In the summer of 2019, I co-organized an Ethnographic Field Summer School in a tea-producing border town in Yunnan, China. Together with my colleague Chen, I led sixteen high school students from around the world to explore topics such as tea cultivation and environmental change, kinship and gendered labor, and local cosmologies of spirit and nature. Immersed in daily life and collective inquiry, students learned how ethnography can turn abstract theories into lived questions about work, belief, and belonging. For me, that transformation remains the most powerful part of teaching anthropology.