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Hey guys, it’s been quite interesting lately here. I had another Fashion show for the brand Fenglei in Shen Yang, which is about 3 hrs by plane on the top of North Korea.

I was surprised when I arrived, it was a nice town, clean, green and welcoming if you know what I mean. A total contrast to what I’m used to in Guangzhou, dirty, loud, polluted and you see it everywhere.

To be honest it’s starting to annoy me quiet a bit, everywhere you walk it smells, many times I almost felt like ….. on the street. It is disgusting. Anyway this was a nice change, we got picked up at the airport and William and me were taking to a nice hotel where we met the organizer. Guess what we were welcomed with, McDonald’s ?!? U KIDDING?

Anyway, we were asked if we wanted to have Buffet in the hotel but William, me and others decided to go to the city and have nice dinner out. We also walked around the shops and did a bit of a sightseeing trip. In the end we had amazing Korean Food Korean?!? YES on of the best food I’ve had in my life, and it wasn’t too expensive probably because we were quite close to the border.

After having dinner we wanted to see if there is some nice pubs or clubs, but well it was a Tuesday night so not much spectacular was happening.

Next morning we had to be at the reception at 7.45 am to get our Breakfast! Looking forward to a buffet we walked to where we are supposed to get our breakfast. And then the big disappointment! Sweet bread with warm Milk!!!

This now happened the second time to me, I don’t get it! HOW in the world can u give 20 guys one sweet cheap Chinese bread and a warm little milk???? Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

That shouldn’t happen, a big fashion company providing food not even prisoners would get? But I guess in China everything is possible.

In the morning I got a phone call from Benny my booker that I had fitting that day in another town about 1.5hr away or so. William, Benny and me got a taxi and met the organizer of the fashion show. Most of the models were Chinese, except 3 Russian girls and us. The Bus ride in the end took almost 2 hours… William and me only got a little to eat before as we didn’t have enough time and the fitting was so sudden. We left Guangzhou at about 12:30 or so.

When we arrived we went into something like a factory hall, thousands of clothes just laying around. That day we had to dress in 4 different styles, the girls had 5 outfits. It took ages… and the best thing, to my surprise I got to know that in China the fitting is unpaid. What can you do? NOTHING! You get paid only for the show!

The whole time until 10pm when the fitting was finished we got nothing to eat, not even pour manager was allowed to get some food for us. Very disappointing. We got back to Guangzhou at about 11.30pm.

Anyway, second day we got I got up at 7am, met William at 7.30 and got a taxi to our meeting place to get the bus. Prior to that we had breakfast at, don’t judge us please, McDonald’s

The day consisted of the getting make-up and hair done, sleeping on chairs, rehearsal and cheap food, no fruit plate, nothing! All we got was rice, some leafes and beef consisting of bones and fat!

All in all I met some very nice interesting people, the fashion show itself was good. Some clothes I did like as well. Some of it reminded me of G-Star, guess why

Check out my photos in the gallery!