Author: ywong@rollins.edu

It has been less than a week since I returned home from London, but I already miss my time there so much. While I was in London, I fell in love with the city, the independence I experienced for the first time, and the friends I made in my church community while I was there….

In my first week of exploring London, I remember the greatest challenge was talking to sales associates. I wasn’t always in tourist areas and with long shifts they did not speak particularly slow. I found it initially frustrating because we both spoke the same language, but I had no idea what they were saying. When…

At a young age I started to feel as if I was standing with one foot on both sides of a cultural line. I was both too Chinese and too American to personally feel that I held claim to either. Some days this played to my advantage. I could switch languages on whim to talk…