Brookliners abroad

Eight Brookline High School students (and one teacher) are spending four months in Xi'an, China, living with host families and immersing themselves in the local culture. One of the students is blogging the experience. Right now, they're still heavily into the adapting-to-the-local-ways stage:

... i've taken to smuggling my toothpaste into the bathroom when I brush my teeth b/c my host mom has been making me use their fish flavored tooth paste.