heels

as i was walking to school the other day, in my lovely black heels and stockings under jeans, i thought this might be a good topic to right about. i don't know about other cities or what not, but in this city, ladies.. uh.. women (more on this later) like to wear heels and dresses. at home, where i'm extremely comfortable in jeans, capris, sometimes skirts, i'd never wear dresses, nor have i yet bought any here. i will near the end of my stay. i actually think they are quite endearing. i mean, most of the dresses i would not wear at home. they're kinda really girly and i'm a bolder girl. i think. but yes, dresses and heels. no matter the function. teaching, the female teachers are all in heels, and mostly dresses, or at least skirts. some in soft pastelly colours, some the generic pink, red, blue-green, green that come for all dresses and fashionable wear. i love the shoes they have here. which reminds me.

their fricken market is huge. china is the place of product. everything is majorly cheap compared to canada, of course. but they have tonnes here. if you have been to warehouse, think of a warehouse times like, 8 or even 10, with many floors, of course. i remember the first day i was in my first chinese supermarket. i was in beijing with hongmei. the thing with the supermarkets is that everything tantalizes you. there is just so much. you get flabberghasted by the amount of merchandise, you totally get visually lost and really forget why you are there in the first place. apparently this happens when you are in a market that is not in your own country. just, everything is completely different. like every box, every package in the shop is different than your no frills, your loblaws.. hahaha.. or other..

so yes, the heels i wore. they're quite low, and i really like them. i wore stockings with them that day. they made me blister. i only walked to school, then took the bus home after being stood up by a friend (*cry). i could have walked to the market if i felt more better in my shoes. nonetheless, i really like heels now. i mean, i like them better. and dresses. i'm going to buy some before i return. i do want to be a girl, though a comfortable girl..

oh yeah.. "women." women here don't like to be called a "woman" here. it means that they are old, married, and something else i'm sure. i find that fact so strange. they all want to be called "girls" or "ladies." well, then.. okay.