{"id":2330,"date":"2018-01-19T14:40:53","date_gmt":"2018-01-19T06:40:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mentorship.hku.hk\/daao\/?p=2330"},"modified":"2018-01-19T15:09:53","modified_gmt":"2018-01-19T07:09:53","slug":"illinois-good-bye-my-friends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mentorship.hku.hk\/daao\/index.php\/2018\/01\/19\/illinois-good-bye-my-friends\/","title":{"rendered":"[Illinois] Good-bye, my friends"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong><div class=\"column one\"><\/strong><\/span><\/span><strong><span style=\"color: #ff9900;\"> Good-bye, my friends<\/span><\/strong> <span style=\"color: #000000;\"><\/div>\n<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-2331\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mentorship.hku.hk\/daao\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Eliza-Zong.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mentorship.hku.hk\/daao\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Eliza-Zong.jpeg 3024w, https:\/\/www.mentorship.hku.hk\/daao\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Eliza-Zong-225x300.jpeg 225w, https:\/\/www.mentorship.hku.hk\/daao\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Eliza-Zong-768x1024.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.mentorship.hku.hk\/daao\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Eliza-Zong-110x146.jpeg 110w, https:\/\/www.mentorship.hku.hk\/daao\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Eliza-Zong-38x50.jpeg 38w, https:\/\/www.mentorship.hku.hk\/daao\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Eliza-Zong-56x75.jpeg 56w, https:\/\/www.mentorship.hku.hk\/daao\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Eliza-Zong-360x480.jpeg 360w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-2332\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mentorship.hku.hk\/daao\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/SHEN-Yichen.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mentorship.hku.hk\/daao\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/SHEN-Yichen.jpg 3024w, https:\/\/www.mentorship.hku.hk\/daao\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/SHEN-Yichen-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.mentorship.hku.hk\/daao\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/SHEN-Yichen-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.mentorship.hku.hk\/daao\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/SHEN-Yichen-110x146.jpg 110w, https:\/\/www.mentorship.hku.hk\/daao\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/SHEN-Yichen-38x50.jpg 38w, https:\/\/www.mentorship.hku.hk\/daao\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/SHEN-Yichen-56x75.jpg 56w, https:\/\/www.mentorship.hku.hk\/daao\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/SHEN-Yichen-360x480.jpg 360w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u201cProfessor Wong and I talked about our own stories and feelings about HKU. It is quite interesting to compare different experiences occurring at the same place but not the same time (there is a 40-year gap between me and my mentor). Afterwards I knew much more about HKU\u2019s history and also the older generations and their positive attitudes towards the University, and the Hong Kong and Chinese Mainland societies. Before I returned home, Professor Wong and I had a Irish lunch together, and he was so kind that he drove me to the airport.\u201d Elisa Zong, BA(UrbanStud) Year 3<\/p>\n<p>\u201cProfessor Thomas Wong gave me a lot of valuable suggestions, and he was kind enough to see me off at the airport when I left the country.\u201d \u00a0Shen Yichen, BSc Year 2<\/p>\n<p>Mentor in Illinois, USA: Professor Thomas T Y Wong<br \/>\nOutgoing Exchange Mentees (2017-18): Elisa Zong and Shen Yichen, both on exchange at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cProfessor Wong and I talked about our own stories and feelings about HKU. It is quite interesting to compare different experiences occurring at the same place but not the same time (there is a 40-year gap between me and my mentor). Afterwards I knew much more about HKU\u2019s history and<span class=\"excerpt-hellip\"> [\u2026]<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2331,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-features","category-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mentorship.hku.hk\/daao\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2330","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=2330"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.mentorship.hku.hk\/daao\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2330\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2334,"href":"https:\/\/www.mentorship.hku.hk\/daao\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2330\/revisions\/2334"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mentorship.hku.hk\/daao\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2331"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mentorship.hku.hk\/daao\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mentorship.hku.hk\/daao\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mentorship.hku.hk\/daao\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}