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My weekends have begun to fill up with activities again, even though the weather remains at a chilly 40F. More and more USAPers are returning to Shanghai, realizing there is no where else they would rather be. Yesterday, I started my day at Mr. Pancake House with some USAP ladies, welcoming Jane back to Shanghai, Kat to her new job at Groupon, and sympathizing with us who want to quit our day jobs. For a mere 28RMB, you can get a stack of 3 pancakes smothered in chocolate. Good deal? I think yes and it's a perfect way to drain your work week sorrows.
After spending some time at the gallery, Steph and I moseyed around French Concession, as we typically do, but I finally made the decision to get a haircut. After reading an article in Time Out Shanghai about the best (and cheaper) salons in Shanghai, I went to Hair Consultant on DongHu lu. After a hair wash with a deep scalp massage, a 10 minute cut, some blow-drying and 80RMB later, I left ecstatic about my new cut. I told the stylist to keep it long and cut away all the split ends, and this she did. Bravo Hair Consultant for not making my hair lopsided like a certain New York stylist (cough)! You will be seeing me in about six months for the same cut!
The night ensued with Steph's friend's 25th birthday house party. Enough said.
Today the highlight of my day was dancing with Matt from "Where the hell is Matt?" I had seen my friends post about him being in China on Facebook, but didn't think twice about it until my friend Gavin messaged me asking if I was going to dance with Matt. It seems the "bad dancer" who danced his way around the world was in Shanghai continuing his dancing craze! I put on my hot pink pants (hopefully to be easily spotted in the film) and headed towards the Shanghai Science and Tech Museum. It seems that we weren't the only ones crazy about dancing. Over 100 people showed up from ages 2 to 90 (yes, an old Chinese man in his wheelchair) were ready to dance with Matt.
Lucky for us USAPers we got a special dance by ourselves with him.
Lucky for us USAPers we got a special dance by ourselves with him.
I also went to the Karl Lagerfeld exhibit at the Bund 18 Gallery, where all the photos taken were being sold for 28,000RMB+ and they're not even from Lagerfeld's own collection. Eep...
Now that the weekend's over, I have to go back to the ol' 9-6 tomorrow. Here is an update for said job. I'm still looking for something else I am interested in, and while I contemplated quitting on Friday, my bosses stated that I have passed my probation period and will become a permanent employee come March... uh oh. I hope to hear some better news this coming week about... Well, I will let you know.
However, I have begun another project on a volunteer basis. Another Smith alum, and a friend of mine, requested that I assist in building the foundation of a new all women's liberal arts college in Asia. How exciting! I'll be working on a market survey with a researcher in Shanghai for the next couple of months, and then reaching out to schools across Asia. I hope that something like this is much more fulfilling and rewarding than my desk job analyzing sales volume numbers. Well, if my day job won't make me happy, I'm just going to have to figure out how to be happy elsewhere.
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