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It is getting warmer and warmer. We can finally say goodbye to winter and enjoy spring (which came a bit late.. )

This will be my second and last entry about Shanghai winter 2008.
Note: More than 20 pics in this entry

It snowed for a few more days after my last update about snowing in Shanghai. In fact, we had about a week of snow here. Shanghai didn’t look the same. The first few days were great! I was in a wonderful mood each time I went out and saw everthing covered with snow but after 4 consecutive days like that, it started to get annoying and I kept wishing that it would stop snowing.

In fact, there was so much snow that I was able to make a snowman. My first ever snowman! Well I didn’t make it by myself. Desmond and I walked in front of the soccer field that day at around noon and saw this:

Snow-covered soccer field

Some people were already making snowmen. It looked fun! We decided to make one too but first, we hurried to the dorms and knocked on our friends’ doors to ask them to join us. Some of them were still sleeping so it was only at around 3 p.m that we started on our snowman. By then, the snow on the ground was already melting.

Working on our snowman
We used an empty plastic cup for the nose, orange peel for the mouth, leaves for the hair and the eyes,a branch,etc.

Desmond working on the snowman’s hand to add the V sign simply because euh.. we are in Shanghai. To those who are not familiar with it, I’ll just say that anyone who has been to China and who has Korean or Japanese friends do that V sign at least once when taking pics.

Laughing at our snowman.
The head looked so strange.

Two Chinese guys came while we were busy making the snowman and started taking pics of our chef-d’oeuvre (*cough*) and us. It felt so weird having strangers openly taking pics of us like that. The 2 guys stayed until we left the soccer field after we got tired from the snow fight and all. Desmond left his number and email address with the guys, asking them nicely if they could send us some of the pics that they took of us and one of them really sent us the pics.

Group pic with the snowman. See the v sign?
One of the Chinese guys took this pic for us.

~The soccer pose~
Free kick! Usha shoots!
Guys: We need to protect our private parts. Karina: I want to join too!
Check out the snowman goal-keeper and the tracks made by the snow ball that we rolled around to make the body of the snowman


Uh oh… the inevitable snow fight! Go Karina ,go!

Kailash, getting ready to throw a snowball at someone.

I got hit by Desmond’s snowballs and my hat covered my eyes.

Other pics taken on the streets or in Tongji:

View from Tongji International Students Building 1.

Photo of Tongji International Students Building 1.

That was on the first day. Desmond made a small snowman near the Tongji Miyun Road gate… and I had a pic taken with the snowman.

The snowman didn’t look very happy.

Someone made this on a car.

This snowman was made by Lingling who works at the reception in Tongji International Students Building 1. We had a pic taken with it.

On the dustbin in front of International Students Building 1

And two more pics that I took:

Near the Miyun Road Tongji gate.

I was wondering how the people who made this manage to make the head so round when I saw this.

A few more pics:

People who usually sweep the streets had to shovel the snow off the roads.

Like the girl in this pic, some people had to use plastic bags to cover their shoes because they didn’t want to ruin their shoes or get their shoes wet. I saw only a couple of people wearing snow boots. In Shanghai, we don’t usually need those kind of boots.

Bicycles were covered with snow.

Some people had car problems.

Desmond helped a stranger to get snow off his car.

A couple walking in the snow. They looked so sweet that I just had to take their pic.
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That was probably my last winter here in Shanghai. At least I’ll have great memories of it.