China Segment

Well we finally sent the immigration package to Canada… which is why I haven’t been posting here. It’s been like 6 weeks with this stuff. Reading the guides, getting documents, getting said documents translated or notarized. It really is intense for something that is basically just paperwork.
Rachel is immigrating to Canada with [...]

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After being in Jiangxi for a few days my wife had a confession to make.
“I didn’t really have a good time because I wasn’t me. I was just the foreigner’s wife.”
Rachel, it appears, had lost her identity. The locals who were our hosts mostly paid attention to me, wanted me to drink with [...]

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Check it out - Western women are not the only ones who take the veil on their wedding day.   Chinese women traditionally wear veils too - red ones, and they’re much tougher to see out of.
Pictured above, myself and my bride, Rachel, as our host leads us into the banquet hall.  Chinese weddings are really [...]

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My best man, Aric, doing the robot for a good cause.
In China, the groom and his men (male relatives and best men) pick up the bride to take her to the groom’s family home or their new apartment. In our case, since my family doesn’t live in China, we were taking Rachel, my bride, [...]

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In China, money goes far.
Ceremony and ritual go even further.
At our wedding in Shanghai, Rachel’s aunt prepped me outside the apartment for how to give hongbaos (read: bribe) to Rachel’s family members inside. She had kindly gone to the bank for me to get crisp 20 RMB notes - yes, her family was kind [...]

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Yes, it’s true… I got married in China.
I managed to find myself a wonderful girl, named Fang Lian, or Rachel, as I call her. She has been more than just my great love, she has been my window into her family, her culture and this beautiful country. Despite my constant complaints, living in [...]

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