#jinduyuan

[hsianghai]

Finals time! 再见，上海！

Just went to my last official class here at NYU Shanghai. I can't believe it's already time to leave... time passes so quickly! We're heading to our farewell event tomorrow at the Le Royal Meridien, where we'll be dining and toasting to a good semester with our Chinese professors and fellow students. 

I remember our orientation week like it was yesterday! 

To start off: One of the biggest things I'll miss here....

Jinduyuan - Golden City Garden (NYU Off-Campus Housing)

I'll miss the ahyi's that clean our room every other day, living in the same building as all of your friends, the view at 5 a.m. (see below), the actual living room where we can all sit and chat after dinner, the awesome kitchen that we never used, the laundry machine and dryer in every suite, individual single rooms, my bathroom.... 

Okay, so it sounds like we're pretty spoiled over here at NYU Shanghai. The living accommodations are fantastic, and I can't say I'm excited to move back to an NYU-New York dorm. Unfortunately, we're one of the last NYU Shanghai semesters to live here because the campus is moving to Pudong, across the Huangpu River. The new NYU campus isn't really located next to any of the shopping or touristy areas though, so that will definitely be a change - I think all of the students will be heading over here to Puxi a lot more than exploring Pudong. There are a lot more developments and office buildings over in Pudong, with the amount of space and land that they have there.   

kitchen :)

hey tiff!

dining room area

gorgeous sunrise at 5 a.m.... and the free tent/mosquito net area that we like to play in

定西路 has a lot of great restaurants and a CoCo's, an 85 Degree Bakery, some clothing shops, a McDonald's/Starbucks/Costa Coffee/Japanese food/Korean food... everything! We're getting a little tired of Chinese food here, so we've been heading to McDonald's more often then we'd like to mention (more time this semester than ever before during our three years at NYU...). 

Thank you, NYU Shanghai! I'll always have a very fond place for Shanghai in my heart. 再见！