part one
invitations
this last week, the 2 other English teachers and I got an invitation to go to one of the chinese teacher's apartments to visit because she had just gotten married. she wanted to show us her pictures and her new place. aftwards, there would be a dinner "outside". i had no clue what that meant. like "outside" as in a picnic. "outside" on a patio? just "outside" of her home? a restaurant? this list could go on forever. i was reminded every day that week about this affair. i was pretty excited :)
so after school we taxied to Estella's place. it was so cute!! her and her new husband had all these adorable pictures of themselves all over the place (gag me. i hate love) and a list of 4 things they must do every day, like: always kiss me goodnight, always tell me "honey, i am home"... etc. it was precious. we all went into her bedroom and looked at about 1000 pictures from her wedding. it was the first time i had actually been explained how a chinese wedding works! it is so different from america!
the bride wears about 4 dresses which are absolutely gorgeous. the groom picks the bride up at her parents house in her bedroom. they then have a small soup or tea ceremony with her parents and they give their future "son" and daughter a red envelope filled with money. they parents eat the soup and then it is the new couple's turn.
get this... so in the soup dumpling thing (i wish i remembered what it was called) has some type of "seed" in it. the bride is to spit it out into a red envelope for the groom, which is symbolized of her "giving her seed to her husband"... aka a baby! weird.
after this at the bride's house, they go to the groom's house (their new home together) and repeat this ceremony with his parents (minus the seed part).
that night they have a wedding dinner.
this is by no means super detailed. its just what i remembered her saying... i was more into the dresses and decorations :)
after this we went to a restaurant with all the international class teachers and the ayis, along with the principal and "secretary" type lady as well.
this dinner, once again, was out of control! amazing food! they had anything from crab, to little squids, pork and garlic bread :) haha im confused on what this dinner was actually for? was it estella's wedding? was it Dong Laoshi's (an ayi in the school. oh and for your information, an "ayi" is a teacher in the classroom who basically takes care of all cleaning, both kids and classroom, and lunch) birthday celebration? was it just for good measure? because i am pretty positive the school paid for it.
overall - it was a fun night once again with my coworkers :) my camera died or i totally would have taken pictures.
part two
airplanes
after the dinner, i came home and mac and i decided to go ahead and open a bottle of wine :) duh. i had had a ROUGH day (rough doesn't even explain it right now) and needed to go out. so we dressed up, hopped into a cab and went to a place called D10 Departure Lounge. the place was an airplane inside! it was so fun! there were overhead compartments and everything. all the staff were dressed as flight attendants and pilots. sections were roped off as either economy, first class and the cockpit.
it was such a cool (and totally asian) place!
this week can't go FAST enough. i am so ready to see "harry pott" this weekend :)
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