November 4:
I went to Big World with Abi, Cami, Emily, and Kate (it’s Friday, but we didn’t have to teach because the kids had tests). We had a lot of fun shopping together.
It rained hard all day today. It hasn’t rained that much since we’ve been here, which shocks me because I expected it to be so much wetter here. Weihai looks very different in the rain—it’s an attractive change.
On the bus ride home, we chatted with a Chinese woman who knew broken English. She told us that her favorite English song is My Heart Will Go On by Celine Dion, and she asked us if we would sing it for her. Emily had the song on her iPod, so we Americans belted it out right there on the public bus—the crowded bus, I should mention. Our audience stared at us, curious, bewildered, and delighted. After Celine Dion, we decided to get our Biebs on, so we turned on Justin Bieber’s Baby and sang to our hearts’ content. Baby is easily one of the most popular American songs in China, and we noticed the recognition on our audiences’ faces.
For those of you unfamiliar with this song, Ludacris, a famous rapper, has a solo during the middle of the song. Cami and Emily rapped along with him, horrifying old Chinese women. Apparently, like American old people, Chinese old people don’t appreciate rap music.
I am now a street/bus performer in China. Awesome, right? I love entertaining the Chinese with my American ways—and because I am American, I can pull off being completely absurd in public, because the locals are going to stare, anyway.
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