Beijing Black Rabbit Festival (2 weeks!)

Black Rabbit Festival!

Wauw! <3

Today was a b-e-a-utiful day in Beijing. That is extremely unusual here. The sky was blue instead of a grey, polluted shade of cloud and the sun was shining. Damn I miss unpolluted air... Anyway, it was a perfect day for the Beijing Black Rabbit festival. There are rumours that the Chinese government can control weather a bit by making it rain before great events with certain chemicals so that the air is cleared. Personally I don't think that this particular event was important enough, but oh well.

Beautiful sunset too =)

The festival was amazing. I loved Yellowcard, had crazy fun dancing to Ludacris with my more Latino friends and even went to listen to Chinese rap... Not to forget, obviously, 30 Seconds to Mars. Here are some short clips for those who care =).  Note: Chinese people are even more boring than Dutch people.

South Americans FTW!

 They don't dance at all if they can help it! Luckily I've got my South American and Italian friends... 
I won't bother you here with my opinions of the music, but it was highly entertaining that for example the lead singer from Yellowcard said that he was not allowed to use 'bad words' (I guess the theory is that there are younger children that should not be confronted with these terms because later on Ludacris and the Chinese rapper just said whatever the hell they wanted.

Guy from 30 seconds to Mars

Then again, the children are Chinese and therefore probably did not understand a word the Yellowcard guy was saying anyway. Hmmm... what logic?). And later on, the lead singer guy from 30 seconds to Mars announced that for a certain song he would have liked to invite people on the stage
'we can't do that here in China' (which was followed by angry shouts of &%#* China, since there were many foreigners, which was then followed by some guy walking up the stage and telling the singer *something*). All in all, very dodgy. It just shows, I guess, that however normal life in China seems, there is always a shadow, an invisible hand you could call it, affecting people's business. I haven't quite made up my mind how I feel about that- I mean, life here is also incredibly safe.

To finish: I'll call these cases Chino-Western Confusions (CWC): On friday we were taught the names of body parts (such as face, nose) and ways of describing their size and shape. I immediately asked our Chinese teacher what the colours were called, but she told me we would learn that later. She then asked the Dutch guy in my class to describe his mother. He had not heard my question, so he started by saying: my mother has long hair... how do you say brown? So I told the teacher that if we were to describe a person, we would never think about the size of the bridge of their nose (it's considered beautiful if this is wide xD) but we would start by describing their hair colour and eye colour. 'Really? Eye colour!?'

(Chinese rap! xD)

(Ludacris)