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DAY 1
ARRIVAL IN US
ARRIVAL IN
AMERICA PITTSBURGH, PENNSYLVANIA
DAY 1
ARRIVAL @ CHAPEL HILL
TODAY IS THE FIRST DAY I WENT TO THE FARM. IT’S A VERY EXCITING EXPERIENCE. IN MY OPINION, THE MOST INTERESTING THING DURING THE FIRST TIME IS THE FREE TIME ON THE FARM. DURING THE HOURS, WE HAVE AN ADVENTURE IN THE HOUSE WE LIVE. WE FIND MANY INTERESTING THINGS IN THE DORMITORY.WE EVEN FOUND A BET ON THE THIRD FLOOR. I ALSO EXPERIENCED THE MOTORBIKE AND CLIMB ON THE HILL. THROUGH THE DAY, I REALIZED I CAN DO A LOT OF THINGS I ENABLE TO. AS A GROUP LEADER, I LEARN TO TAKE CARE OF THE GROUP MEMBERS. IT IS REALLY A CHALLENGE, BUT ALSO MADE ME STRONGER AND GREATER. IT ALSO ALLOWED ME TO PRACTICE ENGLISH DURING THE CONVERSATION BETWEEN FOREIGNERS. I WAS IMPRESSED BY THE OPEN MINDS OF AMERICANS. THEY ARE REALLY GOOD. - LEO
ORIENTATION
DAY 1
orientation & games @ farm
WELCOME DINNER
American Scholar Group
2015 Summer in America Welcome Dinner God Bless America
Sang by the Instructors of American Scholar Group
Pledge of Allegiance
Led by Members of the United States Armed Forces
Opening Remarks: Susan Amorose Provost & Chief Academic Officer
Pastor Jim Chapin Chaplin
Code of Honor: Zhang Mingyang (Mason) Student Government Representative
Closing Remarks: David Ho Executive Chairman
Dr. Mark Hogue
Principal of Greenville High School
America the Beautiful
Sang by the Instructors of American Scholar Group
“MY FAVORITE ACTIVITIES, IS THE WELCOME DINNER. NEEDLESS TO SAY, THE DISHES THERE ARE SO DELICATE AND DELICIOUS. IN MY OPINION, THE SOUP CAN BE MOST TASTY. WHEREAS, THE MOST IMPRESSIVE THING IS THE TIME WE CHAT WITH TEACHERS. THE ATMOSPHERE IS REALLY RELAXING AND WE JUST HAVE SO MUCH FUN.” - STACIE
OPENING REMARKS: SUSAN AMOROSE PROVOST & CHIEF ACADEMIC OFFICER
SAYING THE PLEDGE OF ALLEGIENCE WITH MEMBERS OF THE ARMED FORCES
PASTOR JIM CHAPIN CHAPLIN
SAYING THE ASG CODE OF HONOR WITH ZHANG MINGYANG (MASON)
SWEET POTATOES &
MARSHMALLOWS
MASHED POTATOES
GREEN BEAN
CASSEROLE EATING A TRADITIONAL AMERICAN THANKSGIVING DINNER
HAND CARVED
TURKEY
DR. MARK HOGUE PRINCIPAL OF GREENVILLE HIGH SCHOOL
CLOSING REMARKS: DAVID HO EXECUTIVE CHAIRMAN
TOURING GREENVILLE HIGH SCHOOL
DAY 2
TOUR OF GREENVILLE HIGH SCHOOL
BRO DO YOU
EVEN LIFT?
FELIX’S PHOTO!
HERE STUDY IN O T T N A I REALLY W WILL ENJOY THE K I F A HOST O AND I THIN E K A M D N A LIFE HERE FRIENDS. - FELIX
STACIE’S
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SLIDING DOWN
THE SLIP ‘N SLIDE!
