First notebook entry: Introducing myself

你好!
我叫的名字是 Brady还也是布雷迪。我是美国人。现在我学习汉语。我喜欢很多运动。我能说英语也会说点儿法语有点儿。

First Bride in My Class

Last week, I took part in a wedding ceremony of my college classmate. She as the first one getting married among all of my peer friends. On that day, I , with some other girlfriends got there earily to pick up the bride from a makeup sore where she finished her bride make up .Then we sent her back to her house waiting for the groom.
The moment we reached the house, we were asked to have 5 fish balls and an egg as a blessing to the couple, the egg represented for peace and safety, while the fish balls represented for having a bunch of offsprings. The problem was the fish balls were so greasy and I just finished my breakfast. But I ate them anyway because I didn’t wanna be rude. The moment I finished them I felt nothing but nauseated.
It was not until I saw a group of best men did I know that we , all the girls who kept the bride company , were a group of bridesmaids and our job was to play prank on the groom so as to make him look or act ridiculous. However, I’ve never come across such a situation before because we are from different cities and our traditional rituals are so different. Not to mention that it was the very first experience of being a bridesmaid, and so it was for my other girlfriends. Not that we don’t like messing up with each other, we enjoy playing tricks , but only in private, when facing so many strangers, we couldn’t help but freaking out. All I wanted was letting the whole prank thing go by as soon as possible. Anyway, this process turned out as boring as I expected, but not our fault, the groom should’ve be blamed for not cooperating at all. He was too shy to lose face, as a result, he refused every request by the bridesmaids such as singing a song to express his love, writing the chinese character of love using his butt, pole dancing with a broom handle, and the like. The only thing he agreed to do was kissing the bride while spinning around with all the audience clapping, and they could not stop until the claps stopped.
After that were some other rituals like the new couple paying respect to the ancestries, bowing ,kowtowing and giving thanks to their parents and grandparents. It was all proceeded using their dialect, so I had no idea what they were saying….
Anyway, this was the most strange wedding I’ve ever participated in , though it was exhausting I felt thrilled for the newly married couple. I wish them had a happy life together ever after.

First wedding of my classmates

Last week, I took part in a wedding ceremony of my college classmate. She was the first one getting married among all of my peer friends. On that day, I , with some other girlfriends got there earily to pick up the bride from a makeup store where she finished her bride make up .Then we sent her back to her house waiting for the groom.
The moment we reached the house, we were asked to have 5 fish balls and an egg as a blessing to the couple, the egg represented for peace and safety, while the fish balls represented for having a bunch of offsprings. The problem was the fish balls were so greasy and I just finished my breakfast. But I ate them anyway because I didn’t wanna be rude. The moment I finished them I felt nothing but nauseated.
It was not until I saw a group of best men did I know that we , all the girls who kept the bride company , were a group of bridesmaids and our job was to play prank on the groom so as to make him look or act ridiculous. However, I’ve never come across such a situation before because we are from different cities and our traditional rituals are so different. Not to mention that it was the very first experience of being a bridesmaid, and so it was for my other girlfriends. Not that we don’t like messing up with each other, we enjoy playing tricks , but only in private, when facing so many strangers, we couldn’t help but freaking out. All I wanted was letting the whole prank thing go by as soon as possible. Anyway, this process turned out as boring as I expected, but not our fault, the groom should’ve be blamed for not cooperating at all. He was too shy to lose face, as a result, he refused every request by the bridesmaids such as singing a song to express his love, writing the chinese character of love using his butt, pole dancing with a broom handle, and the like. The only thing he agreed to do was kissing the bride while spinning around with all the audience clapping, and they could not stop until the claps stopped.
After that were some other rituals like the new couple paying respect to the ancestries, bowing ,kowtowing and giving thanks to their parents and grandparents. It was all proceeded using their dialect, so I had no idea what they were saying….
Anyway, this was the most strange wedding I’ve ever participated in , though it was exhausting I felt thrilled for the newly married couple. I wish them had a happy life together ever after.