CURRY TIME: Living in the China Moment

1am- shooting the nightlife segment

Day 7 was our longest, but best brainstorming day yet. We hit the tennis courts, did a spotlight interview with Michael Sicora, got down and dirty in the cafeteria, and FINALLY found the night life on campus.

shooting the cafeteria segment with USA's men's water polo team

Before shooting our nightlife segment, we hit up "The Wine Culture Experience" center where we met our new friend & college graduate Alex (next to me). This was the first native Chinese person that not only spoke english, but talked to us for longer then 5 minutes. We had been in China for 7 days now, with so many questions and no answers- Alex was in for it.

But before bombarding Alex with questions,we had to know how every Chinese person had American names like: Alex, Nancy, Brenda, Lauren, Fred, Tom... Answer- They simply go down a list and pick their favorite name to share with tourists.

After an hour of picking Alex's brain we were on the topic of living in the moment, and in this moment we were in China for 17 days, working 15 of them, yet so close to unforgettable land marks. We were in quarter final territory for the games, but in a spur of the moment decision we had to see the Great Wall of China and Forbidden City...so we booked a 3hr flight to Beijing the next day, and our 1 day bullet trip of the moment was set in stone.