DAY 2
FREE TIME @ THE FARM
TOURING URSULINE HIGH SCHOOL
“I WANT TO TRAVEL AROUND THE WORLD AND GET AN IDEA OF HOW THE SCHOOLS WORK, I THINK AMERICAN SCHOOLS ARE VERY GOOD, I LOVE HOW BIG THE FACILITIES ARE AND THE THINGS YOU COULD DO OR TAKE PART IN THE SCHOOL, IT IS SURELY A LOT BIGGER THAN THE SCHOOL BACK IN MY COUNTRY.” - BRAD
DAY 3
TOUR OF URSULINE HIGH SCHOOL
ADMIRING SOME AMERICAN GRAFITI
CLIFF DIVING @ NELSON LEDGES
DAY 3 NELSON LEDGES
EATING AN AMERICAN BBQ @ SHARPSVILLE HIGH SCHOOL
DAY 4
TOUR OF SHS
“HOW TIME FLIES!!! TWO DAYS HAS PASSED SINCE I CAME TO AMERICA. ALL OF US TOOK PART IN A VARIETY OF INTERESTING ACTIVITIES. HOWEVER, IN MY OPINION, THE MOST FAVORITE ACTIVITY FOR ME IS PAINTING THE MURAL. NEEDLESS TO SAY, IT IS GREAT FUN TO ENJOY THE PRECESS OF PAINTING WITH SHARPSVILLE HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS AND ROOMMATES, AS WELL AS MY FRIENDS. MEANWHILE, THE REASON THE ACTIVITY REALLY ATTRACTED ME IS THE SPIRIT THAT NEEDS ALL OF US TO COLLABORATE WITH EACH OTHER. AFTER THE WORK IS FINISHED, LOOKING AT THE AWESOME PICTURE, I FELT THE FEELING OF HAPPINESS AND SATISFACTION. WHAT A WONDERFUL ACTIVITY.“ - WENDY
DAY 4 PAINTING WITH NEW FRIENDS
MURAL PAINTING WITH SHARPSVILLE STUDENTS
EXTRA! EXTRA! READ ALL ABOUT IT!
Monday, August 3, 2015
So different, yet so alike: Sharpsville students greet delegation from Chinese sister school By JOE WIERCINSKI Herald Staff Writer
Shanghai during a summer academic camp designed to introduce them to American high schools and colleges. It’s part of an education program started five years ago by Greenville area businessman David Ho, an alumnus of Thiel College. The Chinese teenagers met 15 local students from the Lead Team at Sharpsville High School, which in April became a sister school with Shanghai International Studies University Bilingual School.
Vickie Beckman, American Scholar Group’s general manager for global engagement, said the Chinese students, accompanied by their principal and two teachers, also will visit Greenville and Youngstown’s Ursuline high schools, as well as Thiel and Westminster colleges, Western Case and Gannon American Scholar Group, Greenville, universities and the University of is sponsoring 23 students from Pittsburgh before returning home
SHARPSVILLE – Students from sister schools in China and the United States spent a day last week getting to know each other. Chances are, some of them will attend classes together during the coming school year.
Aug. 15. In the meantime, they’re lodging in Greenville in homes and dormitories owned by American Scholar Group. Sharpsville Principal Tim Dadich and other district staffers came up with the idea of having the students from the two schools paint murals together as a way to channel their curiosity about each other. They worked in groups designing, drawing and painting murals on themes of friendship, hope, collaboration and diversity. Alivia Shuttleworth, who will be a senior, credited Tao Yuan Chen – who goes by “Leo” because it’s a more easily pronounced American name – for the overall concept of their team’s mural, “Hope.” Brightly colored suns on the edges shone toward the center. One represented China and the other the United States. Human figures
to fly the plane. That was so cool.” During their visit, the students went to a Pittsburgh Pirates game. They hiked at Nelson’s Ledges State Park in Ohio, went horseback riding and spent a day swimming “It’s pretty cool that these kids Monday, August 3, 2015 in Lake Erie at Presque Isle. are curious about America,” the 18-year-old said. “We’re trying to in silhouette at the bottom reached give them a big scoop of what life is upward toward an angel as though like over here.” they were reaching together for a Zheng Yuan Tew, or “Stacie,” already common goal. knows something about that. She has relatives who live in Las Vegas and California and was making her third visit to the United States. Language differences aside, Bobby Demofonte said the students from both countries see a strong work ethic and a good education as the key to a happy, successful life.
The 15-year-old wasn’t sure if she will spend her senior year studying here, but fellow sophomore “Wendy,” Yu Zhiwen, said she would like to make further use of the English she has been studying side by side with Chinese since kindergarten. “I would like to study in an American university,” Wendy said, “maybe mathematics or something medical.” Jinfan Qian, who goes by “Eric,” made a special memory on the flight the students took from Chicago to Pittsburgh.
