| | So after being in Korea for a little over a month, we went to Qingdao, China.
Here we are in front of the modern Wind of May sculpture in a place called May 4th Square. I didn't know it at the time, but this red circles-with-a-ball-inside sculpture is like the symbol of Qingdao and is even in the city's wikipedia article!
From wikipedia:
..1897 when the city was ceded to Germany (after Hong Kong fell under British control and Macau went to the Portuguese). The Germans soon turned Tsingtao into a strategically important port, basing their Pacific Squadron
there, allowing the fleet to conduct operations throughout the Far
East. The German Imperial government planned and built the first
streets and institutions of the city we see today, including the
world-famous Tsingtao Brewery.
The place is called the May 4th Square because of an incident after WWI when the Japanese took over Qingdao and China wanted it back (among other things).
What a sad, yet interesting history of foreign imperialists Qingdao and the rest of China has... I love wikipedia!
The guy in the red shirt is my mom's family's friend that was essentially part of her family when they were growing up. He took us to China. Thanks Mr. Kang!
The best part the whole trip to China was this one club we went to in Qingdao... everytime we went, we had such a blast and wanted to come back for more.
For the first 1.5 hours or so that the club was open (at around 9pm) it was open mic karaoke, and my brother David and I sang a ton of American and Korean songs... and though they probably couldn't understand a single word, the crowd LOVED US! We went all out - dancing and everything while singing and some people even went up to us while we were performing and gave us beer!
After the karaoke was over, it was time to dance!
And we showed the Chinese clubbers how Korean-Americans dance!
Here's my brother David next to one of the club's go-go girls... going crazy hahahaha
We got VIP treatment because Mr. Kang sorta knew the owner of the club.
David, Lulu (the club MC and singer), me dripping in sweat after dancing for 3 hours (siiaack!), the club owner, and Mr. Kang.
We went to this club THREE TIMES! After the third time, David traded contact info with Lulu and they exchanged a series of juicy FOBALICIOUS emails! Go ask him to show them to you!
We also went to a zoo in Qingdao because I wanted to see some pandas, but unfortunately they didn't have any. They had panda balloons, panda statues, panda posters in front of the zoo, but no real life pandas! They tricked us tourists!
Here's us in front of the alligator cage. In the picture, the alligator is to the right of Mr. Kang with its mouth open.
According to wikipedia, alligators are cousins to crocodiles and only live in China and America. Wow wow wow
China was fun.
Wo xiang ni! Wo ke yi suo yi dian zhong wen!
If you're Chinese I'm gonna practice my Mandarin with you. =)
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