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The city of Linden, New Jersey, opened its celebration of Asian American Pacific Islander Month with Impressions of Fujian, a cultural program.
Students from Linden who took part in a successful exchange program with the East China province fondly recalled their visits.
The link from Linden — which is about 22 miles southwest of New York City — to Fujian goes back to 2009, when then-Linden school district superintendent Dr Rocco Tomazic led a group of Linden High School (LHS) students on an exchange program to Xiamen.
The objective was to have Linden students take Mandarin Chinese courses and learn in ways they couldn't in their own classrooms. The program was a success, as Linden since has sent students to China and also hosted teachers and students from Fujian.
In his opening remarks at the May 14 ceremony, Linden Mayor Derek Armstead said: "Today we celebrate the generations of Asian and Pacific Islanders who have come to America and enriched America's history. They are a vital part of America's future success. In our ceremony, we honor their achievements and contributions.
"We have our own students who took the challenge and traveled to Fujian province to immerse themselves in another culture. We have the voices of educators who learned from their experiences, supervised our students, took the measure of a different educational system and found ways to give back and leave part of ourselves where we visited," Armstead said.
Perle Desir, a former LHS student, shared her experiences in Fujian on the exchange program in 2013.
"It was in Xiamen that I learned how to make my first dumpling, took my first calligraphy class and experienced my first-ever live kabuki-style theatre, which blew my mind. And it was in Fuzhou that I saw my very first pandas, experienced my first natural hot spring and walked my first Chinese market," she recalled.
"To this day, despite traveling to most of Europe, America and the Caribbean, whenever I mention visiting China in my youth, people are intrigued. That is to me the magic of China, and I truly hope more students get to experience it," she said.
Yelena Horre, principal of Linden High School, vividly remembered her trip to Fuzhou, the capital city of Fujian province, when she was invited by Fuzhou High School No 3 to join in the school's 75th anniversary celebration.
"A visit to the supermarket was definitely eye-opening. It looked very different than ShopRite (an American supermarket). Everything was so fresh. So fresh in fact that fish were in open aquariums. While I was perusing the unique feel of the market, a huge fish leaped out of the tank and began flopping vigorously on the floor. I will tell you that I almost leapt right into Doctor Tomaic's arms! I was so frightened. He had a pretty good laugh."
Antoinette Modrak, former LHS principal, said her heart is full from the experience of bringing students to China as an administrator. The stops in 2013 included Beijing, Hong Kong, Xiamen and Fuzhou.
"The opportunity I had while staying at the school dormitories and being with families not only gave me more appreciation of the people of China but our own students as well. Our group has a saying, 'We will always have China.'
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