Extra 3: Notes About Our Leisure Time

Extra 3: Notes About Our Leisure Time

I helped organize the Zhang familys annual party. Since we would have to pass through Shanghai after departing from Yangcheng Lake on our return trip, I had the sudden idea of taking the Zhang family members to Disneyland.

I had been thinking about how to be a good event organizer the whole time and was at wit's end. We didnt have a good time while eating at the crab restaurant I had selected (1). Moreover, they ate way too fast, so this activity didnt really feel like an activity. But it was also difficult for me to explain how long it should take for people to eat crabs or what kind of mood they should be in when eating crabs.

After they finished eating, they were waiting to hear what the next activity would be. The atmosphere was very heavy, which made me feel like they were actually a group of leaders who were testing my ability to receive people. So, I decided to take them to Disneyland.

After I brought them into the theme park, I left them to their own devices. I went and squatted down near the shady jungle restaurant where all the exhausted rough guys had also gathered.

My mentality at the time was: Ive brought the fresh-out-of-the-jungle Tarzan to the human world. Ive brought the T-Rex to Columbia City. I have to see what happens and let myself have some fun.

I turned my head to look for their patriarch in the crowd, but couldnt find him amid the flashing fireworks going off above us.

The end of the Hangzhou Archives first annual party was marked by the sound of the theme parks paging system announcing a missing person.

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TN Notes:

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