I'm tired, really tired. It seems like all day I gave the same speech, over and over and over and over. "We're just starting out, looking to buy only a small amount of fabric but we'll be back when we get a bit more funding from back home," was what I said, all day, to at least 30 different vendors, in Chinese. I think most of them really wouldn't have even talked to me if I hadn't busted out the mandarin, they all seemed flabbergasted by it. Mainly because I was the first white guy who didn't have a translator with me (you should have seen the look I got from those same white guys when I hopped on a motorbike to avoid the longest taxi line I've ever seen in my life).

I'm so freaking exhausted right now, I'm lying in bed typing this and have to get up in a few hours to go finalize some deals I made today. But before I relent to the mounting protests made by my German ally (an oxymoron no more) to stop typing so loudly, some select highlights of today:

1) I found exactly what I was looking for in terms of Navy Wool and tweeds...sweet!

2) Buttons, oh buttons. Who knew that a textile fair would have so many button vendors?

3) I was invited, twice, to karaoke by old Chinese factory owners. Invitations accepted: 0 (karaoke is only fun with your friends, otherwise its just awkward)

4) I discovered that KFC should not be eaten for two days in a row, but the third day is actually not so bad.

5) The Shanghai Exhibition Center must have been an airport before it was made into the largest convention center in the world (I don't have any facts to back either of those claims up)

6) The Coffee Bean is a rip off, no matter what continent.

Ok, thats it for now, I'll post more tomorrow with pictures of my adventures.