Question raised...

Today I had a really busy day by my standards. I had my interpreting job to go to and then after that it was over to watch Match Day at the medical school. The feeling that I had while watching the event was eye-opening if I were to put it into a word. For some reason I kept seeing myself walking up and reading my own letter of where I was accepted to. Even though I tried I could not hold back from telling Mai about what I wanted to do and if I were in their shoes...things like that. I wish.
One part of the match was really romantic. One of the medical students proposed to his girlfriend when she went up with him. He had her read his match for him and all of a sudden she just said "yes". He filled in the blank by saying "I asked her to marry me". Than she just started crying and he hugged her and they both made their way down the steps together w/o reading his match. All I wanted to know was where did he end up? They got a standing olvation for that.
I met with Michael again for the first time since I came back from China in the end of October. For some reason I feel like he has been avoiding me recently. We went together to my ex-Chinese teacher's home for dumplings. I made Michael take us to a place so we could buy a gift per the tradition of it being rude to go to someone's home empty handed. My question is...Do you think it is rude to make the guest take back home the gift that they brought for a party? She told us that she did not drink wine that much and so would not accept our gifts. I felt kind of offended though...
For some reason I felt like a heavy set of handcuffs were set on me the day that I married Zhen. Even though he is the same person and allows me as much freedom as I feel comfortable with...everyone else is different. Almost all my guy friends treat me differently now. They see me as taken meat and they can not even talk to me safely without hurting themselves it seems. I'm kind of sad that I can not be friends with these guys now.