I'm an artist from the US.  I started teaching at Xiada in 2000. My new students always wanted to know what I did before I came to China .  When I told them about my BADvertising Institute, a tobacco prevention program based on my artwork, and showed them my website ( www.badvertsing.org ), they immediately recognized the great need in China and wanted to do that here, too.  We've already done many projects here in China.(link  "projects to  * )
　　This year, in the spring of 2006, some of my students took the bull by the horns and we founded Green Breathing as an official organization at Xiamen University ...dedicated to bringing Smokefree Air to China , empowering non-smokers to reclaim their right to smokefree air, and encouraging smokers to quit.  In March, we encouraged the Xiamen International Marathon committee to make the marathon route a Smokefree Zone and in May, the Zhang Zhou Campus agreed to go smokefree.  We're now engaged in the work of putting those intentions into action.
　　By the fall semester we had Green Breathing branches on the Tan Kah Kee Campus, the main campus, and the Hanway English Kindergarten.  We're in the process of setting up a citizens group in Xiamen . We invite you to visit our website at www.greenbreating.org and enjoy our Smokefree Campus.
　　In addition to working on Green Breathing, I love being with friends and I also love being alone..enjoying a quiet life, reading, meditating, doing tai chi, experimenting with my oil pastels, and taking photos for my new Aesthetics class.  I often go to my second Chinese home in an old village outside Li Jiang where I'm eager to work in the garden, do my art work, and explore the other mountain villages. Improving my Putong Hua is, of course, an integral part of my everyday life.