Author Archives: Rachel

“When you travel, remember that a foreign country is not designed to make you comfortable. It is designed to make its own people comfortable.” – Clifton Fadiman Tonight, I was having a farewell dinner with my flatmates and a few other friends who have been living with me for the past year and many of them […]

  When I travel and stay with host families, my duties not only include participating in host families’ activities, having good manners, and learning about their culture, but also teaching them about my own culture.  One of my goals when traveling is to teach them information that they could never learn in classroom and/or from […]

My aunt who reads my blog and saw the entry about Sophia’s dream to open a cafe and bakery, suggested that the cafe and bakery could be named “Good Fortune.”  This brought up a very interesting subject as the word, “Fortune” was mentioned. Well, I have to break the news.  Fortune cookies are rare in […]

It took one family feud, a divorce, and a remarriage for us to find a hidden treasure box filled with much happiness, humor and fun.  We found the treasure box last October when one relative had a second wedding that reunited many family members together after having had little communication for years. Shortly after my […]

I introduced Sophia to a traditional American dessert that is beloved by many in the United States, brownies.  While many of us normally would pick up a Betty Crocker or Duncan Hines box of brownie mix from a grocery store in the US, I made the brownies from scratch.  Betty Crocker and Duncan Hines do […]

The most important trip you may take in life is meeting people halfway. ~Henry Boye Once upon a time there was a woman from the US, the most powerful country today, and a woman from China, a country that is going to be powerful in this century.  The woman from China, Sophia, began her journey […]