Chapter 45 Dating - Renting a Boy/Girlfriend Here in the US, dating is a very common thing. We will find someone sometime, it might be in middle school, high school or later. If we don’t have someone during those years, we may feel left out because others have someone. We ask someone to go out but are turned down and sometimes when we are rejected, we may have a tendency to wonder what is wrong with us and why can’t we find someone. Or we may not be interested in anyone or we don’t want someone at this time in our life. Also, we might be too shy. Whatever the reason. In China, it is different. School is priority. When I was in China the first time, 2002-2004, it was frowned upon for high school students to have a boy/girlfriend. The parents didn’t want their son or daughter to be dating someone. Even the teachers at school try to stop it. I remember one time that one of my female students told me that if a boy and a girl were walking out of the school together, a teacher would try...
Rick Mundt (1950-2024) lived in the La Crosse WI area and spent 5 years in China teaching English at Luoyang Foreign Language Schools. He embraced the opportunity to meet people and learn about the culture. After his return, Rick worked on a journal with 9000 photos of his experience. With over 150 chapters, we will share weekly his experiences and the friendships he made.