July 03, 2012

We have been so busy over the past week! Our students have been extremely busy immersing themselves not only in Chinese culture, but also in the challenging language. Besides having three class periods of intensive chinese learning everyday, they have been jumping head-on into some of the most traditional and fun Chinese cultural activities.

So far, the students have learned Gongfu, watched important and always funny clips from Journey to the West, learned Chinese knotting, practiced Chinese Paper Cutting, heard about Chinese Architecture, learned about the historical religions of China, and most recently, practiced Chinese Calligraphy!!! So much within such a short amount of time... all while enhancing their Chinese language skills. Our students are truly amazing.

Today is the most exciting day so far: we are having our Fourth of July Olympic games against the three other academies later tonight. Some of the activities will include ping-pong relays, mummy racing, chopstick/ jellybean races, and crab soccer. Right now the students are training for these arduous events and preparing themselves to look fiercely intimidating to the other academies. We have won two years in a row, and we intend to make this our third!