Students rally to help out in hour of need

At a morning class last week at Tianjin Medical University, my students pointed out to me that I wasn't my usual happy self and asked me what was wrong.

I was suffering from aftershocks of the devastating earthquakes in Japan and China's Yunnan province, as I used to live in a region in Japan that was severely affected, and I still have friends in the area. Worry and sadness had sucked all the fun out of me.

It turned out that I wasn't alone in this, as some of my students had friends and relatives in Japan, and were equally worried about what was happening there.