![]() My maternal grandmother’s family were Mennonites (which shares many similarities with the Amish). I’ve been interested in the Amish for a long time. We are fascinated by the many ways of living and paths people take in the world. We’ve been blessed to have opportunities to travel, but we are not missionaries. Barry, a counselor, and I, an English teacher, love to travel. Hi Angie: Thanks for your questions – and sorry for the long delay to respond. Welcome to our blog! Aloha and Zài Jiàn, Renée and Barry visiting family, friends and Servas hosts as we traveled home to Maui. Between our stays in China, Barry and I have been on the Mainland U.S. You can also look back to our earliest entry to see what we experienced in Oaxaca, Mexico, in 2006 during the mainly peaceful six months of protest until the Mexican government sent in the troops. Among others, you can find instructions on how to fry cicadas from one of my ZAFU students and how to make chocolate-Kahlua waffles from my brother Mike in Gainesville. Did you know that now Chinese girls, at least the ones who go to university, for the most part feel they are luckier than the Chinese boys? Did you know that Shanghai saved over 20,000 European Jews during WWII? Do you know how Chinese university students would deal with problems that come up in Dear Abby letters? What's it like to be on the Great Wall of China? Do you know how many Chinese girls had their feet bound and why? And we have recipes from many of the places we've visited. Then in February 2012, we returned to teach this time at our other sister school, Shanghai Normal University, in a city of over 21 million people. From August 2010 to July 2011, my husband, Barry Kristel, and I were at our University of Hawaii Maui College sister school, Zhejiang Agriculture and Forestry University in Lin'an, China, a city considered rural because it has only 500,000 people! We had a wonderful time. Our blog was begun as a way to share our experiences in China.
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