This is a long overdue post, I should have published it long time ago but I got distracted by boring stuff.

So I was getting married AGAIN … to the same women :). This time we were getting married in China. (Our Sudan's wedding posts can be found here). As I said at the begging this is a long overdue post, plus my memory is amazingly bad, so some details might be lost. Hopefully, Elma won’t see this last part about me forgetting our wedding’s details.

I was in China already for work. I was in a city called Nanjing, and after I finish my work I decided to go to Shanghai to meet Elma then we go together to her home for the wedding. As I pointed out in my previous post about me being spoiled, I wanted to fly from Nanjing to Shanghai, but Elma … hmm, let us just say she convinced me to take the train. I was a little bit scared to take the train alone but I thought hell yeah it will be fun. Elma’s brother-in-law booked my train ticket online, and on my departure date, I asked one of our business partners where I was working to take me to the train station and help me take my ticket.

At the station, we found that I do not have a ticket :D, of course, this would happen to me. Anyway, after long communication between Elma on the phone, the guy I dragged with me to the station and the clerk at the station, we figured out why I do not have a ticket, the reason was my full name is fucking too long and something happened when my ticket was booked. We solved this issue (and by “we” I mean Elma), and I got my ticket and I jumped on the train heading to Shanghai.

I arrived at Shanghai’s station sometime later, Elma and her sister were coming to pick me up, but they were a little bit late. I had to work at that time because there was a problem with my work at another city in China, so I sat down nearby some wall and started to work till Elma and her sister showed up.

We head back to their place in Shanghai to take a rest (and eat Mango of course), our train to Wuhan was the next day. We had to take two trains to arrive at Elma’s home in Guangshui, the first one is from Shanghai to Wuhan, and then another one from Wuhan to Guangshui.

The next day, we got up early. My stomach was hurting me, probably because I ate around 200 mangoes the previous day. Elma, her sister and myself head to the train station to took our train to Wuhan, the journey was smooth and no issues at all except that I had to stand up the whole journey because Elma’s sister did not have a seat.

After we arrived at Wuhan’s station, we ran to catch our next train to Guangshui. This time I was surprised, the train looks like 100 decades old and there were a lot of people. Anyhow, I also stand up again, but it was fine with me, half the people were staring of course, and also it was fine. There were two women giggling and staring, suddenly one of them got up from her seat and walked near me and then she pretended -or not- to fall down and grabbed me from a sensitive area, which was not fine :@. Aside from being sexually harassed, the journey was also smooth, but we were so tired when we arrive at Guangshui.

We took a few days to rest till my parents arrive, I spent most of the time of course eating mangoes

My parents and one of my best friends – The big head Mozafar also know as Kabaros- were coming to the wedding. My parents were flying from Sudan and my Mozafar was flying from England. Mozafar arrived in China and stayed in Shanghai for a couple of days, before he came to Guangshui, my parents on the other hand fly directly to Wuhan and then Elma’s father picked them up from the airport and took them home.

I – and half of China- was surprised to see Mozafar, or to be precise to see his hair. I think after you see the following photo you will know why.

One of my father’s friends who is living in China, called me and introduce himself and told me that he wanted to attend the wedding. His name was Gaffar, he is a very cool dude.

I was very happy to see my parents again and to see Mozafar whom I did not see for a very long time, I think it was over 6 years since I saw him last. We talked for a long time that day and then we head back to our hotel room to take a rest and prepare for the wedding. I was excited to see the wedding traditions in China. The wedding starts early from the morning till dinner time. It was interesting to see such traditions. However, Elma told me this ceremony (the brides family ceremony)  usually just gathering and exchange congrats while the groom’s ceremony is different, but sadly I did not have a chance to see the groom’s ceremony of course.

After the wedding, my parents and Mozafar head to Beijing with Gaffar. I stayed behind with Elma because we needed to get our marriage certificate .. again :). This time happily no need to go the court.

We had to go to Wuhan to get our marriage certificate, so Elma and I got up at 4 a.m to catch the bus at 6 a.m, we were so sleepy but we had to finish this certificate thing because we needed it for Elma to come back to Korea. After we arrived at the station we found that the bus just left, and the second bus will leave after a while. Elma was bored and suggested we go to another bus station to take the bus since we are going to wait anyway, so we decided to walk to the other station ….. a big mistake.

We found that the bus station was not as near as we thought, we were walking for almost 45 minutes and suddenly we found that the bus departure time is so soon, so we started to run, we ran for a very long time, Elma was running so fast that I was not able to catch her after a while and I started to feel I will get lost soon. Finally, we arrived at the station just in time …. we found out that the bus is the same bus that Elma decided not to take at the first station. :(. We just ran for an hour for nothing, we could have simply waited inside the bus till the departure time.

We got on the bus, I wanted to sleep but no way. The driver was amazingly noisy and behind us, there was a very smelly passenger who was snoring all the way to Wuhan.

After we arrived in Wuhan, we head to the place where we should make our marriage certificate, they asked us to take a photo, me and Elma together in one photo. At that time I did not know that this photo will be used for the marriage certificate, I was so sleepy and my mind was almost shut down. Every time I and Elma look at our marriage certificate we laugh so much, the photo looks like two people who hate each other or a wanted poster photo.

We got our marriage certificate after paying the fees, and we were legally married in China.