I find myself in China again for a sourcing trip. I haven't been here since early 2011 and I had forgotten how much the change in time zone screws with you. I woke up at 3:30 AM yesterday to catch my flight out of Charlotte. I arrived here in Shanghai 22 hours later at 1:30 PM local time with maybe one hour of sleep on the 14 hour flight from Chicago.
I waited over an hour for my contact to pick me up at the airport and then an hour drive to the hotel -Sheraton Pudong - Shanghai. Two hours to settle in the room- I didn't sleep. Then dinner and walking to the street along the river where there were literally hundreds of thousands of people looking out over the river at the lights. The streets were so crowded with people it was difficult to walk and cars had trouble passing.
I went to sleep last night at about 10:00 PM or 10:00 AM EDT so that was about 29 hours without sleep.
I woke up this morning at 4:00 AM and couldn't sleep. I am assuming it is because my body thinks it is 4:00 PM. So I am running on about 7 hours of sleep in the last 35.
Anyway today is going to be fun as in tiring.
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