Dana came to China mid February, and against all hopes and worries on both sides it turned out to be a wonderful experience for both of us. In the beginning, it took Dana a lot of getting used to. Since I've been here for half a year already, speak the language almost fluently and have an affinity to the culture anyway, it was already an interesting viewpoint I was coming from seeing my own mother in such a new situation. As we have always been very close and have always lived in the same world, I tried to overcome this dissorientating new situation by pushing her to integrate herself into the culture in a high speed version of 2 weeks. And she had a shock reaction to all of this: to me having changed so much, to my expectations on her behaviour, and especially to the way people drive here.