From Seoul, I flew immediately to Shanghai for SIAL. This won’t be a long post: bottom line is that I need to go somewhere else in China to decide if I like it or not. Shanghai was nice at first sight, yet when you get down to it – it’s full of pollution, rude people, and scam artists. I did a lot of shopping – it’s very cheap once you talk down the price (it seems every store you could barter, price tag or not).
I had a run in with some scam artists…who pretended to be actual artists…I won’t go in detail, but lets just say that Chinese police could care less about tourists, and will fully support the scam artists. Whatever. After that ordeal I ended up scamming a scam artist by bartering with them for a “Coach” purse for 150 yen (they asked 800 at first), lawl. Kati has yet to receive it but I’m positive she’ll like it.
As far as SIAL is concerned, I was pretty nervous about working a show alone. I set up the day before the show started, and there were even scam artists in the exhibit halls, trying to get you to rent their supplies and furniture for the booth…I don’t think they would have actually brought the supplies though after taking the companies money. Needless to say, I didn’t buy from them and instead had the USA pavilion leader rent the stuff I needed. I generated heaps of leads for the company, made lots of industry friends, and as a result, ended up coming home with a whole extra suitcase full of free giveaways from my new found friends, including foods like marshmallow popcorn, caramel pretzels, wine, tequila, and Chinese artwork.
I already miss airplane meals. Again, KOREAN AIR wins!
I must say though, I was glad to leave Shanghai and get back to Australia – the land of kind people (until they hear I’m from America). As we flew over Australia, I was stoked to be on English-speaking turf again with beautiful water surrounding the big island.
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