The North Fulton Branch of the American Association of University Women (AAUW) will hold its next meeting on Saturday, Oct. 13 and the topic of discussion will be Chinese education.

October's guest speaker is Cyndy Saunders, who lived with a Chinese family and teach English to middle school students in Jiangmen, Guangdong Province, China eight years ago. That family has become a second family to her and she has returned to China five times since her first visit. When in China, she lives and travels with her "Chinese family," experiencing a China that is rarely seen by tourists. Her friendships in China have grown to include people in many provinces and she's had the very special opportunity to visit a number of small villages to "meet the grandparents."

In addition, she has travelled to China as part of an education delegation from Connecticut, meeting in Beijing with government representatives responsible for education throughout China.