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SLUH Welcomes Chinese Exchange Students
As the second semester began, St. Louis U. High welcomed four new visitors from Nanjing, China: Georgiana Jin, Hurricane Wei, David Yao and Victoria Zuo. The four Chinese foreign exchange students arrived January 17th and will spend a semester at SLUH.
The students spent the first semester of their school year at the Nanjing Foreign Language School in China. After taking their entrance exam into senior high — 10th grade — in July, each found out in November that they were a top-four scorer out of almost 600 students who had taken the exam.
The Nanjing school teaches four main languages: English, French, Japanese and German, with each offering an exchange program. With their scores, the four students qualified for the foreign exchange program that would allow them to study in America for a semester at SLUH. Their American exchange program is the only one available for tenth graders, but there is also an eleventh grade program that allows students to study in America for an entire year.
After they finished their first semester, the students flew to St. Louis, meeting SLUH Chinese teacher Ching-ling Tai at the airport.
“I had never met any of them before, but I trust the school to send only the best students,” Tai said.
Aside from schoolwork, the Chinese students have found time to explore the St. Louis area. They have already visited a local shopping mall, and the girls plan to visit Cor Jesu Academy.
While staying here, the four students will be living with eight different host families, one for each quarter. Zuo will be staying with the Fords and the Laurys, Jin will be staying with the Lewis and the Lee families, Yao will be staying with the Coleman and the Chellis families, and Hurricane will be staying with the Cavallini and the Gayou families.
In China, the students learn nine different subjects a day, and 13 in total. Here, all take biology, physics, English I, advanced geometry, U.S. history and computer fundamentals. For the seventh class, Yao and Jin take chorus, while Wei and Zuo take drawing I.
The students all say that geometry class is currently their easiest class, because they learned it in seventh grade, but agree that English is the hardest subject.
The students were in disagreement about the level of homework at SLUH compared to Nanjing. Hurricane said, “We don’t have much homework here, and the school ends earlier than (in) China, so we could have more free time.”
Vicky disagreed, noting that her English homework takes longer at SLUH.
All the students seem to be enjoying the extra free time that they have here. David said, “During the free time we can play some sports, play some games, and we went to see a movie.”
The new Chinese exchange students will be here until May 31.
by Eric Mueth '11, Nick Williams '13
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