Hello all!
Hanna, Elina, and I went to Tsinghua University early this morning to meet up with Zhujun and Candy (the project manager and member of the Sweden Day Committee last year). We put up our posters for Sweden Week, the Ericsson Case Competition, and the Volvo Lecture. Really nice posters, done by the two art directors in the Sweden Day Committee this year, Jessie and Yushan.
After putting up the posters and walking around in the Tsinghua campus, Hanna and I got two important tasks: to find material for our maypole and to find an inflatable bathing pool for our Waboba-balls (those that can bounce on water!). There weren’t any problems with the pool.
So we did some research about the maypole. I showed different carpenters a small model that I had brought from Sweden. They all looked very suspicious and sceptical. I was so close to tell them the purpose of the tradition and what the pole acutally symbolized. But I would most probably not be able to explain that so well in Chinese, so the risk would be that I gave them the wrong impression. Oh well, finally, the fifth one we talked to could do it cheap, stable, and in time – the three golden variables. So we’ll have a maypole on our Sweden Day!
One week left until the BIG event! Look forward to it!
Phrase of today: Jian Dao Ni, Wo Hen Gao Xing! (见到你，我很高兴!) –> I’m glad to meet you!
Ganbei!
/XYZ
