Sept – 11th – 2010
If the people of Shanghai ever needed an experience to validate their stereotypes of all Americans being “loud and obnoxious” we certainly validated that when we competed in Shanghai International Citizen version of “The Amazing Race.”
Just like the show “The Amazing Race” our goal was to make it from Point A, to some unknown destination as quickly as possible by piecing together clues and accomplishing missions in order to get the hint for where the next destination would be. We sprinted through Metro stations, ran up escalators the wrong way, asked strangers for directions in broken Mandarin, and foot raced to the finish… all in the rain!
According to the rules we were only allowed to use our feet or public forms of transportation (i.e. buses and metros). Also, because the entire race took about roughly two hours to complete by the time we were actually done we were all pretty wet but also pretty well affiliated with the area.
But anyways, as usual- I can show you much better than I can tell you. So check out the video below to find out how well my team did and where we finished…
**Disclaimer due to the intense nature of the competition the footage is EXTREMELY shaky. Haha, bear with me [superemotions file="icon_razz.gif" title="Razzberry"].
