Dear Memorial-Spaulding Community, Ni hou from Beijing! I want you all to know I am safe and sound here. The weather is cold and crisp, and though we see news of big storms elsewhere in China (it looks just like any week in December in Boston) there is no snow here. The air is clear and sunny with no sign of air pollution. My host family is very good to me. I have my own room and bathroom. The father is Dai Guijiang, the mother is Chen Fengyan, and the daughter, who is 15 years old, is Dai Chenchun. The parents work in the Beijing People's Art Theater. He is the costume designer and she is in set design. (How cool is that?!) Chenchun will come to Newton on this exchange in September. They speak enough
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