So I have been lapse in many of my duties over the last 2 months...not writing on this blog, check...not skyping my friends & family, check...not completely focused on all that Beijing has to offer, double check. The reason for this can all be traced back to November 10th when I went to a meeting called the BSB Ball Planning Meeting. Oh, if I had only been sick or if I'd liked my fellow Parent Association cohorts just a little less ...
There is a suburb of Beijing called Shunyi. And in Shunyi is the other campus of the British School of Beijing. I'm on the downtown PA Board and we were planning a Charity Ball with the PA of Shunyi. I'd like to think we all said 'yes' b/c the pressure was there to say something and we didn't know any better to run screaming in the other direction.
I begrudgingly signed up to be on the Entertainment Committee and the Silent Auction committee. I am not going to bore you with all the things that went wrong along the way but it was mainly a frustrating experience dealing with the 'other' group of ladies. Lots of headaches, hair pulling, massive email debates and terrible leadership.
But there is a happy ending. The Ball was a lot of fun and the other guests didn't seem to notice the things that didn't go quite as planned. And the plus to all the complaining and moaning and venting is my 3 fellow downtown organizers and I bonded against the Shunyi organizers and are as thick as thieves. And looking fantabulous, I might add. ;-)
Oh and we also raised 110,000RMB ($17,000) for our charity of choice...ORBIS Flying Eye Hospital. I should have probably have mentioned that before the 'fantabulous' part....
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