SST connections after 33 years

 

While in Chengdu an SSTer connected with someone his mother had met on China SST thirty-three years earlier! Lei Shenghua was an undergraduate student at Sichuan Normal University in 1981 when she became friends with that year’s SST group, and especially with a member of the group named Gail. The two friends reconnected in 2007 via the internet. When Ms. Lei learned that Gail’s son would be part of the 2014 China SST group she was determined to meet him. Ms. Lei is now an English professor at Jiangsu University, in the city of Zhenjiang, not far from Shanghai on China’s east coast, but this summer she was back in Chengdu visiting friends and made arrangements to meet Jacob when the SSTers were in Chengdu. Thirty-three years later, a China SST friendship was reconnected.