OK, it has been a very boring couple of weeks. Stayed at home doing work and building a data base for all the DVD’s I’ve bought. I have 90 movies, plus another 20 in Chinese for Lin, and a 54 DVD box set of the MASH series. I have created a relational database, with titles (year, genre, rating, DVD 5 or 9, Oscar nominations and wins), directors (name, Oscars), actors (name, DOB, death and Oscars) . The geek in me has reared its ugly head once again.
I have been invited to a special dinner (with 7 other professors) in Fuzhou with the “Premier” of the province. The dinner is on December 30, and it is to thank all the visiting “experts”, the term for foreigners who are here working. Fuzhou is the capitol of the province of Fujian, and is about 300 km from here.
Last night (Saturday) there was a party to welcome the freshmen to Navigation College. I was asked to attend as a new faculty, then I was asked to perform as a musician. Then I was asked to be part of a skit.
The evening consisted of 15 skits, musical acts and a few games. One of the games has everyone walking in a circle, then the MC calling out a number (3,4,5 etc) people then have to form tight hugging groups of that many people. The odd ones have to sit out. Game goes on until there is a winner (or three)
My song was slotted number 6, and the skit number 7. I decided to play something they could sing to, so I played the ABC song first. I then played “Me and Julio” but messed up the last chorus. Not playing much the last ten years as made me think while playing. Not a good thing.
The skit started with Julia on stage selling clothes. She puts up a sign which says PINK is the fashion colour. Linda comes on stage, and sees the sign. She is not wearing the latest fashion, so buys all the pink and leaves the stage. Julia, out of pink, now changes the sign to BROWN as the fashion colour.
I then come on the stage, and Julia takes me to the sign, and shows me the brown clothes. I take the clothes and start to leave. She stops me, and wants me to pay. She holds out money in her hand, so I take the money too. ( I actually did this to some street peddlers). Finally I pay for the clothes, and leave the stage. Julia, now out of brown clothes, changes the sign again.
Linda returns to the stage wearing a pink dress, and all proud. I return to the stage wearing a brown dress (bare shoulders, hairy legs) all proud (YES, everyone was laughing). We see each other, point and laugh because we think the other is not wearing the newest fashion. Then we see the new sign. We chase Julia around the stage. The end. The rest of the night was nice, and there was a dance afterwards. I got home around 11 pm.
Seeing a fat, old bald white guy proudly wearing a dress, with hairy back and legs, may affect all future Chinese - Canadian relations. Pictures will be posted as soon as I get some. I am sure there were many
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