I took a boat out to the island in the middle and seated in front of me was a young Chinese girl, maybe about 5. She couldn’t stop staring at me. So I smiled, waved at her, and said, “Ni hao!” Her parents, who had been talking about me since I got on the boat, immediately assumed I could speak Chinese and started asking me questions. My Chinese isn’t good enough that I could keep up with them, but I could get a few things across. When we got off the boat, the mother asked to have a picture. I tried to get the little girl in the picture, too, but she was far too interested in climbing a tree…