I see a bridge before me. It crosses every sea. A golden bridge that guides me. To a world that's good and free. We can walk together in peace and harmony - From "You're My Brother". What's it like to board a plane bound for a place nearly half the world away? A place where language and customs are strange, a place far away from home? For 27 dancers and musicians from China, ages 7 to 16, this May was the time to find out. That was when the Little Ambassadors of Shanghai crossed the Pacific Ocean for a three-week musical tour, becoming the first children's group from China to tour the United States. They were greeted in their first stop, California, by unfamiliar scenery, strange faces, funny-looking food and peculiar customs.
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