The live in the EAST is going well, but fast! Today I’ve been here exactly three weeks. There happened a lot already, but still I feel like I just arrived and feel flooded by new experiences. It feels good, but I try to take it a bit slower and spend more time watching DVDs (I bought “Prison Break”, and must admit I'm already hooked), just to relax my body from all the action in this town. My weekend has been good and already had a full working day, today. I’m starting to feel my working is getting busier; there are really some concepts I want to finish quickly, so I’ll have some ‘material’ to work with. When you start with a blank sheet, like I’m doing here in China, you really have to put in a lot of energy to get things ‘moving’, but it’s very rewarding (if the movement starts!). We’re still negotiating about the spot in the office, so my days are spent at mostly alone. It’s ok for now …Last Thursday I went to the Creative Industry Week here in Shanghai, which was nice. Especially the Dutch corner, by far the best. There were not so many presentations so after about two hours you really saw everything there was to see there, but I got some name cards and the sense that the Creative Industry is also a hot topic in Shanghai. I was in good company of Michiel and Ad Fernhout (which some of you will remember for tv – Medisch Centrum West). Ad has a company now on Cross Cultural trainings, and he’s interested to go in business in China – so he was visiting to get a better picture of how to start here. He looked like he was enjoying it a lot, so I hope to welcome him here again soon.
My weekend was nice and filled with music. Friday was a quiet night, after a party on Thursday I didn’t feel like drinking again. So I was in my bed at around 23.00 o’clock (which for me is early – especially for a Friday night). Saturday I had my music group. All the practice of last week paid off and I could follow it a lot better than the week before. The teacher even made me a small compliment which I accepted with a smile. So keep on the good work and next to learn the Chinese language I will spend a lot of my free time to play the bass guitar. I’m motivated, on Sunday I was in the Jz School again to practice for the coming lesson.
Saturday before I went to my music class, I received and email from Bas Jan, an entrepreneur I know from New Venture. He was in Shanghai. That’s the third person I know from Holland that came to Shanghai. I’m very happy to meet all these people here. It’s very special to show them my “new” city – however, I hardly know the place myself – but that’s ok. I know it a lot better than they do, so that’s enough. We went to Jz Club (which is the number one Jazz-place in Shanghai). A lot of Dutch people were in 'tha club', including Marc van der Chijs and even the Consulate General Mr. Verwaal himself. What a coincidence! But we soon find out that it wasn’t a coincidence at all. There was a very “special guest” in the club and that was the reason for their presence, as they told us. And after waiting for about one hour the orchestra leader raised his voice and said: “Ladies and gentlemen, here is our very special guest …….. Mrs. Laura Fygi!!!!!”. A lot of applause and screams filled the room. Laura is a Dutch jazz-singer and very famous (I never heard of her before, but that doesn’t mean anything in this case). She sung very well, and Bas Jan being a music lover, was very happy. A great night in this town.
The "new kid in town" is quite sleepy now and will go to his bed. Tomorrow is another (working)day!
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