Wednesday, July 9, 2008

A little news on language learning

Bridge China Families and Friends,

Greetings from Windsor Mountain!

As many of you learned during student check-in calls on Monday, there has been a change in the structure of the Guiyang segment of Bridge China.

March and Yi have taken over the language program. Our contact in Guiyang has proven to be unsuitable for the group. This came as a complete surprise to everyone involved: our trip developer Carl Siegel, myself, and especially the person who introduced us to this contact in the first place.

March and Yi are actually better Chinese teachers than the those our contact had originally arranged, so they are taking over. Also, they have a great relationship with the group, and this new situation is working out very well. We lost two mornings of class due to these unexpected circumstances, and those two days will be made up during the family home stay portion of the program in Pengliu.

We appreciate your patience as we work to maintain the highest educational standards for Chinese language instruction on Bridge China 2008!

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