Dear Friends,
Happy New Year!
This New Year seems so special to me --
it’s the 25th anniversary of my arrival in the US for graduate
study at the end of 1986. Time flies. Please don’t tell me that I
am not young any more. I know it.
25 years ago, I came to the US with my
own American dream. I have studied and worked hard, thrived and
achieved. In 2007, I moved to Paris with my family and saw the world from
another point of view. Standing at the top of the Eiffel Tower, I
realized the world had changed. China had risen from the East. I
started to look to the east from the west, looking back to my birthplace,
Beijing, and was inspired by the new globalization.
In the last three years, I have been
engaged in sharing my native Chinese language and culture with local Americans
on the north shore of Boston. I have been very happy teaching young
children and sharing with adults. I have been amazed by mothers who see
the future of the world and encourage their children to learn Chinese language
and culture. I have been excited to see many local schools educating
their students to be the global citizens and leaders of the 21st century.
I have felt so fortunate to be able to attend exhibitions from Beijing at the
Peabody Essex Museum.
What I have seen this past year is that
businesses have started engaging with China more actively. I have trained
American expats and coached software engineers for their journeys to
Beijing. I have attended events where both Americans and Chinese shared
their ideas and stories in Sino-American economic development.
Gradually I have started to realize my
new dream -- to build bridges between Americans and Chinese to imagine,
explore, and succeed.
As we toast the New Year 2012 and get
ready to light the firecrackers for the Year of the Dragon, I look forward to
having more of my dream come true.
If you want to learn Chinese yourself,
or cultivate your children’s Chinese heritage, or simply raise them as
tomorrow’s citizens of the world, I am at your service. Panda Land also
provides consulting and services to business and organizations for their
efforts in connecting between America and China.
Please feel free to contact me if I can
be any help to your endeavor in the New Year.
Best regards,
Judy Wang Bedell
Panda Land
Chinese Lessons for
Americans - friendly, engaging, personalized.
Cross-Cultural
Education and Consulting - bridging the gap in a personal way.
