 To come from a little town like Dubbo and be like a strong indigenous woman and be in China is unfathomable. I think it's important to have that global awareness as a scholar group and as just a citizen of a world and I've really realised that through coming here that no matter how differently they live their lives or how different their political system is, their everyday life is so similar. It's one of the marmalay values becoming globally aware and I think getting a better understanding of this huge culture that is becoming globally more significant, I think that's really significant. It's made me have a lot more respect for Chinese people, how friendly they are and how open they are to wanting to share their culture with foreigners and how excited they are to have us here and I can't wait to go back and take that back to Australia. The preservation and like importance they place on culture and history, it's just incredible like how there's sort of just this real emphasis on like celebrating and preserving that culture. The display at the Westlake, you know, the Great Wall. This experience is nothing you can ever experience reading in a book but actually being here, seeing the people, having those magical little moments in the everyday that's just completely broadened our world. Also I've done so much learning about myself. I've learnt how important my values are and how really core they are to everything I do.