OK, so here’s my ticket. Do have to admit I panicked at first. Not because it’s written in Chinese, but because Hongqiao and Hongzhou may look very different with English letters, but when spoken in Chinese, phonetically they don’t sound terribly different to an American ear. Hong-chow vs. Hong-joe. So when I saw Shanghai HongQiao I feared that I had said it wrong until I realized that was the name of the station I was at (dumbass would be an appropriate comment here). So then it was time to decipher the ticket and figure out what track, what time. 20 was the number with the largest font on the ticket, so I went with that for my gate. 15D? Guessing seat number – not sure what the 13 is next to it, so we’ll figure that out later. Not 9:56 yet, so that has to be my departure time…