{"id":2724,"date":"2018-08-26T12:09:16","date_gmt":"2018-08-26T04:09:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mentorship.hku.hk\/daao\/?p=2724"},"modified":"2018-08-31T15:01:33","modified_gmt":"2018-08-31T07:01:33","slug":"home-away-from-home-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mentorship.hku.hk\/daao\/index.php\/2018\/08\/26\/home-away-from-home-2\/","title":{"rendered":"A mom in a foreign land"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong><div class=\"column one\">\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/span><strong><span style=\"color: #ff9900;\">A mom in a foreign land <\/span><\/strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><\/div>\n<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-2737\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mentorship.hku.hk\/daao\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Aleena-Khalid-3-e1535698616899.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"533\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mentorship.hku.hk\/daao\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Aleena-Khalid-3-e1535698616899.jpg 3840w, https:\/\/www.mentorship.hku.hk\/daao\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Aleena-Khalid-3-e1535698616899-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.mentorship.hku.hk\/daao\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Aleena-Khalid-3-e1535698616899-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.mentorship.hku.hk\/daao\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Aleena-Khalid-3-e1535698616899-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.mentorship.hku.hk\/daao\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Aleena-Khalid-3-e1535698616899-260x146.jpg 260w, https:\/\/www.mentorship.hku.hk\/daao\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Aleena-Khalid-3-e1535698616899-50x28.jpg 50w, https:\/\/www.mentorship.hku.hk\/daao\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Aleena-Khalid-3-e1535698616899-133x75.jpg 133w, https:\/\/www.mentorship.hku.hk\/daao\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Aleena-Khalid-3-e1535698616899-853x480.jpg 853w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 533px) 100vw, 533px\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-2738\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mentorship.hku.hk\/daao\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Aleena-Khalid-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"442\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mentorship.hku.hk\/daao\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Aleena-Khalid-2.jpg 3169w, https:\/\/www.mentorship.hku.hk\/daao\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Aleena-Khalid-2-300x204.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.mentorship.hku.hk\/daao\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Aleena-Khalid-2-768x522.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.mentorship.hku.hk\/daao\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Aleena-Khalid-2-1024x695.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.mentorship.hku.hk\/daao\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Aleena-Khalid-2-215x146.jpg 215w, https:\/\/www.mentorship.hku.hk\/daao\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Aleena-Khalid-2-50x34.jpg 50w, https:\/\/www.mentorship.hku.hk\/daao\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Aleena-Khalid-2-110x75.jpg 110w, https:\/\/www.mentorship.hku.hk\/daao\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Aleena-Khalid-2-707x480.jpg 707w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 442px) 100vw, 442px\" \/>\u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-2726\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mentorship.hku.hk\/daao\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Ms-YAP-Pui-Min-2.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mentorship.hku.hk\/daao\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Ms-YAP-Pui-Min-2.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/www.mentorship.hku.hk\/daao\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Ms-YAP-Pui-Min-2-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.mentorship.hku.hk\/daao\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Ms-YAP-Pui-Min-2-768x576.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.mentorship.hku.hk\/daao\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Ms-YAP-Pui-Min-2-195x146.jpeg 195w, https:\/\/www.mentorship.hku.hk\/daao\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Ms-YAP-Pui-Min-2-50x38.jpeg 50w, https:\/\/www.mentorship.hku.hk\/daao\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Ms-YAP-Pui-Min-2-100x75.jpeg 100w, https:\/\/www.mentorship.hku.hk\/daao\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Ms-YAP-Pui-Min-2-640x480.jpeg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><br \/>\n\u201cI benefitted quite a lot from the mentoring relationship with my mentor, Anita, because I found a home away from home. I found a mom in a foreign land. I know that if I face any sort of trouble, I can always seek her out and she&#8217;ll always be there for me. It has helped me gain the emotional stability I needed when I stepped out of my home and country for the first time on my own.<\/p>\n<p>Anita is loving and caring. When I had dinner with her and her husband K O at her house, she had made all sorts of dishes for me and my buddy mentees. She is also very understanding as she is able to make an emotional connection with me based on my level of understanding. All in all, I am very happy with the mentor I have been assigned.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mentor: Mrs Anita Chan<br \/>\nMentee (2017-18): Aleena Khalid (BSc[Biomedical Sciences] Year 1) from Pakistan<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 \u201cI benefitted quite a lot from the mentoring relationship with my mentor, Anita, because I found a home away from home. I found a mom in a foreign land. 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