A few good ... and also... a few bad ones, too.
Yesterday night, as Liyan told me, we met her friends, some from her company, and Kiki and Kiki's boyfriend, too. They were very happy to meet me, and to talk with me, even if their english was as good as my chinese can be. Well, no... maybe my chinese is a little bit better, I don't know but I could say a few sentences easily.
They really liked me and saw I was a very nice guy with Liyan, caring for her, for her health too. And that it should be ok with her parents, soon...
Soon...
As we were with Liyan's friends, I felt something maybe not "good" about Liyan's parents, so I asked her to confirm if they were very happy and so on.
It seems in fact that yes, her papa is happy, but Liyan told me that her mama is still the same, related to me. Wo shi lo wei...
Liyan told me too, that her papa "agreed" to accept me in their home, because she asked him when she was at hospital. She told him that it was the 3rd time I was coming for her, and that I was very serious, so, she hoped I could be introduced to her parents. So, her papa agreed.
After tomorrow, so, we should see them.
I know I will have to be careful, because I don't want to do something wrong when meeting them.
Her papa told that he was worrying about it, and that he didn't want to see Liyan coming home with "many" boyfriends. Because related to the last one, the love went away... so, her papa says that their home is not a hotel. I can clearly understand that, because of my parents before.... ^ ^'
I know I'd give everything to make her papa sure I want to take care about Liyan, but as says Liyan, maybe the most difficult thing is to win her mama's agreement related to our love.
I must be prepared to have a lot of questions from them, I suppose it will be like "do you wish to buy a house? how big is your home? when will you come living in china? when will you give a baby to our daughter".... and so on.
I know I would feet a little bit shy at first, and that I should ask her parent's Liyan's hand, asking that in chinese, of course, but I'm scared quite a bit, if they would say no... because I think I'd then lose my face.
I talked about it to Liyan because I know anyway it is not really something easy. Maybe her parents can "accept" even a bit our love, but about wedding, it is something different. and I think that her parents would like to "test" me, to see next if I'm really a serious guy or not.
I also know that Liyan's brother talks to their mama often about us, but I don't know what can happen when I'll meet them... I only know that Liyan's papa is ok to see me and agrees about our love, now he just wants (I guess) to see if it is for real, and not any joke.
I also know that their neighbours have never seen foreigners before close to their home, so, as I should be the first one, maybe would they say many things about me and Liyan. And because of traditional parents, they would be very "confused".
That reminds me about yesterday night, when walking in the streets. We bought some "kayochoua" with Liyan and her friends, and I saw them talking to a woman, a little bit fat, and maybe about 40 years old. Then, the woman looked at me, and asked me : "hello, please, can I ask you a question : who is your girlfriend?"
I then said her it was Liyan... who became a little bit "upset".
The woman smiled, then went to talking to Liyan and her friends, then left.
A few minutes later, Liyan told me she was her boss, not her office's one, but the boss just above that one... and that, as she knew Liyan had a chinese boyfriend before, but that now, Liyan was with me, maybe her boss would like to see her today and ask how, why and many other things like that....
Liyan worried about that for 2 hours, up to we went back to hotel. I told her I was sorry but I didn't know the woman was her boss, nor that nobody told me nothing about her. Liyan then replied it wasn't my fault, but that she cared for today, to have to say why and how she was with me, and many other things...
We then talked about other things, and as we said before, we decided to check out this morning for another hotel. (RIVER SIDE HOTEL)
Today, a bit some news :
So, after the breakfast, we check out and went to another hotel, but Liyan was thinking in fact at another one, and not the RIVER SIDE HOTEL;
Well, as I told her, no matter which hotel we can be in, most important is to be together
she smiled and finally, that hotel is quite nice. We have a very nice room, and we can see the river when opening the window
We talked a bit about yesterday and about Liyan's parents, and that tomorrow, we would go and see Kiki's papa, who is waiting to see me.
I told Liyan that her friends were very nice with me, even one of them told me I was handsome (even if she's marrried.... :p)
Actually, I am reading some sentences in chinese, to improve my chinese language, so. Liyan helps me if I spell badly, but she can see I want to speak chinese with her and her friends.
I wish to be able to talk with her parents.
any more news to come later.
