So, I have only been to one wedding in my life, which was of a teacher from the school I taught at on my gap year, who I didn't even know, and had never spoken to in my life. The Chinese wedding was a lavish affair, with glitter spray in the brides hair, and a fluffy bolero over her diamonte encrusted poofy dress. The wedding reception had maybe around 300people invited? This Friday, the Royal wedding in England between Prince William and Kate Middleton was screened to 2million people around the world, how scary is that?! I can't deny how much I've been looking forward to seeing it! Maybe it's because I've been in China for 8 months now and I'm missing blighty, but I like to think it's more being a romantic at heart, because the couple seem geuinely in love, and sooo sweet. Me and some Leeds friends went to O'Malleys (the famous Irish pub here, the English pub had no event, wasn't even open strangely enough...) and celebrated watching it on the big screen drinking pimms and having chips and pizza. Starting the pimms at about 4am gave me a headache by 11pm though! This kind of event is so rare back at home, and always so much fun because it kind of brings everyone together. I truely loved every minute of the wedding, including the dresses and kisses on the balcony. Awww.. ♥♥♥
Me and Chris with our super cool flag!
The crowds at O'Malleys
A bit later on..
Leeds Students ♥
On Saturday, I met up with Ben and we had some amazing XiaoLongBao (traditional Shanghaiese dumplings) near People's Square. Then we went to the pet market (his fave place!) and he purchased several cool little fishies. Opposite the market is an antiques/general chinese crap market, which looked interesting, so we went to check it out. It had lots of cool stuff which I don't need, but really wanted.
Like this cool buddha, who wouldn't want that!?
And Ben buying fishies
Some essential creepy dolls
Lonely Kitty Cat
Jess xxxxx
