Alright so it's been a long time I haven't wrote English on my blog.  First off, because aside from a few friends (and my very supportive parents) I don't know if there's anyone else who comes on my blog who can't read Chinese.  Secondly, my English unfortunately is lagging, I find it harder and harder to express myself.

So what have I been up to?

Well I've become a TV host for HunanTV, and more specifically for a show called "Just Go".  The premise of Just Go is thusly:  a challenging race track--ropes/overblown footballs/a giant sized running track machine--surrounded by water.  Contestants have to get through the track in a record time and at the end of that, they win the show's sponsor's product: an air-conditioning (or a "beautiful air conditioning" if I literally translate the Chinese name).  Before contestants run the track, they enter into a small room (the "X small room" if I translate the Chinese literally) where they have the option to perform, some contestants decide to propose to their girlfriends, some give birthday gifts, some do backflips, some show off muscles, some sing etc... The main attraction of the show (and what makes this show one of the most watched in China) is seeing people fall in the water in ridiculous positions.  There are lots of slow mos of those falling sequences on the show, and it's actually quite balletic seeing the water slowly explode as they crash bottom first.

So how do you connect becoming a singer with becoming a TV host of hunan TV (and possibly/maybe the first foreign female Chinese-speaking TV host).  Well first off, to become a famous singer, you have to become a famous someone.  And by far the easiest way to do that in China is do become a TV host.  People see your face on TV every day so they remember you.  So becoming a TV host is a blessing (although sometimes when I'm tired of standing in high heels and talking in a foreign language for 5 hours straight I think it's a curse).  I started off at the local entertainment channel, a channel you could watch only if you are in Hunan province, and then before the entertainment channel show aired, I was spotted by people at the satellite channel of Hunan TV, and that's basically the equivalent of a dream come true.  In China Hunan satellite is huge (in particular ever since it aired the Chinese version of American Idol: Supergirls), it's the top entertainment channel of the country, maybe the equivalent of HBO in the States.

Just Go, my satellite show, will begin airing next week, and starting then I'll be on Chinese national TV Monday through Thursday in the 7:30PM time slot.  Already I've been getting some attention for it.  Let's see what happens when the show airs :)