I have to tell you I let myself notice lately here in Beijing
1) I'm blonde again ...
2) after some patience ... I have finally become the upper half of a person wearing a formal jacket telling the news from the day before to the people in the telly ... and more, I am the first upper half of a Belgian to do that on Chinese TV !
Yeps ! I am a news TV anchor ! I had been longing for that since I was a child (and blond) ...
I officially started yesterday at 10pm for the 10-minutes cultural news program
http://fr.cctv.com/program/journaldelaculture/20060119/101230.shtml
And while I was at it,
I anchored a 2d one, the real, serious, one, 30-minutes long at 11pm
Which was totally unexpected (sic, there a was a mess on the planning and at the end of the day, I was the only one sporting the right kind of Rod Stewart's hairdo and the war paintings they call make-up here) ...
http://fr.cctv.com/program/journal/20060119/100743.shtml
To be honest, during the intro of the first program, I started feeling very scared. It is quite lucky TV anchors usually sit while broadcasting, otherwise the first image of the studio would have been an empty one ... I would not have been able to raise only an eyebrow, I was petrified.
And I could not hear the first text I read aloud, I thought the technicians would tell me off for not speaking loud enough. I could just hear my heart pounding in my chest "pototom, pototom, pototom..."
A good rush of adrenaline makes you always feel better...
But that, it was almost ok,
Sorry for the blank endless staring,
No, I was not trying to hypnotize people through hertzian waves
I was just afraid to skip a line of text on the screen ...
I'll maybe do better next time
Kisses full of orange foundation
Babo