Susan's Shanghai Blog - Week 92

Another short week for the blog. This year, I volunteered to work the BMW golf tournament for 2 days, and then we got tickets to go watch the tournament on Sunday.

These are a couple pictures that I took on the way out to the Lake Malaren golf course, which is at the end of one of the metro lines to the North of Shanghai. A few stops before the end, the metro comes back above ground and you can see complex upon complex of new high-rise apartments going up.

Here is me getting ready to go out my first day. This is our volunteer uniform ... khaki pants (your own) along with a lime green polo shirt and a white, blue, and lime green pull-over sweater, provided by Hugo Boss. We were supposed to also get a wind jacket, but only the "chinese" sizes made it to the tournament on time .. the "european" sizes (translation, larger ones) didn't show up in time. My job for the first 2 days was called an advance marshall, which really just means a marshall to help with crowd control on marquee groups. With a few select groups, they had 2 or 3 extra marshalls walking with the players to just provide additional assistance. Mind you, I did this on Thursday and Friday when the groups I was with only had like 20 spectators, so it really wasn't needed. We had signs in both English and Chinese. Mind you ... the concept of not taking pictures seemed foreign to the Chinese fans, and no matter how many times you told them "no cameras", they would pull them back up and start taking more pictures the second you turned around.

For a few minutes, Daly was actually in 2nd place!

A few just general pictures of the golf course, including a few that I took during the tournament. Yes, Thursday and Friday I'm a marshall telling people "no cameras", and then Sunday, I become a Chinese spectator trying to sneak pictures on my iPhone. Tom kept yelling at me, but to no avail :-)