Hi, Mom, I'm in Nepal

摘要

When nicole hess decided to spend her junior year abroad, she wanted to go somewhere more exciting than London or Paris, the traditional student meccas. She found it. Shortly before she arrived in Beijing in 1999, NATO forces bombed China's embassy in Belgrade, killing three people. Angry Chinese "kept coming up to me saying, 'Why did you bomb the embassy?'" says Hess, now a senior at Duke University. "It was crazy." That fall, things got crazier. While studying at Nanjing University, Hess developed a severe lung infection. She spent three weeks at a hospital she says was dirty and lacked modern amenities.