Good afternoon friends, foes, family and others!
Today was a wonderful day. We were not sardines on our way to work this morning. We did not have the "pleasure" of smelling our neighbors bodily odors or walk twice as far due to zig zag- patterning through the tumultuous crowds. The ""soft"" (two quotation marks, due to the ridiculous irony of the understated word "soft") opening is over and the Expo site is yet again deserted anticipating the upcoming explosive opening.
We decided after a very hard day's work (tasting gourmet food at our pavilions restaurant) to stroll through the Expo site and check out what was going on in different parts of the world. After hearing about others success stories about making contacts with employees from other pavilions and thereby gaining free entrance, we decided it was a great idea to try the same thing. So we attempted to make friends with, and gain entrance to the following pavilions: China, Hong Kong, Macao, Oman, Qatar, New Zealand, Indonesia, North Korea, Iran, Marocco, UAE and the very obvious merged pavillion of Bangladesh, Tajikistan, Mongolia, Maldives, Kyrgyzstan and Timor Leste. It was not a success. We are starting to think we may not be as cute and charming as we have been lead to believe by the photographing Chinese in the past few days. We did however manage to get ourselves a private tour of an unopened new German restaurant. Score 1 for Team T;)
Our our new life with paparazzi and constant media attention continued today. Ten of us lucky guides stayed behind after work to make a welcome promo for the Norwegian Pavilion, filmed by the Expo Bureau. This film will be aired all through China in the upcoming week. Watch out for us on CCTV. It will be a good laugh, as we sound like a robotic kindergarten class.
Over og ut knut,
T-squared,/T-bag and T-bone/the two Ts
aka Trine and Tori
p.s. The guides of the week, Esten and Forrest, were announced today. Congratulations to them! Tomorrow we will hopefully get to post an interview with these honorable laddies. Ladies get ready to swoon;);)
What? you didn't manage to make friends with the guides at the Macao pavillion? That's unacceptable. I suspect a friend of mine might be there actually
SvarSlettI know, it is truly terrible. You must hook me up with this friend you have as I obviously have no talent at making friends by myself. Hope you are well:)
SvarSlettTrine