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268 meters up #pearltvtower #shanghai #china (at 东方明珠塔 | Oriental Pearl Tower)
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Some pictures of my first week in China. Flights from Portland, ME to JFK, JFK to Tokyo, Tokyo to Beijing, and finally Beijing to Shanghai.
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NSLI-Y, PDO and Shanghai
Sorry for the lack of posting as I was trying to sort everything out regarding internet restrictions in China.
A little background on NSI-Y
NSLI-Y is a national language program fully funded by the US Department of State, providing full scholarships to select group of high school students to study abroad for a year or summer long language intensives in a critical language, languages not commonly taught in American high schools and needed for the future success of the US. These languages include Persian, Russian, Mandarin, Korean, Arabic, Hindi, and Turkish. Students are selected as ones poised to leaders and international sensitive citizens in the 21st century. The program is an amazing opportunity, sending 650 American high schoolers abroad on a full scholarship. It covers everything, domestic and international flights, visas, a cell phone, housing in a host family or dorms, orientations in the US, support abroad, and even a stipend of spending money.
I first heard of NSLI-Y from a past alumnae of the Russia program and from my chinese teacher. The applications first came out online around September and due in early winter. The application was a lot like a college app, short essays, short answer questions, teacher and parent recommendations, transcript, extracurriculars, and background info on yourself. I really didn’t spend much time on it, cranking out the essays at the last minute, but apparently that was enough. The recommendations and essays were weighted far greater then GPA or extracurriculars. The readers are far more interested in creative thinking and passion for language learning, not solely a perfect GPA.
Applicants are weeded down to about 1500 semifinalists, chosen in the early spring from the online application and are selected for an online or in person interview. My interview lasted about an hour and she was looking for maturity, curiosity, and passion for learning. In early April I found out I was selected to into the Chinese summer program! Countless documents, emails, and conference calls later I boarded a plane in Portland for my flight to my first orientation in New York City.
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