Made in China - Smile for the Camera

Do you ever say yes to something before you realize what you said yes to? I feel like this happens a lot in China between languages and cultures. You'll soon see a video of a performance we did with students soon but this was another little side adventure that happened last Saturday. A friend of a students asked Monica (my teammate) if she could get some foreigners together to help her friends company. They needed foreigners to model some clothes while they took pictures. They were starting this company and needed some foreign faces. To bless the student and help bring her face we thought, "eh, why not? It's not that big of a deal." haha. Oh were we in for a surprise.

It might take a few minutes for all the pictures to load, but trust me they are worth it. I hope you enjoy our Saturday morning 5+ hour photo shoot.

China, not Africa.
But we are out in the middle of a park getting these pictures taken "for a friend."

This was a super warm coat. It matches my shorts so well.
Thank goodness for cropping.

The modern day "Thinker"

You'd be surprised how many clothes they can pack in here.
It was pretty much nonstop for over 5 hours.
Took one coat off and they had another coat/jacket/overalls/suit for us to put on.

Look very closely at my left arm.
There's a little yellow screwdriver they put in there for looks.

That little yellow screw driver jumped out of my pocket as I banged my arm on the rail.
Don't you know, it jumped right into that water!
Luckily we had a shovel and pick ax for props to retrieve said little yellow screw driver.

80's running man?

Yeah... at this point I started to feel famous.

They caught me in action taking off my sunglasses.

You've heard of "Blue Steel" this one is called "The Squat"

Focus really hard on the ground right ....there.

The beautiful foreign teachers of Hua Qiao.
This was our own shot just for kicks, you can tell by the lack of professional lighting.

This is the pose I offered many times, but they always rejected.
I guess too much for China.

Yes, even hunting gear.

Check out these guns!
Seriously, they gave us toy guns to use in the picture to make it look more real.
Can you even get these in China?

Award: Most Awkward Picture of the Day!
I couldn't quit laughing at the cracks we were making.

You wanna mess with this? Pssh. This plastic is dangerous.

Action shot.

Who doesn't go hunting with an uzi?

We're having a show down. Who can "shoot" the other first.
He won.

Changed locations and headed off to work on the road way.
Action shot part 2.

Just in case anyone needs firemen outfits, or look-a-likes, we got em.

Stud.

High Ho High Ho - It's back to work I go.

This is the company we just signed on for http://en.forbright.com/. Apparently, they make clothes in China and then export all of them to England, Germany, and France (and potentially America soon). The website is in 4 languages and apparently this company is a lot more establish than I had ever imaged. Coming soon some good looking Americans on their webpage. :) I guess since we're foreigners/Americans they imagined us to be much bigger so they brought BIG clothes... even after they facebook stalked us to get our sizes. Good photo shoot though. I never imagined anything like this when I came to teach English... ah... when in China