Conversation through Time Tunnel

That year I was 25 years old travelled in U.K. and visited the Great Britain Museum in London; in the meantime taking course in a private language institution.

In the classroom we talked about the collection inside the Great Britain Museum, which I shared my view, sort of teasing British, after visited the museum about Chinese as visitors like me should take back those collection that British steal from China during WWI. The air was frozen after this thought came out of my mouth, I mutely encountered her staring to my opinion in that classroom, at that point, no one really understand or care of what I am talking about with the room full of foreign students.

I still remembered today that teacher's eyes looked at me with despairing of my opinion while the snow silently and beautifully dropped and flew in the air. In deed, Taiwan and China are truly poor at that time, don't have anything to be compared with the land she stands on.

Now 2008, I have oddly turned to become a mid aged American citizen; while I travelled in China during 2001-2005 standing on the toppest of the building in Shanghai and many cities I travelled and amazed the light speed rapid changes with reconstruction project going on wiped out 5 streets at a time within 2 years revisited the same place. I seem seeing the magic wand waving through the sky and wherever magic dust drop, the old and torn buildings vanished and replaced with new and shining high skyrises everywhere.

I think I don't need to talk to that British teacher about what changed I have seen in these two places that this world think people over there should not have voice to be heard, and just truly hope that she, as an citizen of Great Britain, can watch day after day the changes happened in both Taiwan and China under God's ruling and wishing one day she will understand how a person felt when their voice is ignored.