The Spirit of Wonder Project seeks to share and analyze individual life narratives to foster relationships with and among communities and different cultures, to support connectivity and to develop community engagement.

Our mission is to revive storytelling and to popularize this approach of people connecting with themselves, each other, and their communities. In modern scientific research, storytelling has been proven to cure trauma, resolve conflicts, improve self-understanding, and raise self-esteem.

“Chinese have a very limited political view on things. So, if you want to show things like the views on political things … it definitely limits some of your self expression, because the platform will limit you to do that”

“if you want to color or cut your hair, it costs too much compared to my country“

“One of the biggest shocks for me when experiencing American food is how Americans want everything to be sweet and sugary — even the foods that are not supposed to be: like bread, or bacon covered in maple syrup...read more...

Continuing higher study overseas has always been my dream, and I am not giving up that dream even after marriage and having a child. I am grateful that I can now live in that dream.....

When I first came to America [from China], it was hard for me to understand that Americans drink ice water all year round. I can’t understand why drinking ice water all year round doesn’t make you cold.

For many international students, studying in the USA brings excitement about learning and living in a different culture. Some international students want to prepare by understanding what cultural difference they will encounter in the United States.

“Chinese have a very limited political view on things. So, if you want to show things like the views on political things … it definitely limits some of your self expression, because the platform will limit you to do that”

“I would say BU is pretty good because it’s a city like Boston and I think NYC and that might be it actually. I’m pretty good transportation systems, but Australia definitely had like many legs up on the United States”

As an international student studying in the U.S., I can’t help but feel excluded, especially as a political science student, when I have to respond that in fact, I cannot register to vote since I am not American.