Expo Village: Harmonious Coexistence Of Villagers Of Different Colors

Expo Village is located in the northeast corner of the Pudong block of the Expo site, east to Pudong South Road, Expo Village Road, West to Bailian Jing, South to Yilian Road, north to Expo Avenue, next to Huangpu River.

The area is 365 thousand square meters, divided into living area and supporting service area.

The main living areas include InterContinental Hotel, Expo Jin Jiang Apartment, Shanghai Expo.

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Every evening, when the villagers of different colors return to the temporary home, they may carry a bag of vegetables and fruits bought from the South Wharf farm, and may have a bottle of champagne for the evening party.

All the "villagers" add up to more than 100 nationalities, and different cultures and customs can not be avoided.

It is rare that since the first batch of villagers were admitted six months ago, except for occasional drunken men lying in the village, few incidents of unhappiness occurred.

Frugality: many people buy vegetables and cook after work.

A property officer said, "there is a vegetable farm near the South Pier Road outside the Expo Village. Many foreign guests are familiar with it, and they go there to buy vegetables and come back to do it.

At four or five p.m. every day, many people carry bags into the door. They are like some office workers who buy vegetables to go home.

Unlike some people's previous expectations, most of the staff here seem to be frugal.

At first, the hotel apartment had a special breakfast for the villagers, but it didn't seem to be very popular.

After finding this situation, the hotel staff quickly modified some menu to make it more "routine" and sometimes mixed vegetables and fruits to facilitate "villagers" to purchase when needed.

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Neighbourhood contradiction: property to resolve "Midnight Song" storm

The Romania Pavilion performs lively theatrical performances every day, and when the night falls, the Romania workers will also gather to sing and dance in the open space, as if the daytime show has not been fully addicted.

As time goes on, workers from other countries will be somewhat dissatisfied.

"We are very tired after work. How can you rest in this way?" exaggerated one time, the villagers of Romania who were immersed in joy were thrown several eggs.

A few weeks ago, the staff of Romania were reveling again.

At 3:30 in the morning, the American villagers were intolerable and called the property phone.

East Lake Apartment Hotel vice president Luo Jing Xiang personally arrived at the coordination, and sent a suggestion: "or else, do you dance in the garage?" Romania staff accepted this somewhat helpless proposal, and presented him with a bottle of red wine.

Later, Luo Jingxiang pferred the red wine to the American villagers who complained to us, telling him that this was a red wine from a friend from Romania.

A storm was resolved.

World Cup cheer: the fans are friendly but drunk.

Before the start of the world cup, the staff of the Argentina Pavilion took the lead in hanging the national flag outside the balcony. Before long, the staff of other national libraries followed suit.

After the World Cup began, the property wanted to arrange for them to watch the ball in the collective area of the two floor, but it soon found that the villagers seemed to like to cheer outside.

As a result, the cabin bar in the Expo Village is the best place to watch.

In order to "be fair", the property personnel hung all the small flags of the participating teams outside the wooden hut, and the large screen televisions were also ready to be put in place. In the eye-catching location of the hotel lobby, the schedule of the World Cup tournament in South Africa was also posted.

In July 11th, several hours before the start of the competition, soccer fans from all over the world had gathered in the cabin bar and sat together in a lively manner to guess which team would win. The atmosphere was very warm.

"I was worried about conflicts between fans in different countries, such as football hooligans and so on. Fortunately, there was no conflict later, but there was a lot of drunks at that time."

In order to ensure the normal life of the guests, the property also took care of the shops in the village as far as possible not to supply a large amount of strong wine, but prepared enough beer around the cabin.

During the world cup, processing bottles became a "compulsory course" for cleaning staff every morning.

"Home" is very warm: the curator recognized the property as "Chinese son".

Most of the foreign villagers came to Shanghai alone, except for a small number of foreign staff who came to the embassy.

The director of the Pacific Union Pavilion is one of them, but she is not alone in the village. Apart from a group of exhibitors from the United Pavilion, she also has a "Chinese son".

This "Chinese son" is Cai Qinghua, the front office manager of East Lake hotel apartment.

Gannerau often asked little Cai Liaotian to share with him the customs and customs of the island country. Xiao Cai introduced China and the World Expo to her and tried to give her family and friends feelings as much as possible.

Once, Gannerau suddenly felt unwell. Xiao Cai took the front desk staff to the hospital immediately and stayed with her all the time.

Looking at such a considerate young man, Gannerau moved to Xiao Cai and said, "you are my" son of China. "

The party is wonderful.

Angola staff do "wheat bully"

Although World Expo is brilliant, but for most villagers, the "two points" life of the park and Expo Village is somewhat monotonous.

In order to enrich the lives of these workers and let them work in a happier mood, the East Lake Apartment Hotel decided to organize a cool party for them, and moved Zhouzhuang to the Expo Village.

In the evening of July 10th, the waterscape outside the small wooden house was decorated with tables and chairs and an environmental protection paper stool. The performers from Zhouzhuang brought tea show and Jiangnan waterfront costumes show. Villagers watched the performance of the cup and watched with relish.

Several of the staff from Angola were delighted to have jumped to the stage to perform their performances. Several songs had been sung, and they were asked to "sing for another two hours" to make the audience a surprise, and the staff were also laughing and crying.

Thanks to the extraordinary success of the evening party, the hotel apartment decided to organize the staff of the library to "go to the countryside" and go to Nanxun to collect the scenery on the spot.

After busy working hours, there is such an opportunity for the curators to be particularly excited.

Helm, curator of the Canadian Pavilion, said that she was too busy at the moment. It was the first time that she had taken a rest from the opening of the Canadian Pavilion. She had heard about the South China's water towns in the past, but she never experienced it before. This is a rare opportunity.