Half Way through Grace's China Trip

Grace has been to China for 20 days today.  This is the second time she is away from home for more than a couple of days.  A couple years ago, she was with a leadership program, a kind of summer camp for high school students for fiver days in Boston.  This time she is on the other side of the globe.  She is there with her aunts, uncles, and many cousins.  She is mostly having fun.

This is the last summer before she goes to college.  The main reason for this China trip was for her to help Alun, one of her cousins,  with his English.   Alun just graduated from college and plans to come US for a graduate degree.  It turned out he just got girl friend several month ago, and was not in the mood to learn English.  Luckily, Grace has many cousins.  She flew from south to north of China to spend some fun time with families from her Mom's side.

We had a nice chat with her through Skype.  I remind her that several years ago she stopped by my office and wrote this message on my whiteboard.  It's still here.  I just took a picture, as shown below.  Grace has been very sweet recently.  She has matured greatly for past several months.  She used to get upset with me and stopped talking to me for several days a time.  I keep this message on my whiteboard just to remind me she loves her Dad always.   And she does.