Being a minority was definitely a huge change for me. Having light skin and obvious western characteristics (although some of my students thought I was Chinese for some unknown reason), I stuck out in the Han dominated China. Here in the melting pot that is the United States, all ethnicities and cultures are represented—maybe not equally, but still present within our multicultural landscape. So the experiences I had in China, concerning my apparent ‘whiteness’, is ultimately unique to this generally one ethnicity country. When I initially stepped off the plane from Newark to Beijing, culture-shock set in immediately. The airport was filled with thousands of people, of the same ethnicity, stopping and staring at us with intense curiosity. While the trip progressed, people would ask to take photos with us like we were celebrities. Every time we would try and take a group photo, people would just start taking photos of us and not just a few people, but an overwhelming amount. There was a time when this started to become frustrating—when we were in Guilin one of my student’s friends kept taking photos of us every five seconds. I’m sure there are hundreds of photos online somewhere of me slurping up mí fěn (a local Guilin noodle dish) and almost falling on the bus. I could not go anywhere without stares, sometimes laughter, and photos which hindered me from some activities such as just simply people watching discretely in a park. Overall, my experience of being a minority in China was positive, which is not usually the case when it comes to being a marginal population. It would be interesting to study more on Chinese minorities such as the Hui people and understand their day to day lives in the Han dominated China compared to my experience. There are probably a lot of differences between western ethnicities and actual Chinese minorities, especially in western obsessed China.