migration

All the Homes

My home is a beautiful place, it is surrounded by tall green trees, it has hundreds little paths, and thousands of people have walked them before me. My home is a horrible place, it is surrounded by tall cold walls, it has hundreds of long arms, and it wants to catch thousands of us.

There is no fortune cookie in China

American talk show actor Trevor Noah once said that he thought fortune cookies were made in the kitchen by an Asian chef who knew fortune telling. However, when he came to Beijing, he discovered that there was no such thing in China!

exotic terrestrial

I would always find it unsettling whenever someone would describe me as "exotic." But I would just laugh it off and blame it on a lack of creativity. However, I finally got what the word meant when I myself had a brush with the "exotic," in a cold, mostly blonde, predominantly white country in Northern Europe.