{"id":744,"date":"2017-07-03T17:43:40","date_gmt":"2017-07-03T09:43:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mentorship.hku.hk\/daao\/\/?p=744"},"modified":"2017-08-25T17:01:43","modified_gmt":"2017-08-25T09:01:43","slug":"vancouver-choices-in-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mentorship.hku.hk\/daao\/index.php\/2017\/07\/03\/vancouver-choices-in-life\/","title":{"rendered":"[Vancouver] Choices in life"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><span style=\"color: #ff9900;\"><strong><div class=\"column one\">Choices in life<\/div>\n<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-745\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mentorship.hku.hk\/daao\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Nicole-Hui.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"527\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mentorship.hku.hk\/daao\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Nicole-Hui.png 899w, https:\/\/www.mentorship.hku.hk\/daao\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Nicole-Hui-300x228.png 300w, https:\/\/www.mentorship.hku.hk\/daao\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Nicole-Hui-768x583.png 768w, https:\/\/www.mentorship.hku.hk\/daao\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Nicole-Hui-192x146.png 192w, https:\/\/www.mentorship.hku.hk\/daao\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Nicole-Hui-50x38.png 50w, https:\/\/www.mentorship.hku.hk\/daao\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Nicole-Hui-99x75.png 99w, https:\/\/www.mentorship.hku.hk\/daao\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Nicole-Hui-632x480.png 632w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 527px) 100vw, 527px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy mentor, Ms Yeda Hong, and I had our first lunch in a Korean restaurant in Vancouver. Although we hadn&#8217;t met each other before, we talked throughout the lunch on endless topics. Yeda was so nice and gave me a very warm welcome as a great start of my exchange.<\/p>\n<p>Yeda told me a lot about herself. We shared our own stories of HKU. She told me about her own experience growing up. I learnt a lot from her. For example, she encouraged me to pursue my own interests and treasure my time with friends. This is some of the precious advice she gave me.<\/p>\n<p>She inspired me every time I met her. She was a lawyer previously and is now a full-time housewife and mom, taking care of her two little daughters. Her life story showed me how to make choices in life and treasure my time.\u201d Mentee Nicole, who was on exchange at the Simon Fraser University.<\/p>\n<p>Mentor in British Columbia, Canada since 2016: Ms Yeda Hong<br \/>\nOutgoing Exchange Mentee (2016-17): Nicole Hui, BA Year 3<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cMy mentor, Ms Yeda Hong, and I had our first lunch in a Korean restaurant in Vancouver. Although we hadn&#8217;t met each other before, we talked throughout the lunch on endless topics. Yeda was so nice and gave me a very warm welcome as a great start of my exchange.<span class=\"excerpt-hellip\"> [\u2026]<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":745,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-744","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\/744","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=744"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.mentorship.hku.hk\/daao\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/744\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1582,"href":"https:\/\/www.mentorship.hku.hk\/daao\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/744\/revisions\/1582"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mentorship.hku.hk\/daao\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/745"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mentorship.hku.hk\/daao\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mentorship.hku.hk\/daao\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mentorship.hku.hk\/daao\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}