Shared Loss

Boston's tragedy hit close to "home" for us... the young lady being honored at Fenway Park April 20th graduated from Beijing Institute of Technology last Spring.  She was living out the dream of most of the students we teach... graduate studies at a great university in the United States... she was well on her way to earning her Master of Science in Math and Statistics from Boston University.

This underscored for us the importance of what we are doing here in China!

清明节 (Qingming Festival)

Tomb Sweeping Day is a national holiday celebrated 107 days after the onset of winter (April 4 or 5, depending on whether or not it's a leap year)... it's a chance for people to visit gravesites and honor the memories of their ancestors.

Our university has given us Thursday and Friday off, the latter of which has to be made up on Sunday... some things do work a little differently here!