Yesterday there was a gathering of pregnant moms and future dads to learn how to take care of newborns. So as a good husband I went with Li Yan to a talk I was not going to understand anything about! We arrived on time and had a good seat and waited till 9:30 for the kick-off. But of course we had to wait half an hour longer before they actualy started because most of the people were late...
They started to introduce themselves and told us (I understood it after Li Yan translated) this was going to be a competition. Every mom to be got a sticker with a certain color. That color was your team and we turned out to be blue! My favourite color so for sure good luck.
The competition started and they needed four (one from each team) future dads. Since I was the only male with a big nose, big eyes and white skin (more like a farmers tan)... yes you can guess... I was an encouraged volunteer. My wife said something about changing baby dolls and as I recall my smelly babysitting experience I was up for it. After standing up they brought me a vest with weights in it that I had to put on, this was pretty weird to me cause why prentending pregnant when you have to change a baby doll. As I recall there is still a one child policy in China (they did change that policy in Shanghai this weekend though).
So it was not changing and cleaning smelly dolls but we had to experience how a pregnant woman feels (last summer, when I came back from Belgium where I gained 10 kilos, the experience was pretty real ). With Li Yan's translation I started pretending.
Now you have been reading this far so here is the clue of the day! The first thing we had to pretend was to sleep with the weights around us. So I sat down on my bottom and went to sleep on my side. And so immediatly I took a head start! All the other guys were sleeping on their back!? Do these dads sleep on the sofa? Or they never look at their wife/girlfriend? Maybe they are to drunk when they fall asleep. But a pregnant woman does not sleep on her back. Sometimes when I wake up at night and see my wife on her back I will push and turn her over gently. How can you NOT know this; are they married or ready to divorce?
Apart from sleeping we had to pretend some other daily moms actions and so I did fight the best I could to become a real pregnant woman. My job was over and a woman explained about sleeping on the side.
Following four new dads needed to change a baby doll and the competion ended with four couples playing a word game. That was it but before we got to know the final results there was a commercial break about baby milk since all of this was organized by a brand I don't even recall anymore ;)
So who was the winning team. You know I'm not writing all of this for nothing so of course it was the blue team.
This was the first time for me to win a competition in China, normaly a white face cannot win but 99 procent of my team looked pretty yellow.
Oh you're asking if there was a price. Well of course; we got a pair of baby socks! These socks even came with flyers of the milk powder.
Just ashame I did not bring my camera with me... because the rest was not very usefull.
Oh yeah in the afternoon we bought a sofa but I will spare you the details.
Sunday, August 9, 2009
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