Second-generation migrant workers: better educated, ambitious, expecting love

Sadness

Misty first love aborted

In 2007, Wu changed jobs. He became an attendant at a holiday resort, and this job made him at the very least, look better. During this period, Wu was tangled in a misty love story and he still cannot forget it.

Because Wu was a new attendant, he was sent to another holiday resort for training. There, he met a female attendant who was two years older than him. They soon became close, and started to call each other "big sis" and "small bro." During the training, their relationship became much closer.

On a cold and windy day in Beijing, the distance between the two hearts became shorter. On that day, Wu sent a text message to his "big sis," "It is cold outside; Put on more clothes, and don't catch a cold." After doing that, Wu felt so warm in the cold strong winds. "Maybe it was the so-called ‘love between a big sis and small bro'." The romantic Wu would picture the sweet smile of his big sis every night before sleeping, and he would also smile when thinking about the smile. The affection became stronger gradually, and Wu felt he could not live without his "big sis." Then, suddenly a message from his sis completely destroyed the sprouting love, "I am going home to get married. Sorry bro!" Wu said, "Later, I learned that her parents found a fiancé for her in her hometown."

In fact, it is not only Wu who faces such a problem. Li, a laborer at a construction site in Tongzhou District, also expressed that most migrant workers around him solved their love and marriage problem in their hometowns, and some of the workers had arranged marriages by their parents. A 57 year-old migrant worker Liu said that it is quite hard for the young ones to find love in big cities, and it is much better for them to find someone in their hometowns that their parents know deeply. "If they know each other better, their future life together will also be better."

Trying

Make a try on a blind date, an online love and even go to a matrimonial agency

"I want to find a girl, who has a keen sense and is not impulsive when facing real life to be my wife." Wu said that this is what he summarized from his past years of experiences.

Once, he "ventured" out on a blind date with a white collar worker who graduated from a junior college. The date was arranged in a fast food restaurant, a place Wu specifically chose.

It began and ended with milk tea. "When I ordered a cup of milk tea for her, the waitress unfortunately and carelessly spilt some on her. She got angry and took off her gloves making the waitress very nervous." Wu, who had been a waiter, holds her behavior in detestation, so he ended their date flatly and immediately. "I cannot bear those who look down at migrant laborers the most."

Wu is very knowledgeable in computers and he joined an msn group from the home appliance center where he works. All the people there are his fellow brothers and sisters from different cities, so he hopes to find a lover there. There was a party for singles held on December 26 for young migrant workers and among them, there was a boy named Xiao Long who is a cyber addict. However, he is only an "armchair strategist" and has never experience a love affair in real life.

Wu never goes to matchmaking agencies but many of his fellow workers have, and some of them were cheated and knocked senseless. At the matchmaking party for migrant workers at Wangjing Park, a migrant worker said angrily, "I had been to matchmaking agencies five times and was tricked five times, costing me a total of 300 yuan."