Super Woman Adventures

My blog is back! I don’t know how long it will last. The firewall might close it tomorrow! Fingers crossed that is not the case.

So much to report from my last post! I will try to keep it brief (haha…as if).

Christmas - Had a million and one people over from Dad’s side of the family for the weeks around Christmas time. It was so so nice to have everyone together. We ate lots, drank lots and sat up till late catching up and telling stories. The only down side to this was that I hadn’t seen my immediate family for four and half months and they we were all busy entertaining the whole time. I felt a little sad having to come back to China after only 10 days in Oz. I’ll be back in July for a good 3 weeks though…101 days and counting!

Chinese New Year – I was fortunate enough to bring back a little extra luggage with me on the plane…Reeds! I was generous enough to let him share my apartment and I even let him have some wardrobe space! After a few crazy weeks back at work it was time for holidays again! This time Chinese New Year. I had bought Reeds and I tickets to Beijing for his Christmas present. I don’t think I’ve ever felt so cold in my life! I was dressed in at least four layers of clothing and had big hiking boots on but still I thought I was literally going to freeze to death! Somehow I became disgustingly sick and spent most of the daytime pushing to see things and the nighttime was spent sleeping as much as I could.

Despite all the negativity, I really enjoyed Beijing. It is still clean from the Olympics, very well organised, and has that wonderful blend of old meets new. The Great Wall was particularly spectacular. Particularly given the proposal at the top of the wall! Yes, that’s right, Super Woman is engaged!

Reeds will tell the story completely differently but here’s my account. We began scaling the wall, aware that we had 1.5hrs (more than enough time I assure you), so there was no need to rush. I was in such awe of the place, I just wanted to soak it in and stroll at an easy pace. Too bad for me though, Reeds bolted! I could not keep up, I kept trying to get him to slow down but he wouldn’t. So of course Super Woman was not a happy camper! What ever happened to stopping to smell the roses?

By the time we reached the top of the wall I was very grumpy. I walked straight past Reeds without looking at him…how dare he leave me to be lapped by 3 year olds! He called my name once, I ignored. Called my name again, again I ignored, called my name a third time, I turned around, looked him in the eye and said…. “WHAT???”

That’s when he proposed! haha… that certainly blew the wind out of my sail! Reeds had been carrying my beautiful ring around since we had arrived in China. He spoke to me in Chinese, Spanish and English and even got down on one knee! I didn’t think he had such romanticism in him! I began to cry (typical girl) and was crying so much I forgot to give an answer! Finally Reeds said “please say yes”….hahahaha. I guess a bit of suspense never hurt anyone!

So Beijing was great great great!!!

Paul Van Dyke – I still cannot believe we got tickets to see Paul Van Dyke. Noone else here in Shanghai seemed to care but Reeds and I were over the moon! We danced all night (well until 1am anyway…we are nearing 30) and had a great time listening to one of the kings of the DJ world. Chinese clubs are hilarious! We walked in and I thought the bar tenders were making lots of cocktails because I could hear ice in a shaker all over the place…but where was the sound coming from??? Oh wait hang on…no cocktails, people are drinking non-descript liquids out of test tubes and the sound is dice shaking in a cup…why on earth would you go to a club to play dice???? Astounding. My next wish is to see Sarah Brightman. It will be quite different to PVD I’m sure!

Sad News - Reeds and I have just been unnaturally split from each other. Poor Reeds couldn’t get work in Shanghai. The market is terrible at the moment. So we had to make the very difficult decision to live in different countries for the next couple of years. It’s still very raw and hurts like hell so I won’t elaborate too much. We are confident we will get through and I will try to get home to Oz as much as possible…I’d still like some visitors though! Noone wants to come visit me???

Furthering my Education - I’m starting to wonder if this is a good idea…I have begun my Masters Degree in Education, majoring in Curiculum and Pedagogy…I’m in Week 3 and already stressing out! Procrastination is like riding a bike really isn’t it? You never really forget how to do it.

That’s it for now…sorry that was so long, I will endeavour to post more frequently in the future.

Have a wonderful week everyone! xxx

Ciao