I have found a good place to take photos for passports or ID cards.
It’s a small booth in Eurostop, at the entrance to Coop supermarket.
The cost is 80kr written on the machine, but only 70kr on the picture you will finally get. That’s a bit confusing and let’s hope the one on the photo is right. 
The instructions are both in Swedish and English. Very handy.
Shanghai is a big city. By big, I don’t mean big like Stockholm or Göteborg, but seriously big! To take the subway from its one end to the other might take more than one hour (I have heard that they have extended some of this kind of long lines recently). The population in Shanghai alone is more than twice as much as that in the whole Sweden.
This is a picture in one of my presentation about China. It illustrates the comparison of density among Sweden, China and Shanghai the city alone.
When you look at the map in Google maps, it’s hard to tell where it is the best area to live. Well, you get some general idea by looking this one:
The map just shows the districts in city. There are quite a few other districts outside of the map.
The name of the districts are in blue. Most recommended districts to live are:
Well, I’m not saying that there are no good places in other districts. Sure there are. The thing is it might be more convenient to aim at the recommended solution first if one does not know the city so well. Besides, since the city is big, it can be expensive to take a taxi home at night after party if you live too far away from the center where most bars are located. And believe me, you are going to party….a lot!
/Carmen
In March, our department SET will have two exchange courses with SISU university in Shanghai which I am going to attend. Having lived in Shanghai for four years. I know the city quite well.
I’m going to blog a little about living in Shanghai, and some tips of accommodation and transportation and hopefully it will be helpful to people who have plan to travel there.
Please leave a comment or a request about what you would like to know, and I will no doubt pour out whatever I know.
/Carmen
Just came back from work in the Chinese restaurant House Ming. They needed extra personnel tonight.
There are fireworks everywhere in the city right now.
Happy new year, Halmstad! Happy new year, everyone at the European time zone! (People in China have already entered the new year and people in America will need to wait for another 6-7 hours. 
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Wish you all the best! Hug!
/Carmen
