R.A.T. Your Rodent Around-the-World Traveler (a.k.a. Raz)

Hi, My name is R.A.T., which stands for Rodent Around-the-World Traveler (I like to think it stands for Rodent Adventure Traveler), but everyone here calls me Raz for short. I would love to share my adventures with you. I left my rat family in early January to seek adventure. Everyone said "head west young rat," so that is what I did. I headed west to San Diego, California where I ran out of land and had to hop on a ship to continue my journey. It turns out that the ship I found was going west around the world--a dream come true! The MV Explorer is home to the famous Semester at Sea study abroad program. My shipmates include 629 college students and about 150 faculty, staff, lifelong learners, and family members. Things are really busy here on the ship and even busier when we are in port. Come follow me vicariously as I take this incredible journey. Yours, R.A.T.

P.S. I had such a great time on the voyage that the adventure continues!!!!



Tuesday, February 3, 2015

China - Beijing & Shanghai

Here I am at the Forbidden City! It's huge!
Here I am in Beijing with one of the students on the ship. They were a lot of fun!

Walking the wall--the Great Wall that is!




Our next stop was Shanghai. Across the river from the ship in the area they call Pudong were lots of tall skyscrapers!

When you are up close to them they really do seem to scrape the sky. Boy do I feel small!


At the top of the World Financial Center. Now I feel really, really, tall!


After we descended from the top of the skyscraper we found cows waiting for us.
This cow gave me a ride (along with his little blue friends).
There were also a lot of big blue guys all over Shanghai. His name is Haibao and welcomed people from all over the world to China in 2010 for the World Exp. He was very friendly!

Here he is again.

We then visited the Chinese Pavilion from Expo 2010. It is now an art museum.

Here's another view of the massive building.
I also found these friends as well. Here is Mr. Bull.

And here is Mr. Bear.



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