Ruo Zhang, who is known by her friends as “Zoe”, grew up hoping that she would someday visit the United States of America, which she had read and seen so much about on television, in movies, books, and magazines. Zoe explained to the audience at the Missouri State University 2011 Endowed Scholarship Dinner, that she had no idea the wish would eventually come true and she would be living and receiving an education in the United States because of the generosity of a stranger.