There comes a time and place in your life when you don’t know anymore whether to trust the people that you are surrounded with. My mother and I were at that stage in California and it was truly time to leave. I was broken into many pieces emotionally and physically. We felt the Chinese coach would be the one who could bring me back to health and to my potential. I don’t know how my father agreed to everything my mother and I decided, but he gave us all the means and everything he could. I loved and missed him so much that I wanted to show my appreciation to him through my skating. He loved us so much by giving us all his trust. He knew how much I loved skating and anything would be possible for his little girl’s dream. But China? So far away? And not Beijing or Hong Kong or Shanghai, but all the way up north near the Russian border in Harbin! I mean it isn’t just every day that you get to move to China. I was thrilled to go back to Asia and I felt in my bones that the coach would be able to teach me to perform miracles.
