Ok where do I start...Where do I start?
I suppose the best place would be me coming back from Rizhao. Oh Vince before I forget, the things I talked about in the demo, was and I will just make a list. That way it may help others who want to go down this road. Although they didn't work for me !!! It was my Scottish Language that failed me, not the subject matter...
List
My name...Including Chinese Name...
Age...
Married/Divorced/Seperated/Single...
Where Born...
Where Living...
Using Uk singular and as a whole, explaining how there are 4 Countries in GB...
Education...
Explaining Cetificates and showing them all including any Degree's you may have...USE PROPS
Work History...
May have to explain certain work to them...
Likes and Dislikes...
and the most Important one...WHY you come to China to live...
Other topics can include types of food...
cars...
planes...
Countries (That you have experienced in going to...
Holidays...
The list can be endless...
So as you can see, there is no shortage of things to talk about...
Now back to Script.
Today while in Rizhao, Anne must have phoned me about 6 times to check on me. On the first call, I asked straight away how Fanyung was doing and if he was ok. The answer was 'Yes, he is ok". But she did share a few deletives concerning her uncle and his pooch, of course I am only summising this as it was in Chinese. I dare say HE will get a good telling off of when she sees him next...
Anyway I come back and gets ready to go and see her, I pick her up from her address, which I had written down, and then got someone in the hotel to scrib into proper Chinese for me and the taxi driver:icon_biggrin:
As we set off I phoned her to tell her "I was on my way", so she said "wait in the car I will be downstairs"
She comes down and there is a happy smile on her face and I think to myself 'Oh Shit, that will soon be gone':s We get to the restaurant the first one we were at (which is quite apt) and we get a seat by/near the window. We orders some drinks and food, my favourite so far Sichuan Hotpot, and she gets some Squid (YUK) As she was eating that I thought, no way am I kissing her tonight. haha But then it came to me, 'You still gotta tell her!!!':huh:
I wait until the meal is over and I start with. "Anne, sweetheart:-/, You know where I was today and the job interview I went for?" She say's "Yes, tut, I talked to you all day:huh:"., that cracked me up. Her answers again will be in brackets. "Well I never got it." (Smiles right across her face..."Oh why?"). So I explained about the language difference etc, and all she could say was '"BUT I understand you!!!" This was harder than I planned.
So again, I explained a bit more in better detail, so she nods her head, as if to say Ahhh right. I told her that I needed this job so I could stay here in Qingdao. Now this lady is NOT as DUMB as it seems here...("Your Staying here"... Smiles again) So I rub my the top of my brow because by now I was getting perplexed. So I took her face in my hands, made her look strauight at me, and I nodded NO...Again this is wher the shit hits the fan so to speak, the tears appear. "But why, you good teacher!!!" is all I can hear her say, and at that I'm totally lost for words because the emotion is now setting in within me. I asked the waiter to "watch our table that we would be right back", he saw that she was crying now, BLOODY HELL, so did everyone in China I think. Anyway, we are at the door and I get her calmed down and tell her, I will be only away for 12 weeks (tears again) Now I'm thinking to myself, how the feck am I going to get this better and make her understand. So I say lets wipe away the tears and go back upstairs.
This she does but they are like a continues stream... We get back to the table and I can see everyone looking at me and possibly thing Bloody laowei:s, so as she sits down I move closer to er and bring out the ring, that I had bought the other day (before I run out of money) I opened the box and presented it to her, sayin, "Wo ai ni, Anne... I love you, will you marry me?" (well it was no good me going down all my knees lol). The tears came and she took the ring put it on the wrong finger, which I then had to show her which one, and she said YES:icon_cheesygrin:. Once that word come out she flung her arms around me AGAIN, and kissed me right there in the middle of the place...Some people saw this and shouted and clapped, well mostly the ladies...
The waiter came over and asked if we would like a drink, because his manager had seen this and was really happy for us.. We said thanks and just got a fruit juice. After I paid the bill, she said "you come home with me?". Anne went to the bathroom and when she came back out, I saw the tears again, but when she came up and I was starting to ask what was wrong she said "it's Ok". We left with many people patting her and my shoulder, so I was pleased at this... We decided to walk to mine so I could get changed again, tonight I felt all sweaty under my arms. We got her and I logged in for a few minutes. and then left to go to hers. We get a taxi again and we set off, just as we pull into her street, she sees her sister (mother had the boy), so she stops the car, I pay and she jumps out and RUNS to her sister and shows her the ring. The two of them hug and when I get over, she gives me a hug too:icon_biggrin:
Whats going through my mind!!! That's right MOTHER and UNCLES:s
We get upstarirs and all I can hear aprt from the clunk clunk of her shoes, is her singing away to herself, even though she has my arm I'm feeling NERVOUS...We get in and mother comes rushing out and shouting something in Chinese and starts hugging Anne and myself??? Little did I know that, when she was in the bathroom she had phoned her mother and told her. I thought they always done this face to face???
Anyway, not long til I'm finshed!!!
Mother hurriedly runs into the kitchen and mkes some tea while me and Anne sit on the couch, like 2 love sick teenagers, smiling and talking quietly to each other. She asks afetr Fanyung and is told "Ok"... Then it DAWNED on me:exclamation:... All this I think, the mother and sister being happy was because of last night??? Well that's what I want to believe...
Anyway, once everyone go to bed we are on our own for the first time since this morning...And what the guys say about them knowing things you wouldn't believe is true. I won't go any further!!!. We speak about the flight tomorrow and her mood darkens, I try to make light of it, but it's cutting me to the quick thinking about it. So we make plans for her to come to mine at 9.30 to pick me up and go up town for an hour or so.
Three hours (roughly) passes by so quickly and I tell her I have to go for a taxi, to get some sleep. Haha the little minx all she can say is "You sleep on the plane!!!", Finally I persuade her and we walk dowstaires.. We get a taxi and the routine starts, 'You promise you be back?", so again I take the lead and tell 'Don't worry, I love you". At that she is satisfied so we hug (TIGHTER than she had done before) asnd share a tender kiss.. And here I am fully awake at 04.18 China time telling you guys my sorry tale...
I [/size]really Must get some sleep...
