anyways, there's always next time. And it actually wasn't as awkward as I thought it would be, being the only girl among them. I think its definitely easier getting along with guy at first rather than girls. haha so I guess I'm glad that I'm the only girl:). Ok time to crash now, I slept super late last night and had to get up super early! I have to be by the office at 8:30am....8:30-5:30 work hours after all. *sigh*. 

P.S. I'll post pics of the food with relatives later...forgot my camera today so no pics of the workplace yet.