Staff Spotlight: Emily Zhu

During my gap year in college, I went to England with friends. I have visited most of the must-see tourist attractions, but the most impressive part of this trip for me was visiting the University of Oxford, the University of Cambridge, King's College, Imperial College London, and LSE. Some of the friends have decided to come back one day to one of these schools to continue master's degree studies. Finally one of the friends finally got the offer of LSE several years later! This trip was the most unforgettable traveling experience for me.

In the company, I am responsible for helping students to adapt to our campsite and helping them to speak Chinese in daily life in campsite.

After working in the summer camp, I feel that I become more open and my view has improved. In the past, I never dared to express my emotions. But after working for the summer camp, I feel that and I can communicate with my colleagues more smoothly.

It’s fascinating that I can listen to the students from all over the world to tell the interesting and fun things in their countries.

The best story I heard is from a mom of our summer camp's student from Thailand. She said that after his son came back home, he liked eating a lot of food that he did not even touch or eat before, he can arrange and clean his room every day, and he begins to answer her in Chinese when she speaks Chinese to him. The most impressive thing is that he didn't let her ask for the unaccompanied minor service from an airline company when he took a flight back to Thailand because he thought he was big enough to manage. His mom felt that he has grown up now and she thanked a lot to us for helping his son become better not only in Chinese level but also in other aspects of his daily life.

Our company is the top provider of the Chinese summer camp in China's market. If I was a foreign youth, I would definitely join this summer camp program.

This program is not only offering fun Chinese study every day, but you can really live and interact with local Chinese people, taste real Chinese food, experience the real Chinese college life, and certainly meet new friends from the whole world.

What makes our company unique is that we have a great and unique team.

As we all know, students in our summer camp are from worldwide. Different countries have different customs and lifestyles. Therefore, it is not easy for such a team full of diversity to be able to get along well together during so many days. I am most proud of the fact that we can conduct activities and manage camp life according to the characteristics of students from different countries. For example, there are a lot of things to pay attention to during eating time: some students are allergic to nuts, some students do not eat pork, some students like to add more soy sauce for each meal. Every student has his own special needs.

We do our best to satisfy their personal requirements. In fact, in practice, this is a very complicated and very laborious thing. However, no one in our team complained about it and each of us did our best to serve these children. I am very proud of this.

For our company, I think the most important factor is to make students get a good memory of our summer camp and let them experience the culture and customs of a different country. The memories of childhood and adolescence may accompany a person's life and affect a person's life. When they recall this experience a few years later, they will feel that it is a worthwhile trip, and all the things they have experienced in this trip will have motivated them to continue their effort in learning Chinese in the long term. I think this positive influence that we can offer is the biggest success of our company.