two nights of clubbing in UB

so the past few nights we have taken to trying some new clubs around UBtuesday night ninj took us to a place called Strings. it was a very classy place -- we went early so we wouldn't have to pay the 8000 tugrig cover charge. they had a live phillipino band, that melissa was really excited about (she's the phillipino girl on the trip). the band performed mostly american cover songs, with a few mongolian and phillipino ones too. they were seriously amazing -- there were two girl singers and one guy -- and they could conform to make their voices identical to who they were covering. one minute you would think you were listening to shakira, and then it would be the black eyed peas, then maroon 5. it was really impressive. we had a really fun time -- and it wasn't even a sweatbox every other club we've been to is. there was this really crazy old mongolian dude that kept trying the dance with allie and melissa.... it was pretty priceless because he obviously watched one too many michael jackson videos -- and he though he could dance like mj. clearly not the case.

last night we went to Metropolis with zula, solongo, and munkho. they're the ladies from the international studies office, so they also brought a group of students who just arrived in UB that they're working with. they were korean and friendly enough, though they told me it was the first time they've ever been to a club -- and their dance skills confirmed that statement. i mean don't get me wrong, my dancing abilities are illustrative of stereotypical tall awkward white boy syndrome -- so when i call somebody a bad dancer... it's pretty bad. it kind of looked like they were doing jazz-aerobics or something. the club only played techno music, which got pretty old after a while, and the bright flashing lights and smoke machines have probably caused seizures at least once or twice. all in all though, it was a decent night.