Wrestling Blogs - Martin Floreani

So here we are on another side of the world and things are really different!

Yesterday we got in around 11pm. I came in with Nick Feckete and right off the bat wanted to go to Beijing Normal but I decicded to first go my hotel and meet up with him later. When we got to my hotel with my brother and my friend Garrett we decided that "heck we are only in China once" so we hit the town. It was pretty strange going around the city. When you get right down and think about it is totally crazy how people talk here. I would try and say "Ni Hao" to a lot of people and make eye contact with them just to make a connection. We went to this place that had all these restaurants and bars around a lake. I think it was just built for the Olympics because people were still trying to finish the last touches of their establishments. That is really last minute type stuff!!!

It was cool walking around. We saw these older Americans (I think) doing karoke to rock and this chinese girl about 3 years old dancing all around the dance floor like she was the happiest person in the world. It was really funny...and then we saw this asian doing karoke right next door and he was all serious like it was his profession.....I think they take karoke pretty serious here. We walked some more and had to pull Garrett from spending all of his money on the first day on cheap knock of watches and stuff. We finally got to a disco where the music was bumping ......bump bump bump!!! And we each got a beer.

We danced a bit to American Tunes with all the chinese ladies were dancing. It was pretty funny and there is so much of a cultural divide, but with music can transcend it really easily. Well these ladies would dance but I think they got kinda nervous around Garrett who happens to be blonde hair and Blue eyes. They loved him and followed him around the club, but Garrett who is single was too shy to make conversation. So after giving Garrett a hard time while  walking around to the other bars we decided to call it a night.

On the way home I saw these two Chinese guards walking all stern like, and we were walking besides them. I made eye contact and said hi to them partly because I knew no one does that to them and they just looked at me. I smiled and kept on walking and I knew they were a little taken back. My brother and Garrett said that wasnt the smartest thing to do but what can I say...I just got caught up in the Olympic Spirit of it all!