Today was a looong day full of training, and rain and really uncomfortable shoes. We opened the U.S pavilion today to a small group of only(yeah right)200,000 Chinese people. Which seems like it would be great fun, which it
was a bit, saying 你好 and 谢谢来过没过关 a million times to smiling Chinese people and they're cherubic babies....except when it wasn't fun at all and they started pushing and yelling about the long lines and demanding to know why we weren't opening the whole pavilion and then an 80 year old Chinese grandma cursed you out...in three different dialects. Or when the bus stopped working ( NOTHING is reliable in China) and we had to walk back in the rain 3 miles.
Anyways! Let's see, on the flip side, I went out to another club last night full of more movie star people. One of my ambassador friends called the club scene "conspicuous consumption" as in, Chinese clubbing is all about looking the part, drinking the top shelf vodka, name brand plastered where all can see, chain smoking cigarettes, tossing your expensive haircut as you lounge in the pink cushions that light up somehow with a girl in a white and black striped dress perched on your arm looking disdainfully down at the rabble around you both, and then one more long drag on you're Chinese clove that is rotting your lungs but it's worth it because you just.look.so.cool.
But I love the clubs. Lord, there was this one part where a girl ( or guy? you can never tell in the
clubbb) did this thing to loud music where she danced and "played" a keyboard ( that looked like a guitar?) and it shot out sparking fireworks from the end. And. it.got.on.me. not kidding! It freakin burned me and left black char on my arm! Which was freaking awesome! Really kinda added to the whole experience, like yeahh dance to this
musicc, shortie call 91- what the heck! That girl's got fireworks!! THey're everywhere!! Look how pretty they are, fireworks inside, who woulda thoug- Holy F@#$ I'm on F@#$ing fire!!!( and then I'm screaming and swatting my arm like a crazy person) urhmm. Yeah, embarrassingly enough, that's kinda how it went down.
Ok. too tired to breathe. must go to bed. night.