Last Saturday, I went to the European Chamber of Commerce Ball. Exquisite setting, but one of the first things that I noticed was how these types of functions don't change from after college. Still waiting in line to enter, still the pre-dinner where people just take pictures, still the dancing afterwards, and the awkward table chitchat, ect. (even a chocolate fountain!) It was quite enjoyable though. I haven't seen people in formal clothing in quite a while; everyone looked pretty nice. There was this one Pakistani lady who was wearing a really nice traditional dress; too bad when she had me guess her ethnicity, I went with Indian. Whoops. The entertainment was alright, with opera singers and aerial silk-ists. Fairly interesting, although some of the older people remarked that it was one of the more boring balls that they've been to.
Regardless, I was sitting next to a fellow German intern, who ended up winning the Grand Prize of the evening for the raffle (the head of our company bought tickets for everyone; I was off by the last digit T_T) which was an all-expense paid seven day trip to the best hotel and spa in Slovenia. Pretty lucky! Although sadly one of my first thoughts was that it would have been quite a hassle if I won it myself. We talked throughout the dinner, and during the downtime of all the older people talking with each other (everyone was about ten years older than us), someone hired by the party drew a sketch of people at the table, which prompted me to try it myself using a pilfered pen. At least I can still draw portraits better than that person! (unreasonable pride).
After that, the whole company went to dance, and I tried to remember my slow dancing, but totally forgot. I really need to remember how to do the basic steps/twirls for everything again... at some point. It ended up being like a normal dance without grinding. Pretty tame. It was especially funny to see my boss dance; he was so enthusiastic, and his wife was so timid and looked so... bashful while she watched him slide and shimmy and whatnot. Pretty funny. The music was quite eclectic, from Mamma mia! soundtracks to funk to electronica to Sinatra. I guess when you have such a wide range of ages you really do have to play a little bit of everything.
Other than that, I've had my first sickness in China, and my first day sick from work. I was the last person in my little cubicle square to fall sick, although they most definitely passed it to me. Too bad, I was gonna go with coworkers to Italian on wednesday. Non-chinese food...
I also have been going through 45 eggs and about 6 different types of fruit (each with 4+ items) that I received last Saturday. My meals have been pretty much noodles with eggs, rice with eggs, scrambled eggs and sausages, boiled eggs... and a fruit or three. Although I still haven't touched the kumquats. Bananas go fast, though. Such a weird diet; nothing is synergistic flavor wise at all (although nutrition wise pretty much everything's covered, which is what matters I guess).
League of Legends works again. I'm still okay at Orianna, and I want to learn Graves. Lulu was kind of a disappointment, but I guess I have a support now. Still only have Orianna runes, so I guess I'll work on that. The entire mac client is pretty buggy though, and I had to look up how to button-force quit on a mac so I don't ruin my comp doing hard shutdowns. I'm surprised I haven't been banned given how many times I disconnect.
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