US Vice President Kamala Harris and her running mate Tim Walz (Image: EPA/Bizuayehu Tesfaye)
US Vice President Kamala Harris and her running mate Tim Walz (Image: EPA/Bizuayehu Tesfaye)

Last Wednesday, I woke up to find out that Minnesota Governor Tim Walz had been announced as US Vice President Kamala Harris’ running mate for the coming election. As the world proceeded to collectively google who Walz is, I checked my notes: the same Tim Walz once taught in my high school in China back in 1989. 

As I scrolled through my phone and tried to find out more information about Tim Walz’s China past, my mind was flooded with old memories of my high school, a selective school for Year 10-12 students founded by a British missionary 111 years ago in Foshan, a southern city where Ip Man, the teacher of famous Kung Fu star Bruce Lee, was born.