Author Archives: Vy Nguyen

It was the last week in Beijing and with HBA. We all couldn’t believe my fast time went by. I knew I’m going to miss the time here, the friends I made, and the teachers who helped me so much … Continue reading →

It was already the eighth week. I was starting to think I should take advantage of the remaining two weeks to explore the city more. This week we wouldn’t be having Friday activities, as well as Saturday trips. So I … Continue reading →

7th week was the speech contest week, so we all were super busy with the preparation. I was definitely amazed and grateful by how much effort HBA teachers put into helping us prepare for this contest. I was assigned a … Continue reading →

  Sixth week, we started the new book. This book’s content relates more to world problems instead of only problems usually confined to China, so we got to discuss world wide beauty standards, advertisement and marketing, as well as studying … Continue reading →

This week we went on a social study trip to Huizhou. I signed up for this trip hoping to catch sights of the country lives of Chinese people, but really was much different than expected. In the past 40 years, … Continue reading →

This is the last week of the first semester so there was a lot of review going on besides the usual classes. I also got chosen to present HBA on an inter-program speaking contest. I knew this was going to … Continue reading →

Third week was the time when I started to think about how to make both my Chinese speaking and writing more natural. In class, the social problems we discussed overall reminded me a lot about the same social problems that … Continue reading →

I was getting more used to the workload now. I enjoyed the one-on-one session for the chance to speak to teachers and have them check my pronunciation and tone. Back at Williams, I thought my pronunciation was fine because we … Continue reading →

I had been pretty excited to be back in Beijing after a year since my one-week summer vacation there. At Beiyu, I was happy to have my own room and my own space to settle down during the first week. … Continue reading →