Documentary China

At home in the UK, on holiday from China, winter break, a cold wind howls and I keep looking at flights to Montreal. I want to go visit my daughter, but I dread the flight – Hurricane Candy, or Doris, or Elfie has just hit and stories of planes flying sideways across Arctic skies petrify me. Then I get a call from Beijing that Dr. Sun, who organizes “People inspired by Norman Bethune”, has set up a series of interviews for us. This decides me, and before I know it I am sitting at Heathrow after downing three Americanos waiting for the Montreal flight. Funny how things don’t change and how one misses certain touches. The waiting room looks North American, if you follow me. North American dressed for winter with Canada Goose coats tucked ready for the hit-me-quick cold that hits quick when getting out of the airport. Girls with sleek streaked hair, long legged and sexual, stride with an air I always associate with Montreal – one of certainty, of going somewhere. I sett