Four days to go, a lull before frantic last-minute activities... so I went somewhere new. It's the vast campus of an international boarding school in a still semi-rural part of Pudong which one of my friends has been hired to direct. Or perhaps resurrect. A picturesque dump now, by the
time I next visit Shanghai (or maybe the visit after that) it may have become, as planned, host to 6000 Chinese students, from primary school through college prep, doing English A-Levels, American APs and the International Baccalaureate. "If you ever want a job back in China..."
