Landed in LA
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Instructor Ian and all students on the group flight have landed safely at Los Angeles LAX. Safe travels onward and home!...Read More
Instructor Ian and all students on the group flight have landed safely at Los Angeles LAX. Safe travels onward and home!...Read More
The gaiwan’s heat reminds an old tea leaf of its time under the golden sun. The once dead leaf awakens to reveal its true fragrance Tell me, how will this rebirth occur if the tea is crushed and bagged? 盖碗的温度让古老的茶叶......Read More
The Peacock Dance was unlike anything I’ve ever studied in terms of the structure of the class and its movements compared to the styles that I’ve learned. I’ve always taken hip-hop, ballet, modern and contemporary dance classes where a group......Read More
A week and change ago we showed up in Kunming. That day, we arrived at the program house at about 11:00. Everyone’s homestay families were scheduled to pick them up at 12:00. By 12:15, everyone was gone but me. At the last minute, my family had......Read More
All students on the group flight are on their way from Kunming to Beijing, where they’ll transfer for their flight to Los Angeles! With so much thanks to all students, families, instructors Patricia, Ian & Maddie, China Program Coordinator......Read More
There will always be a point in your life when you will feel lost, when you look in the mirror and you don’t recognize who you’ve become and you’re starting to lose grip on what you’re meant to do. This feeling, for me, accumulated over the......Read More
Wow. It’s already August. I feel like this summer just started and then I’ve just been in this surreal dream for the past five weeks. Where did the time go? Never in six weeks have I felt like I’ve changed so much as a person. The friends......Read More
Warm, oh- so inviting: The Beijing Guesthouse. Cats roam as we make delicious dumplings The Great Wall ever in sight: climbing up so high In the mountains. Watching: The Sunset Watching: The Stars Watching: The Fireworks Watching the time start to......Read More
Dear Families & Friends, It is hard to believe that almost six weeks have passed since your student embarked on this incredible adventure! It won’t be long until students will be boarding their planes back home. We are sure you are anxiously......Read More
因为我们火把节第一天的经历很失望,所以我们的小组的状态很低了,我们决定有一个比较轻松的早晨。我们先到了一个傣族餐厅去吃早点;我们吃了面条(米线、圈粉、饵丝、等等)、包......Read More
Day 1 One of the first nights in Dali, the same night we got the x-phase introduced, we also heard about the opportunity to experience the 彝族 (yi ethnicity) torch festival. This festival happens every year, all over Yunnan, but the main event......Read More
We took the high speed train back from Dali two days ago. We will start our homestays shortly but are currently on our way to 楚雄 (Chu Xiong) for the annual fire festival where we will spend our weekend. Last night, after trying out a few ISP......Read More
Lying between the shining lake Er Hai and the towering Cangshan Peak is Dali, an ancient city full of beauty and history, and where we have stayed for the past five days. Whereas most groups would have had to stay in a hotel we were lucky enough to......Read More
Most good days don’t start at 5:30 but as we viewed the historic Three Pagodas of Dali through dense fog without another tourist in sight, I knew we had made the right choice in waking up early. We rose before the sun in our last-minute hotel and......Read More
Journal drawings and group reflections from the Dali Eco House!...Read More