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May 13, 2008
Steven, Lenny, and Banana
After an awful dinner last night, we invited two of the students from Tsinghua University to come back with us and go to out to the club. Steven’s friend had no English name yet and our group of eight named him Lenny. It’s pretty cool to give someone a name – it’s like naming a baby, without having to keep it (although Chinese babies are pretty cute, I’d like one).
On the way back from dinner, we stopped at a huge grocery store where we picked up some “supplies” for the evening. At about 10:15, we started pregaming in Tarun and Cory’s room. It was so funny to watch Steven and Lenny sip on beer and this weird hard drink we made. After about an hour of this, we decided to head out to Banana – supposedly one of the better clubs in Beijing.
When we got three cabs, two of the cabs knew where to go and the other one (the one I was in) only kind knew where to go. Nevertheless, when we got to the club, we were missing eight members of our group! We freaked out, and it turns out there is two “Banana” clubs in Beijing – CocoBanana and GTBanana. We were at the latter, while the rest were apparently at the former. About an hour after we got there, the res t of our group got there. Very relieving.
The club itself was pretty awesome. Crazy packed on a Monday, tons of Asians, fireworks, a spring loaded floor, and good music. When an American song came on (Sean Kingston – Take You There), only us knew the words and when the Asians noticed this, they cleared a circle around us while we danced. It was awesome. Got back at 3:00 to wake up at 7:30 for class. Good times.
Posted by brianhe at May 13, 2008 07:46 PM