Part I Chevening and University Applications Jenny, Chinese Chevening Scholar 2022-2023, MSc Language and Intercultural Communication, University of Edinburgh Excluded from school, but never from…
A proud moment She is wearing a red knitted cotton sweater. Her right hand is shooting up in the air, the other hand hidden behind…
The eighteen-day adventure is over, I reminded myself, and it is time to go home, to go back to where I have lived my first…
Of all my childhood dreams, there is one that remains to this day most clearly from the day it hit my mind the first time.…
Into the river of people, onto one of the seven white marble bridges, through the magnificent Heavenly Peace (Tian-An-Men) and Upright (Duan-Men) Gates, past the…
Mornings in Beijing always brimmed with anticipative and adventurous vigor as opposed to repetitive and routine monotony at home. Even a frustrated Mom scurrying around…
“It is your abilities that really earn you friendship and respect, Jenny, not your disabilities – abilities to love and learn as a ‘normal’ person.”…
This is not a fantasy I am falling into, nor does it imply any attempt to copy Lewis Carrol’s writings of an imaginary world where…