In order to greet the forthcoming guests, Wu Guoxiang has been busy preparing her collection of Yueju costumes and videos of her performances. She hopes to share her knowledge and love of Yueju with visitors and give them the opportunity to dress in traditional robes and learn some of the arias.

Wu Guoxiang lives in Aijian New Garden Residential Subdistrict. She was one of the first to apply to be an Expo Family. The moment she saw a notice for the program in her community, she immediately called all the households of Building16 to have a meeting. Such meetings are usually held for information exchange or in emergency situations. After the meeting, Wu Guoxiang and three other families submitted applications.

The zeal from Building 16 soon permeated the whole Aijian New Garden Residential Subdistrict. In the end, 17 households at Linfen Community where Wu's building is located handed in application forms and set up the "Expo Village." According to the requirements, each family should have a separate bedroom with a private bathroom. This, to Wu, was not a big deal. Since her son and daughter-in-law had gone abroad for work, their bedroom with private bathroom remained vacant. What she fretted over was how to decorate the room to provide her foreign guests with a cozy home for their stay.

After discussing it with her husband, Wu decided to renovate the house – whitewashing the walls, installing suspended ceiling, and supplanting the obsolete domestic appliances and sanitary wares with new ones. The renovation drew to a close just one month before the Expo. Despite a heavy workload, they were extremely happy with the way the house turned out, both neat and comfortable. In addition, the couple also vacated their grandson's room for those coming with children.

To these families, language barrier is perhaps the most difficult to overcome. "Since our home was chosen, the biggest problem my husband and I face is our poor English," Wu confessed. She has made great effort to learn English, taking part in language training courses organized by the community.