The club in Yueyang started at around 8pm. Cherry and I met up with a couple of her high school friends and some of their friends. There is a tremendously generous culture here for guests, and as I was certainly the whitest person they had seen in a while, I didn’t pay for anything. We had a booth, Budweiser, mixed drinks, non-mixed drinks, duck tongue, and some other stuff. I thought it was funny that some of the American rap songs were still censored even though none of them would be able to understand the curse words.
It was really dark with flashy lights and loud music, so it was especially hard to communicate, but the people in the table next to me called me over for a picture and gave me some drinks. (The way they do it: Bring a bottle of alcohol to the table along with about 20 20 ounce bottles of juice. Mix it a couple of juice bottles at a time into a larger pitcher, then pour some of that into a smaller pitcher. Use the smaller pitcher to pour the very diluted drinks into a shot glass. You can really drink all night because it might be 3% a.c.)
At about 10 o’clock, things really started going when they brought out the pole dancers. Unfortunately, there is a dude dancer up there also… not sure what the appeal for that was… tried to keep my eyes away from that. Anyway, someone asked me if I liked the girls. I said sure. He pulled me up to the stage, one of the girls pulled me onto the stage, everyone was cheering, me a little tipsy, she gave me a chair (I know writing this will getting me in trouble), danced, I’m a little embarrassed, danced closer…then poured ICE WATER on me. The whole packed club was watching. Pretty crazy night to end before 1130 in Yueyang. We stayed in a 50 rmb room because we missed the last bus.
The next day we did some touristy things and ate dog! also … my first art purchase!