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february 29, 2000
Dear Jet,
You and your teammates must have been through a lot during your grueling hours of training and living together. Were the relationships more on terms of siblings, friends or colleagues? Do you still keep in contact with them and do you have any advice for working with others as a team?
Jake
Jet's Response
Back in China, I trained and grew up with about twenty people. My relationships with them were on a normal classmate-to-classmate basis. We ate together, trained together, played together -- it's just like what you would find at any other school.
Of course, as is the case with any group of people, I became close friends with some of my teammates (to this day I keep in contact with them) while remaining on a purely acquaintance level with the others. That is not to say I disliked the others. Because of differing personalities, viewpoints, and other characteristics, it is only natural some of us grew close together while the others drifted apart. One simply doesn't become best friends with every person in the class. It is not realistic.
