China 18: Girls, and boys
weird food: a fish eyeball (hard and tasteless) and fish gills (too fishy)
DVD count: 52 dvd's (after an excursion with my host dad to the cheap place he knows where they have millions of DVD's old and new. I was even able to find Before Sunset/Sunrise. Each DVD: 65 cents)
So as school in China has progressed into routine, we've all been making friends with the Chinese students at Gao Xin High. For me, the experience has been fun though hasn't improved my Chinese much. Thanks to basketball I've been able to meet a good amount of boys, and they've invited me out on the weekends to play sports. I pretty much hang out with the same group and make all my rendez-vous through my friends Kobe and Jimbo, whom I named. As for Ian and Isaiah, they also have a lot of friends but of a slightly different kind since they choose not to play bball. They've been able to befriend boys and girls in their classrooms, and are also being invited out every weekend to do stuff other than sports.
However, our popularity has been trifled by the girls'. They've managed to have worked up quite the following of admirers, female and male. The girls they've met are no different than the guys me, ian, and Isaiah have met; they are simply interested in the foreigner. But the thing that is really attractive about the girls in our group is they are beautful, so both girls and boys are in awe of them. Because the standard of beauty is so surrounded by images of foreigners Celine, Sara, Lauren, and Edna are automatically put on a pedastal, and then being attractive girls they're raised even more. Christina, one might think might not have the advantage of automatic pedastal placement b/c she doesn't embody the typical foreigner, however Koreans are considered the ideal in Asian beauty now, so she actually does have that leg up too. The girls in our group are quite literally super models at Gao Xin High.
So it is with this in mind that trail of boys the girls have accrued has become a constant topic of discussion. It all really started with my friend Jimbo who is my deskmate. He was probably my first friend at Gao Xin, and as I was trying to get as many friends as possible I decided upon Jimbo's request to give him Celine's cell phone number. The next few days sucked because Jimbo, who had been text messaging me, decided he'd rather be Celine's friend than mine. I was used.
Celine was later asked out by Jimbo, and he was sadly turned down, but I'm happy to say he's my friend again.
Since then every girl in our group has collected a club of admirers. Lauren was and is being walked to school everyday by a Chinese boy we affectionately named Peter Rabbit. Sara officially has a shadow named Justin who is at her side whenever I see her. A boy named Boat for his unusually pointy shoulders (like the two ends of a boat) has given Celine two of his pictures and some text messages. An admirer of Christina has gotten so jealous that anyone who talks to Christina is immediately reprimanded and instructed that only he is allowed to talk to Christina. Edna, who has been deemed "exotic" many times since we've arrived, has a very shy guy that always sits at the table next to her if he gets the chance; we call him "Blue Glass" for his very cool blue glasses. Lauren also has a admirer from the bball courts. We call him "Bags" b/c he wears his jeans baggy. I could keep going but it's a long list.
As for us, the guys, Ian has one girl who is constantly inviting him places, but other than that the girls are pretty much scared of us. I've tried talking to many girls but they aren't very welcoming. C'est la vie, non?
posted by dAVID @ 4:33 AM
0 Comments:
Post a Comment
<< Home