Shanghai

En forfaerdelig by. Snydt 2 gange igaar. Foerst af en skopudser, som bare smurte skocreme paa min ene sko, saa jeg var noedt til at faa dem pudset og forlangte saa 100 Yen = ca. 75 kroner. Hun fik nu kun 40 Yen, fordi der stod nogen og saa paa ellers havde hun faaet et skub. Anden snydepels var en "venlig" kineser, som sagde at han var kunstlaerer og ville vise mig galleriet, som udstillede i kajen. Jeg sagde paent maaske senere, men selvfoelgelig var det sidste dag og det var lige ved at lukke, men da det var gratis, saa taenkte jeg ok. Han ville selvfoelige saelge noget, men nej tak jeg var ikke lige til den slags billeder. Naa men saa kunne vi maaske drikke lidt te sammen - og hvorfor ikke, hvorefter han foerte mig til et tehus, som selvfoelgelig solgte te til en horribel pris. Jeg spurgte om han kendte dem i tehuset, men nej det gjorde han selvfoelgelig ikke, og selvom jeg viste, at jeg blev snydt, saa foelte jeg mig presset til at koebe en daase te, som jeg betalte 200 Yen for = ca. kr. 150. Det er simpelthen et forfaerdelig folkefaerd, men der er jo ogsaa saa mange, og de skal alle overleve.

Da jeg ankom for 2 dage siden vaeltede regnen ned og det var koldt - en voldsom omvaeltning fra Hong Kong. Igaar det det dog toervejr men det begyndte at storme sidst paa dagen. Idag har det vaeret fint og varmt hele dagen, men det er en meget anderledes verden, og saa taler de saa at sige ikke engelsk, og dem som goer, er saa daarlige, at de ikke er til at forstaa.

One terrible town. Cheated twice yesterday. First by a shoe cleaner, who just smeared shoe shine grease on one of my shoes, so I had to have them cleaned and then she demanded 100 Yen = pound 10. She only got 40 Yen because there were people around otherwise I would have pushed her. The other cheater was a "friendly" chineese guy, who said he was a teacher of art and wanted me to see the gallery on the pier. I said nicely maybe later, but of course it was the last day and the gallery was about to close, but as it was free I thought ok. He did want to sell of course, but no thank you I did not fancy that kind of pictures. Well then he suggested that we could drink tea together - and why not, after which he lead me to a tea house, which of course was selling tea at horrible prices. I asked him if he knew the people in the tea house, but of course he did not, and even I knew that I was being cheated, I felt forced to buy a can of tea, which costed me 200 Yen = about pound 20. They are simply terrible those chineese people, but there are also so many and they all got to survieve.

When I arrived 2 days ago the rain was pouring down and it was cold - quite different from Hong Kong. Yesterday it did not rain, but a storm was coming up in the afternoon. Today however the weather has been nice and warm all day, but it is quite a different world and they hardly speak any English and the people who do are almost impossible to understand.