Our Chinese "Son"
Jason is a third year student here who volunteered to help us settle in. He met us at the airport, took us to our apartment and showed us around the university. Later he came over and took us to the dining hall and helped us order, then showed us where we could buy groceries. When we ran out of cash, he took us to the bank and organized a Chinese account for us. Mid-Autumn Festival is a time for families to celebrate together and he came to us and said that he was away from his family for this holiday so he would like to take us to the park and we could be his family for the evening -hence our 'son'.
For centuries China stood as a leading civilization, outpacing the rest of the world in the arts and sciences, but in the 19th and early 20th centuries, the country was beset by civil unrest, major famines, military defeats, and foreign occupation. A... ... read more 
