Our Fancy Schmancy Hotel

Taken from Email #1, 5/24/11

Holy Guacamole! They told us 5-star hotel, but we figured that in China that meant Motel 6 quality at best. I was prepared for squatters, bucket showers, and rock hard beds...NOPE. It's one of the nicest buildings I've seen so far here. We have very nice rooms, big TVs, showers, toilets, and big beds that are uber comfortable. Since I was prepared to live in pretty ghetto circumstances, this was a great suprise! 

When we walked into the hotel we saw a sign up in the lobby saying
"Welcome Artists from Southern Utah University of U.S.A. to LOGOSUN Hotel." 

and then they had it translated into Chinese on the sign next to it! Yeah, friggin TIGHT. They all treat us like talented and famous guests, honored to have us staying there. HA. 

The hotel also gave our whole group cards to use and show people if we ever need assistance inside or outside the hotel.  Hospitality at it's finest!

Wow. These people are crazy generous

Take from Email #1, 5/24/2011

Holy cow the dance company directors are generous!

They already brought gifts every time they came to the U.S. to visit, now they've paid for our hotel and food, I thought that was plenty.

Not for them!

When we first arrived and went to go eat lunch in the "cafeteria", which was a small, pretty fancy room with two big tables for us all and a giant flatscreen TV, among other things, we found out they had just finished building the cafeteria for us the day before!

They made an entire room just for us to eat lunch in every day!!

Not a fantastic picture of it.... but a picture nonetheless. 

...Then after we finished eating lunch they brought out these super nice thermoses for us to use- I never knew a thermos could be so awesome, I'm pretty sure these must be the nicest thermoses in the world, I would explain what they do but I don't really understand it all - but I know they're cool.

Also, when we got back to the hotel one of the girls asked about laundry, how much we'd have to pay to do it- they said they don't want us having to pay for it, so they're buying us a washing machine. do you hear that? THEY'RE BUYING US A WASHING MACHINE. wow. I'm not even going to delve into the amount of/quality of food they give us in this section, but seriously,

I'm living the life here!