Sunday, November 25, 2007

On the Friday that just passed I along with what seemed to be all the foreigners in Shezhen went to Ghuangzho, which is about two hours by bus away from Shezhen, to attend a Tourism Concert of some sort.  It was a very intersesting trip.  We were given a very nice dinner, that included eel and snake dishes, the snake just tasted a bit like fish I thought, I was a bit disappointed about the lack of "snakiness" taste.  Then after dinner we all went to the stadium to see the concert.  After about 45 minutes of chinese speeches from local government officials the show finally started...with floats advertising the different provinces and cities in China, which would have been helpful had the names not mostly been in Chinese.  After this there was an actual concert revolving around a story set in the chinese past where a hero undetakes a sea voyage to retrieve a lucky vase or mirror(it was kind of unclear on that part)  anyhoo each new part of the story was presented in song by what I can assume were at least fairly well known singers since they all got cheers when they came on stage and lots of dancers backing them up.  Overall I would give the whole perforance a 6.5 maybe, EXCEPT for one thing which made the whole thing worthwhile, one song was sung by a performer who I did know, even though I had not known he was a singer as well as an actor.  We got to see Jackie Chan sing live, and it was alot of fun.  Apparently he is the Tourism Ambassador for Ghuangdong, which is the province we are in.  Anyways, that was the whole point of this post, just letting peope know I saw Jackie Chan sing a song live in concert.  He was only on stage for perhaps 6 minutes but it made the whole trip and concert well woth the time and effort to get there and back.  Though the Chinese government did provide tickets, transportation there and back, and dinner gratis, which I thought was very nice of them so xie xie to them.

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