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molly_texeira: First time doing VIP was with these dudes. Still one of my favorite tours I have done! I think it's time to slowly post my favorite Polaroids from over the years ❤
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molly_texeira: First time doing VIP was with these dudes. Still one of my favorite tours I have done! I think it's time to slowly post my favorite Polaroids from over the years ❤
DarrenCriss: It's been a year... #listenuptour - San Francisco, CA - May 29, 2013
Darren Criss on Ann Arbor’s 107one (June 13, 2013) - Part 2 | Part 1
It was definitely the most fun I’ve ever had. It was a professional environment filled with great music, a great group of people on the whole team, plus my first time in a proper Prévost bus, and playing in front of 1,500 to 3,000 people a night for a month was amazing. I was kind of working around the clock but it was really rewarding work. Everything was awesome and I learned a ton about how that kind of operation works. Everyone was playing two sets a night because basically Darren’s backing band was my band. We’d go up there and rock my set, which was really well-received, then we’d change clothes and do Darren’s set.
Theo Katzman on Darren Criss' Listen Up tour (MLive.com)
I'm not sure I was just in the *real* Chinese countryside
The following reasons make me protest the idea that I was in the countryside that I was told I was going to:
1. Their living conditions were significantly better than a. we were told they would be and b. I had expected them to be. (Camp Bob Cooper's living conditions (where LU Crew spends spring break) are not as nice as these were)
2. The school was in better condition that I thought it would be- it was relatively clean, the windows and doors opened and closed the way they are supposed to, all rooms had electricity and ceiling fans, the teacher's office had AC and wifi (which I tried not to use as much as possible)
3. The kids (aged 9-11) had digital cameras, cell phones with cameras on them (my phone here in China doesn't even have a camera), a few even had iPads (please note that Apple products are waaaayyy more expensive in China than they are in the US). They also all had QQ, which is like AIM, which means they must have had a way to get online.
The following reasons make me feel that I certainly was in the Chinese countryside:
1. The most amazing views of mountains upon waking up every morning and all day long
2. The most amazingly welcoming host family and locals with the hardest to understand Pingjiang accents (when speaking Mandarin)
3. Skies so clear, at night you could see the Milky Way (or, as I have now learned “银河” "yínhé")
4. The freshest food you could ever dream of eating - all grown right on the farm and picked fresh right before being cooked up (this includes the chicken we had upon our arrival, apparently (∩_∩))
5. TEA! Grown and picked approximately 100 feet from the door and dried and all that in our very house! (you think people who drink Teavanna tea are snobs...;)
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