Chinese Fashion Shows

Tonight was the big night! We were so nervous about getting up in front of everyone and having them make fun of our American bodies, very different from Asian bodies. Last night we had rehearsal at the place where the fashion show was being held. That was so confusing, they added more to our routine and they were speaking Chinese 90 miles an hour. The lady teaching us knows some English, she just wasn't using it so we were confused, angry and frustrated. We just had to follow everyone around us and hope that we were doing it right. They didn't have the music on and they were counting, in Chinese, when we didn't go, they would yell at us! How were we suppose to know!? We don't speak Chinese! They kept saying, "hello teachers!" It was very annoying. We didn't know how tonight would go over. We had to meet them in the dance room here at the school at 6 tonight so they could do our hair and make up. They weren't going to do my hair because they just wanted it down natural, blond and curly. They love curly hair. So I go down in my dress with my hair done and no makeup on, thinking that they were going to do it like they said they would. Nope, we had to do our make up, Asians are very funny like that, they always change times and what they are doing, all of the time! It is so annoying! So we went back up all of our stairs, in our dresses, to get back to our apartment. We did our own make up, which was weird because I haven't worn make up for a very long time. Then we went back down stairs so they could do Mandy's hair. They pulled it back and I could tell Mandy was a little afraid, it turned out so cute though! They even put chopsticks in her hair! It was awesome! At 7 we practiced and by 7:30 we were off to the show. We made it just in time, we were 3rd in the line up. We did well! When we got on stage everyone in the audience started cheering and whistling, that's not like Asians, they are usually very quiet and emotionless. We strutted our American stuff and it was awesome!!! I thought we did really well. After we did our thing we went and sat in the audience. Asians think that posing in athletic gear with tennis rackets, basketballs and soccer balls is really cool, everyone did it! And they played the same song over and over and over. They also like dressing up as flight attendants, I know they probably don't mean to, I think they just want to look professional, but it looks very flight attendanty. It started at about 8 and we stayed until about 10, by the time we left they still had 15 numbers to go! We weren't going to stay for people posing in athletic gear that we already saw about 10 times! So we left. It was an awesome experience! It was very fun and they loved us! They really like our American bodies:)