Without question, the most popular region of Shanghai’s sprawling 5 km² Expo 2010 (World’s Fair) is Zone C, home to the European pavilions, as well as the North and South American, African, and Caribbean pavilions (zone list available here). According to an email sent out on Sunday, and obtained by the staff of Shanghai Scrap shortly thereafter, it is also home to an ” invasion.”
Dear participant,
The pesticide for your pavilion use is provided with by Zone C Department now. Please go to the property company’s office (Lu Jia Zui Property Company) on the first floor (interlayer) of Central and South America Joint Pavilion to get one bottle of pesticide (1KG). The mosquito eradication in public area is now controlled by the organizer. We hope that the supply of pesticide will help your pavilion to get away from the invasion of mosquito and other insects in time.
If you have any confusion in finding the storage place, please inquire 136——-, Ms. C—–.
Best regards,
[Name and address removed by ed.]
For the record, I’ve spent as much time at this riverside Expo (complete with an extraordinary restored wetland that is, let’s face it, ideal for mosquito breeding) as anyone who doesn’t actually work down there, and I’ve yet to see any signs of the Swarm. That is to say, bring your repellent, but by all means still visit … and allow this memo to serve as a marker on Expo’s road from theme park into something, well, quite alive, I’d say.
some of the ground floor level kitchens in pavilions are having problems with roches and rats.
If you hate the Expo so much why don’t you just write about something else? POsting things that keep people away doesn’t help your blog get more traffic you know.
I am just back from Expo and got bitten around my ankles big time while standing in line at the Finland pavilion. Surrounded by stagnant water. The bites are the worst I have ever experienced. More itchy than anything you can imagine. They proceeded to develop into large blisters, some with blood in them. Made a mess of my two subsequent days of walking around. There is substantial still water around these pavilions.