{"id":1184,"date":"2017-07-02T11:19:37","date_gmt":"2017-07-02T03:19:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mentorship.hku.hk\/daao\/\/?p=1184"},"modified":"2017-08-25T17:15:39","modified_gmt":"2017-08-25T09:15:39","slug":"washington-dc-comparing-observations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mentorship.hku.hk\/daao\/index.php\/2017\/07\/02\/washington-dc-comparing-observations\/","title":{"rendered":"[Washington, DC] Comparing observations"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><span style=\"color: #ff9900;\"><strong><div class=\"column one\">Comparing observations<\/div>\n<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1185 alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mentorship.hku.hk\/daao\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/R_Andrea-Saturno-Sanjana_May-2017.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"615\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mentorship.hku.hk\/daao\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/R_Andrea-Saturno-Sanjana_May-2017.jpg 2876w, https:\/\/www.mentorship.hku.hk\/daao\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/R_Andrea-Saturno-Sanjana_May-2017-300x195.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.mentorship.hku.hk\/daao\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/R_Andrea-Saturno-Sanjana_May-2017-768x500.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.mentorship.hku.hk\/daao\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/R_Andrea-Saturno-Sanjana_May-2017-1024x666.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.mentorship.hku.hk\/daao\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/R_Andrea-Saturno-Sanjana_May-2017-224x146.jpg 224w, https:\/\/www.mentorship.hku.hk\/daao\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/R_Andrea-Saturno-Sanjana_May-2017-50x33.jpg 50w, https:\/\/www.mentorship.hku.hk\/daao\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/R_Andrea-Saturno-Sanjana_May-2017-115x75.jpg 115w, https:\/\/www.mentorship.hku.hk\/daao\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/R_Andrea-Saturno-Sanjana_May-2017-738x480.jpg 738w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 615px) 100vw, 615px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; color: black;\">Washington, DC mentees Serena\u00a0Wang (BEng(IETM) Year 3) and\u00a0Charlie Bai (BEcon&amp;Fin Year 3), and their mentor Mrs Andrea Saturno-Sanjana enjoyed sampling the menu at the\u00a0new Da Hong Pao Restaurant\u00a0in the bustling and trendy 14th Street Corridor.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Since Charlie was attending the University of Maryland, a traditional, large US campus, and Serena was attending The George Washington University, an urban campus in the heart of the city only a few blocks from the White House, the students were able to compare notes. Serena and Charlie have also travelled widely throughout the US and were pleased to share\u00a0their observations and experiences.\u00a0Charlie presented Andrea with an elegant pin marking the 20th anniversary of the HKU Mentorship Programme.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy <span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';\">mentor Andrea is very gentle and friendly. She and her husband introduced us to some American tourist attractions, and US culture and society, and shared their views on the development of Hong Kong and the States, which was very useful for understanding the country and the local people,\u201d Charlie said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Mentor in\u00a0<span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; color: black;\">Washington, DC<\/span>, USA since 2014: Mrs Andrea Saturno-Sanjana<br \/>\nOutgoing Exchange Mentees (2016-17): <span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; color: black;\"> Serena\u00a0Wang<\/span> and <span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; color: black;\">Charlie Bai <\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington, DC mentees Serena\u00a0Wang (BEng(IETM) Year 3) and\u00a0Charlie Bai (BEcon&amp;Fin Year 3), and their mentor Mrs Andrea Saturno-Sanjana enjoyed sampling the menu at the\u00a0new Da Hong Pao Restaurant\u00a0in the bustling and trendy 14th Street Corridor. Since Charlie was attending the University of Maryland, a traditional, large US campus, and Serena<span class=\"excerpt-hellip\"> [\u2026]<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1185,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mentorship.hku.hk\/daao\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1184","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mentorship.hku.hk\/daao\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mentorship.hku.hk\/daao\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mentorship.hku.hk\/daao\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mentorship.hku.hk\/daao\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1184"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.mentorship.hku.hk\/daao\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1184\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1592,"href":"https:\/\/www.mentorship.hku.hk\/daao\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1184\/revisions\/1592"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mentorship.hku.hk\/daao\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1185"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mentorship.hku.hk\/daao\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mentorship.hku.hk\/daao\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mentorship.hku.hk\/daao\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}