White Power!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

“Can you imagine dropping acid in China? You'd be like: whoaaaa, why is everyone so small? And Asian?” –our American friend: Jon

There are four million Chinese people in our city and 10 foreigners. So, every time we see a white person (or anyone that's not Chinese) – we freak out!!!! And so do Chinese people!

Being white is awesome in China. We're basically rock stars. People are always yelling “HALLO!” at us and taking pictures of us on their camera phones. Chinese people just think that whities are super cool (as they should). So naturally businesses love to use white people for their advertisements. Almost every restaurant, clothing store, training school (ours included) or shopping mall uses photos of white people eating their food/trying on their clothes/attending their classes as advertising. The photos are pretty much always fake or stolen. For example, there's a Spa next to our school that has a billboard with Clive Owen on it. And I once saw Brad Pitt's photo advertising a Chinese restaurant (Duh – don't they know that Brad is a vegetarian?!). AND, we saw an ad for hookers that used photos of Brittany Spears! Even Josh's photo is being used to advertise an Optometry Clinic!

This kind of stuff happens all the time – like one time, a Chinese lady asked Brandon/Josh/Nelly/me if we'd come to a “ceramics fair” to pretend that we were customers. She said that she'd pay us 300 rmb each ($43.) to pretend that we were interested in buying sinks, showers and toilets to import to America. Of course we agreed. By white people being there, it apparently made other customers more interested in purchasing the products. It was so awesome because while we were touring these stores, we got free food and as much wine as we wanted!!! YEAH! White Pow!