My Soulmates

Cheryl, from USA, is one of my best friends and a life-long soulmate. To many people I'm a secretive scorpio, but not to her. We both write volumes to each other for our email correspondence. I truly miss our time together in Beijing. She is also an accomplished astrologer and a tarot card reader.

"If anyone I know here in Beijing could make a GO of a new life in the West, it's YOU, Bao Huai. I have total confidence in you that you can build up, slowly but surely, an exciting new life in Canada, make new friends and connections, and have the time of your life!" --Cheryl

Steffani, from USA, now lives in Taiwan. Although we always fight, I still consider her my intellectual equal, or maybe superior. She is intense. She is the one, the only, a great woman and a great academia.

"Maybe Bao Huai should be chosen as the next Chinese ambassador [to the US]. Fluently uses idiomatic American English, charming, charismatic, making jokes and improvises but would not reveal any sensitive secrets or take the substantive policy risk. " --Steffani

Bob, from USA, lives in Long Island. He is one of the most intelligent men in the universe. I find my conversations with him extremely intellectually stimulating.

"Whilst reading your emails, I once again marveled at your excellent knowledge of the English Language...all in all, the report might just as well have been written by an educated American. The fact that you have an MA in English does NOT of and by itself impart such proficiency in English, so obviously you must have considerable APTITUDE for language learning--at least for the English language." --Bob