text: At the best of times, some of the stories I hear make me admire these people all the more. The difficulty of moving halfway across the world, oftentimes to a place with barely any other Chinese people, having to learn a new language and customs and be away from your extended family... it's all hard to fathom. While I've met plenty that have barely integrated (a woman in Guyana, holding a Guyanese passport, unable to speak anything but Chinese and needing my help talking to authorities), the majority that do, they make me aspire to be even more adaptable in life.