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More Than Meets The Eye
IRA TITTLER
DUBAI— World Record-high buildings, ski pistes in
the desert and palm-shaped islands. This is just one
way of looking at Dubai: there is more to this crazy
city.
As a Hult student on rotation from San Francisco, for
6 weeks I explored Dubai like a local. I regularly went
to the beach to relax, indulged myself in the diversity
of in- and outdoor sports such as Bikram yoga, standup paddling and water skiing in between my course
electives.
What impressed me the most was how many people come out once the sun went goes down; the city
wakes up and the street life begins. People sit down
in the most comfortable cafes to smoke grape mint
shisha and drink moroccan tea. The only difference
to most big cities is the ultra cleanliness, the chic modernity... and the fact that most sites only developed
in the last 10 years.
The Hult rotation stay in Dubai changed my idea of
the city completely. It is not only about the world record ideas what most people think, it is rather about
building something impossible and believing in a vision that nobody else thought of before. Dubai is the
future.
There's an App for that!
JOH N K E L LY
SHANGHAI— China is a jolly place - full of laughter, excitement, cheap pijiu
(beer), even cheaper bijiu (don’t ask) and taxis. If the thought of putting your
life on the line just to get across town doesn’t sound appealing, stay away from
China. If you enjoy living on the edge and having adrenaline with a side of fear
for breakfast, read ahead.
For everyone in San Francisco’s reference, if you're outside San Francisco procuring transportation involves standing on a street corner, flailing your hands and
shouting like you belong in the Tenderloin, in the hopes that a brightly-colored
vehicle with a strange glowing light on top will pull over and pick you up. In
Shanghai, these aren’t just any vehicles. They’re the venerable and nearly indestructible VW Santana. And on a rainy weekend night, those little green lights on
top are worth more than all the gold in all the lands.
It’s 6pm on a Friday night. Location: 666 Fuzh ou Rd. It’s raining outside and the
students of Hult are getting ready to fight (think Gladiator minus the swords).
The prize? Making it home or to the bars for dinner & drinks. The adversary? The
population of Shanghai. The stakes? Being soaking wet on the streets of Shanghai with sketchy cell service and a complete inability to speak the native tongue.
Even in the most cosmopolitan of cities, if supply does not equal demand, shit’s
going down. Old ladies throwing elbows to push their way into someone else’s
cab, people literally in the middle of the road
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waving their hands, and, of course, the
omnipresent fear that the taxi’s meter will
be “broken” Thankfully, the beautiful minds
over at SmartShanghai are helping curb the
language barrier by offering an app that will
translate any location’s name and address into
mandarin along with the relevant cross-streets.
For those visiting China,this smartphone app is
an absolute must-have. It’s free and allows you
navigate around the city with relative ease.
As for finding an actual taxi, god be with you—
or just call an Uber. And regarding the rain,
no app exists for that little nuisance…yet.
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