This is what I love about these message boards. I can be anywhere in the world and have people to talk with about metal. I guess I was too nervous before I saw Maiden last month because it was going to be my first show in a foreign country, something as I mentioned that has been a long time in the making. After I saw the show and went on a grand tour of my first home city in China, which is Hangzhou, I was ecstactic! I was so ecstatic that when I played an English games with my students the same week, we had a big thunderstorm in my class and as I would've done anyways, I made everyone shout "yeah" every time there was good lightning and loud thunder. We were like the ancient Romans during a gladiator game in the Colosseum! My students are not into metal but I told them that whatever makes them happy, makes me happy. However, I still had no one to talk metal and good music with am I'm glad I came here! Though I've been here in China four years, I still have culture shock sometimes and I need my coffee every morning. Nobody is perfect, but my students have accepted me and that means everything. I'm definitely the only metal fan in my school, and the loudest teacher and metal and other rock gets me through the most difficult days, and Iron Maiden always does but I still want to talk music.and what my students can call "foreigner things" with other rockers.