“Leo thought of the design and drew it out,” said Alivia, 17. “The rest of us are helping to paint it.” The people “expect something,” as they reach upward, Leo said while painting the angel’s wings. “In Chinese culture, an angel always helps people when they need help.” The 15-year-old added that the mural expressed “the hope for “The pilot let me get in the cockpit friendship between China and seat,” he said. “He America. All people from all over the and sit in his talked to me a little bit about how world want peace.”
In Sharpsville, they had an American-style lunch of burgers and hot dogs with baked beans in the school cafeteria. Beckman said “one student for sure, and maybe as many as four” will be enrolling and paying tuition through American Scholar Group for classes at one or more of the local high schools they visited. The four murals the students painted will hang in the cafeteria, Dadich said, as part of the sister school relationship between the two high schools.
WE MADE THE PAPER! THE SHARON HERALD
WHO’S DRIVING THE BOAT!!?
DAY 4
BOATING WITH ALICE & CORKY
Presque Isle State Park is a 3,112-acre Pennsylvania state park on an arching, sandy peninsula that juts into Lake Erie, 4 miles (6 km) west of the city of Erie, Pennsylvania, in the United States. The peninsula sweeps northeastward, surrounding Presque Isle Bay along the park’s southern coast. Popular activities at the park include swimming, boating, hiking, biking, and birdwatching.
DAY 5
presque isle
(ON AMERICAN EDUCATION SYSTEM) “I LIKE IT BECAUSE IT BRINGS ME FREEDOM. I CAN CHOOSE THE COURSES I REALLY LIKE TO STUDY. IN ADDITION, TEACHERS AND STUDENTS ARE EQUAL IN AMERICA,THAT MEANS THEY WILL HAVE A GOOD RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN EACH OTHER..” - ERIC
DAY 6
TOUR OF CASE WESTERN UNIVERSITY
DAY 6
THE ROCK & ROLL HALL OF FAME AND MUSEUM IS A MUSEUM LOCATED ON THE SHORE OF LAKE ERIE IN DOWNTOWN CLEVELAND, OHIO, UNITED STATES. IT IS DEDICATED TO ARCHIVING THE HISTORY OF SOME OF THE BEST-KNOWN AND MOST INFLUENTIAL ARTISTS, PRODUCERS, ENGINEERS AND OTHERS WHO HAVE, IN SOME MAJOR WAY, INFLUENCED THE MUSIC INDUSTRY.
rock & roll hall of fame museum
DAY 7
KAYAKING @ RIVERSIDE PARK
HOW DO I KAYAK?
CARRIED AWAY RECREATION HAS A FLEET OF KAYAKS AND CANOES FOR RENT TO ENJOY LOCAL WATERWAYS & LAKES. SCOUTS, ORGANIZED GROUPS, FAMILIES OR JUST FRIENDS CAN ENJOY PADDLING DOWN THE NEWLY OPENED CHANNEL ON SHENANGO RIVER.
AMERICA’S OLDEST STATE PARK, NIAGARA FALLS STATE PARK STANDS TODAY AS AN AMERICAN ICON AND ENDURING LEGACY OF THE VISIONARIES WHO WORKED TO SAVE IT FOR GENERATIONS TO COME.
DAY 8
NIAGRA FALLS
TAYLOR’S
JOURNAL
TAYLOR’S
PHOTOS!
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THIEL COLLEGE IS A PRIVATE, LIBERAL ARTS, SCIENCES AND PROFESSIONAL STUDIES COLLEGE IN GREENVILLE, PENNSYLVANIA THIEL COLLEGE STARTED IN 1866 FOLLOWING A MEETING BETWEEN THE REV. DR. WILLIAM PASSAVANT AND A. LOUIS THIEL. THIEL (PRONOUNCED “TEEL”) IS SITUATED ON A 135-ACRE (55 HA) CAMPUS IN THE SMALL WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA TOWN OF GREENVILLE, WHICH IS ABOUT HALFWAY BETWEEN CLEVELAND ANDTHIEL COLLEGE IS A PRIVATE, LIBERAL ARTS, SCIENCES AND PROFESSIONAL STUDIES COLLEGE IN GREENVILLE, PENNSYLVANIA. THIEL COLLEGE STARTED IN 1866 FOLLOWING A MEETING BETWEEN THE REV. DR. WILLIAM PASSAVANT AND A. LOUIS THIEL. THIEL IS SITUATED ON A 135-ACRE CAMPUS IN THE SMALL WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA TOWN OF GREENVILLE, WHICH IS ABOUT HALFWAY BETWEEN CLEVELAND AND PITTSBURGH.
