Burlington teacher leads students on acadmic exchange in China

Ms. Yi-ching Yang of Burlington, a Modern language teacher at Boston College High School, recently led 12 BC High students to China to take part in BC High's 12th annual Beijing Summer Seminar. 

The Beijing Seminar is a four-week academic exchange program offered by BC High in conjunction with High School Number 2 in Beijing, China.

While in China, the boys attended intensive daily language classes, as well as classes in history and Chinese culture .  They lived with host families to fully immerse themselves in everything the Chinese culture has to offer and they received academic credit for this experience.

The group also participated in excursions to the Forbidden City, the Great Wall of China and the ancient city of Xi'an.

BC High offers similar academic exchange programs in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Lyon, France and Dublin, Ireland.  As BC High continues to plan for the opening of the Lawrence H. Hyde '42 Center for Global Education, a new program in Tanzania will be offered in 2014.

PHOTO: Ms. Yi-ching Yang

PHOTO 2: Longmen Grottoes: Housing tens of thousands of statues of Buddha and his disciples. The images, many once painted, were carved into caves excavated from the limestone cliffs of the Xiangshan and Longmenshan mountains.

Boston College High School is a Jesuit, Catholic, college-preparatory school for young men founded in 1863.  The school enrolls approximately 1600 students from more than 100 communities in eastern Massachusetts. For more http://www.bchigh.edu