Family is what you make it, Part 2

At around 4:00, I got a call from a Chinese student I hadn’t met before. She said her name was “Lindsay,” and she was calling because two Olympic volunteers from another university had cancelled dinner with one of the Renmin University professors. She seemed a bit frantic. His name is Dr. [...]

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I got up early today because I had to do what seemed like a million important things before I got to the hardest task.
Among my priorities was grading the weekly summaries of activities, which we require from our Olympic interns. Greg and I had also received tickets from BOCOG for Track & Field on August [...]

Lost in Translation (a play)

Time: This morning
Setting: At the door of our guest hotel, the security guard and I exchange high-fives, something we do every time I leave or return to the campus at Renmin University of China.
Then, he stops me…(and the play begins)
Him: (In halting English) “I think…you…look…very…beautiful…today.”
Me: (also, as it turns out, in halting English) “Uh, uh, [...]