Ah! I forgot to mention! I met someone from Kent State in the Tokyo Airport! All the Chinese people I know from Kent State, I met through strange coincidences.

- Wang Ling: She is a ceramics graduate student at Kent State, and was at a ceramics convention in Louisville. She happened to have lunch at my parents' restaurant, and my mom struck up a conversation with her. My mom asked if she was a student and what school she went to, and after Wang Ling said Kent State, my mom goes, "Oh! My daughter goes there too!" So my mom gave her ALL my contact info because she's insane, and it turns out that she lived right next door to me. Weird, huh? Unfortunately we met just a month or so before the end of school, and now she's graduated :(

- Linda: I met her through Wang Ling, and it turns out that she was going back to Taiwan the same day that my mom and I were! But for some reason she didn't make her plane or it was delayed or something, and she went from Kent to Seattle to Houston to Tokyo, stayed overnight, and then made it to Taiwan. Sounds awful. But we met up in Taipei and she took me to a basketball game ^_^

- Trudy: When we arrived in Tokyo, as we were getting off the plane, I saw a girl with a really shiny shirt, and since I'm apparently drawn to shiny things, I looked at it. And it was a Kent State shirt (one I meant to buy a long time ago)! But we were getting off the plane, and I had no idea if she was staying in Tokyo or what. Turns out she was also on her way to Taiwan, and we ended up sitting next to her at the gate. My mom struck up a conversation with her (because I'm too shy to talk to Chinese people) and we exchanged info again.

I wonder if I'm going to meet any Kent Staters in China?