{"id":1661,"date":"2023-02-23T06:57:38","date_gmt":"2023-02-23T06:57:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/melaniefischer.com\/?p=1661"},"modified":"2023-02-23T06:57:42","modified_gmt":"2023-02-23T06:57:42","slug":"fashion-food-spirit-and-sports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/melaniefischer.com\/2023\/02\/23\/fashion-food-spirit-and-sports\/","title":{"rendered":"Fashion, Food, Spirit, and Sports"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Bizarre cage outfit with half dressed man inside<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Dan went to Shanghai for a long weekend for the APAC conference – an inter-school competition – the first in three years. That Friday night a friend invited me to a fashion show and after party of the designer Hu She Guang. The previous show, two years ago – due to Covid – looked pretty crazy so I signed up. There ended up being a group going and they hired a photographer to photograph us! The show was held at the InterContinental Hotel in Sanliton – a fancy neighborhood downtown. Evening was super fun but the business model was nothing I have ever heard of before. I didn\u2019t realize it until someone pointed it out to me, but most of the models were seniors – not as in highschool but as in older adults. Apparently there were about 60 runway models. Maybe 7 of them were professionals. The others were seniors. The seniors were women who like the designer\u2019s clothes and they buy a membership – which gets them pieces of clothing and then they become the models for the show. The Huang Rui doesn\u2019t sell to stores – it is all by membership. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The next day I took the kids to check out the neighborhood and (most importantly) a bookstore I\u2019d heard about near Tiannamen Square. The kids were so excited – it was a very large beautiful bookstore with many books in English! Afterwards we went out for a lovely Lunner (Celia was too hungry to wait until dinner time) – that had an amazing view of the surrounding hutong neighborhood (the traditional one story with winding pathways neighborhood). After Lunner we wandered around the neighborhood for a while before heading back home.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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View in front of bookstore (One Page)\u2019s window<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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View from Lunner\u2019s restaurant deck<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Funny mural in hotel with restaurant<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Other than those events, Morton has been playing a lot of volleyball. His season ended last weekend with a big tournament. The team didn\u2019t do their best for the final horrah – but their playing has gotten better and better. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Celia has been doing lots of senior spirit events:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Seniors dress like a teacher day – this is Celia\u2019s favorite film teacher Mr Rinka<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Dan and I had a nice night out with a couple friends going to an art opening of Huang Rui – a historically important Chinese artist – followed by dinner at a yummy Chinese restaurant. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Standing in front of one of the new pieces<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Not the most flattering photo but the food was delicious!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

I have been playing more and more tennis as things have opened back up. Yesterday was the first time I got bumped off the courts at school. We couldn\u2019t believe it. The woman in charge of organizing the tennis afterschool lessons came over to kick us off for a lesson and when we introduced ourselves to each other she said to me, \u201cOh – Ganish (the coach here) said you have big balls\u201d. I was a little surprised\/ confused. I think somewhere between the Indian teacher, the Chinese organizer, and the English being spoken to me there was a translation malfunction – but it definitely gave me a good laugh. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Amazing indoor tennis facility at kids\u2019 school<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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Dan went to Shanghai for a long weekend for the APAC conference – an inter-school competition – the first in three years. That Friday night a friend invited me to a fashion show and after party of the designer Hu She Guang. The previous show, two years ago – due to Covid – looked pretty […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[264,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-february-2023","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/melaniefischer.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1661","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/melaniefischer.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/melaniefischer.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/melaniefischer.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/melaniefischer.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1661"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/melaniefischer.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1661\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1672,"href":"https:\/\/melaniefischer.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1661\/revisions\/1672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/melaniefischer.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/melaniefischer.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/melaniefischer.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}