Hong Kong students # 1 and # 2

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I had three regular students from Hong Kong, one dropped off the tutor site due to expense, but Ivan (he called himself) dropped out due to expense. He is a very political young man who was involved in the xix months of protests against the government there. Ivan was in the streets, but drew a line at fighting with the police who used water cannons and lots of tear gas to disperse the (mostly) students. The demonstrations ended when the Covid 19 virus got Hong Kong. Ivan loved to read US news and newspapers and was quite interested in our primary elections and who might be the Democratic candidate in November. We had a lot of discussions and I miss his intelligent comments. Number 2 is Eddie. He is a very laid back young man who, when we met. worked as a graphic designer in an ad agency, but did not like the demanding nature of his job, so resigned. It was only a few weeks until he was contacted by a local company to do their graphic work. He asked me what I thought of the idea. I told him that any kind of job was usually better than none, so why not try it? He did and likes it a lot. He has been working from home during the virus problem. Eddie met a young Vietnamese woman through a personals ad who is working in Hong Kong as a teacher. Her command of English intimidated him a bit, but they see each other quite a bit. He insists it is just a "friends" thing. Eddie is a Christian, pretty involved in his church. I did not know that there are many Christians there. This tutoring work has become addictive for me really.