Rizhao – Canadian Dragonfly

Unexpected Hometowns

2009/11/172016/12/09 Prof Ron Canada, China, friendship, Hanlan, Islands, photography, Rizhao, Shandong, students, Toronto, Travel

I’m in Toronto on a ferry to “The Islands,” when I see a young Chinese student with her backpack…. Hometown is Rizhao, Shandong…. My new friend in this case has left a small city which, just 20 years ago, was a non-descript fishing village on the east coast of China.