For the overseas Chinese students at Columbia, Missouri, sharing Chinese-language newspapers, exchanging news from home, occasionally dropping by the Chinese grocery to bask in the spicy aromas, cooking up some homemade food for a friend, and even making a special trip to the school of journalism to say hello to the pair of stone lions, must all be ways of conjuring up memories of home.
對哥倫比亞的留學生而言，除了互相傳閱中文報刊交換家鄉訊息，定時去中國商店聞聞熟悉的氣味，做些家常小吃送給朋友，還有特意到新聞學院去和那對石獅子打個招呼，都是一種想家的方式吧。