DAY 9
TOUR OF THIEL COLLEGE
DAY 9
TYE-DYING SHIRTS @ THIEL COLLEGE
DAY 9
PRETENDING TO BE NEWS ANCHORS & MAKING FRIENDS WITH TOMMY THE TOMCAT
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I THINK THE FACILITIES THERE ARE SO GREAT, EVEN THE BEST UNIVERSITY IN SHANGHAI —FUDAN UNIVERSITY CAN NOT COMPARE TO IT. AND I REALLY ENJOYED THE ACTIVITIES ESPECIALLY ‘PAINTING ON THE T-SHIRT ‘, IT WAS GREAT FUN. I LIKE THE COLOUR PRETTY MUCH, AFTER GO BACK TO CHINA, I WILL DO THE SAME THING AGAIN! - TAYLOR
DAY 9
FEEDING FISH @ SPILLWAY, PYMATUNING
WESTMINSTER COLLEGE IS A NATIONALLY RANKED TOP-TIER LIBERAL ARTS COLLEGE NESTLED IN THE HEART OF NEW WILMINGTON, PENNSYLVANIA. FOUNDED IN 1852, WESTMINSTER COLLEGE IS RANKED 116TH AMONG NATIONAL LIBERAL ARTS COLLEGES BY U.S. NEWS & WORLD REPORT AND ALONGSIDE HARVARD, PRINCETON, AND YALE, AS ONE OF THE TOP 25 NORTHEASTERN PRIVATE COLLEGES BY GREAT VALUE COLLEGES. WESTMINSTER IS ALSO HONORED AS ONE OF “THE BEST 379 COLLEGES” BY THE PRINCETON REVIEW, AND IS NAMED TO THE PRESIDENT’S HONOR ROLL FOR EXCELLENCE IN SERVICE LEARNING. RECENTLY, FORBES.COM RANKED WESTMINSTER #1 IN SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY, AND MATHEMATICS (STEM) PROGRAM FOR WOMEN IN THE US.
DAY 10 TOUR OF WESTMINSTER COLLEGE
DAY 10 TOUR OF APPLE CASTLE
GRACE’S JOURNAL
GRACE’S
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LE PLE CAST P A O T T ANT ED WE WEN SO WE PL L A D N A ! REAT! TODAY IT IS SO G ! T N A L P OUR OWN - GRACE
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DAY 10 LEARNING ABOUT BEES & HONEY
WENDY’S JOURNAL
WENDY’S
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AN MADE US L O R A C ICH , TODAY INNER WH D E L B A T IT WAS UNFORGET HUO GUO!!! P U E D S A WAS M ALL OF U T A H T IC T S LY SO FANTA HOW LOVE ! N U F T A HAD GRE - WENDY CAROL IS!
MERCER COUNTY’S COURT HOUSE HAS BURNED DOWN FROM FIRE TWICE IN ITS 208 YEAR HISTORY. ONCE IN 1866 AND ONCE IN 1907. THE PRESENT COURTHOUSE WAS ERECTED IN 1909.
DAY 11 MERCER COURT HOUSE HISTORY
I OBJECT!
DAY 11 MERCER HISTORY TOUR
DAY 12
UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH TOUR
AND GETTING A BIRD’S EYE VIEW OF PITTSBURGH FROM THE TOP OF MOUNT WASHINGTON!
Take me out to the Ball Game!
DAY 12
PIRATES VS DODGERS LET’S GO BUCS!
DAY 13 CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY
DAY 13 CARNEGIE ART & HISTORY MUSEUMS
DAY 14 & 15
HORSEBACK RIDING @ COOKS FOREST STATE PARK COWBOY UP!
DAY 16
GONE WITH THE WIND THEMED RESTAURANT: TARA
DAY 16 TOUR OF GREENVILLE AIRPORT
DAY 17 ROCKET DAY!
DAY 17 MASQUERADE BALL
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