The last few days were a big blast! We have finally been introduced to the nightlife of Xiamen. Though none of the Chinese students ever experienced the clubs here we decided to do some teambuilding after our work day on Friday. The day started off a bit slow with a seminar at the University which was held in a high-tech meeting room with seats that normally are used in CEO offices. The seminar was about the cross cultural difference but in my opinion it wasn’t very informative. The obvious thing were pointed out, but it was okay. After the seminar the Dutch students hold a presentation on their life in the Netherlands. We were supposed to show how we live our life down in the Netherlands so the presentation ended up full of movies with beer, friends and parties. Not the image that our coaches had in mind. But hey, they had their change to censor it! (they removed images from naked butts and so on). The Chinese had a lot of fun though and the workflowwas a bit less strict now we knew more about each other.
I guess that is why some of the Chinese students agreed to come with us to play some basketball and drink a few beers. We played them and of course lost… I’m not supposed to get used to that but so far is seems like a regular thing. Back at the apartments we opened up the beers and wine and had a few laughter and we decided to leave for center because we had seen a club over there. Arrived there the Dutch took the lead due the fact that the Chinese students had no experience in clubbing at all. As soon as we arrived we were welcomed by six cute Chinese girl dressed in young school girls uniforms (guess Chinese business people are in to that, but hey you don’t hear me complain.) Inside there were tables everywhere and no real dance floor apart from two small stages. Naturally our group stumble towards the tables near to the podium and that is where we spend our night. We paid 600 yuan for two tables and 24 beers (We had to spend a minimum of 300 for every table) so that means we paid like 2.50 euro for every beer. Quite normal for us but really expensive for Chinese standards. I was lucky that night because there was a hiphop bikini party, so my favorite music was played all night! We had the time of our lives there and have been dancing all night, even the Chinese students danced with us on stage. Normally there is no dancing in that bar, Chinese people simple stand still and look around. But we decided not to adept and push our Western culture through the club. Which actually worked pretty well, we even managed to get the unknown Chinese to dance with us! Well I can keep telling how great it was but ill add a movie that should indicate our hard work flow. (EDIT: Crappy internet, looks like someone is downloading. Ill add the video later.)
The next day was slow, everybody was laying in bed with a huge hangover and I haven’t left my apartment until half pas five. We got together and had dinner at the local restaurant, the Chinese had agreed to meet us at the beach at night to redo the last night on a new beach party. This wasn’t a club but more like a huge restaurant down the beach were they created a dancing stage. After having a few drinks we decided to go down and dance. Well, of course no one was dancing so when the pop singer finished his last girly song we threw ourselves on the stage and started dancing. For some reason people do dance if Western people start. I get the idea that all the foreign students here are losing their shame (including me) because it doesn’t matter if we dance and act crazy… people will stare at us anyway! So after having a great time on the stage for a hour and a half we decided to go back to table and spend some time there. It is really fun to hear from the Chinese students that there are not used to dancing in clubs and bars but that they really like it. They are really having fun with us and that is very positive on the workflow. A few even mentioned that dancing on the stage was the craziest thing that they had ever done. (so learning from each otter has already started ;) )
Sunday started of slow as well. We had to sleep of the two days of hard work but I actually did some “home work”. I had to do a few things to the website for the deadline and that went pretty smooth. When I had finished my progress report, me and a few others decided to go to the “Carrefour” to get a few things. Well I bought a lot of new boxer shorts ( this time they were really boxer shorts!) and a lot of DVD’s! We found an official DVD store with the latest movies that weren’t released yet in Holland. We were so lucky and bought 6 DVDs immediately for the amazing price of 6 euro’s! But when we got back to the apartment it suddenly came clear why the DVDs were so cheap. Though they looked real with the great prints and official boxes, it were actually pirated movies recorded with a handycam. Big bummer there!! So we still have to go to the cinema every now and then to be updated on the latest movies. Downloading is really not an option here since the internet has an amazing speed of 20kbs. I really miss my fiber connection now. Tomorrow will be a new working day and we can finally start on the real website, that means we have to get serious once again :).
For now I say goodbye and will update the blog within 2 days. Thanks again for reading, I hoped you enjoyed my little Chinese adventure in the club. Which hopefully will be a regular thing! They Dutch have already decided on that but let’s hope the Chinese will join us again next time.
Huges and kisses,
Frenkie !
(Written on Sunday 05 September 2009 at 22:47 )
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