So.. this past summer I traveled with a group of 30 students from the academy to China for one month. This trip is organized by the Wo International Center every other summer. Originally I signed up for the trip because a friend encouraged me to, but I quickly realized that this trip is more than just traveling for pleasure.
The main focus of the trip is a two week stay in the city of Baojing, located in Hunan Province. Baojing is a small rural city that is not like the poster cities of China: Beijing and Shanghai. By our American standards, it's grimy, undeveloped, and poverty stricken. But I think that Baojing's strength lie in its people, primarily the students. We were to teach English to middle and high school students in a summer camp setting. Every morning we'd spend about two hours teaching, and then we'd spend the rest of the day doing activities of all sorts. This happened for two weeks.
Before the trip, I didn't really think about the impact we would have on the students. Now I hope that our impact lives on in each of these students.
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