Medfield Students Leave Thursday for Chinese Exchange Program
Nine Medfield students – six from the middle school and three from the high school – leave today for Bengbu, China, where they will spend nearly three weeks utilizing their Mandarin immersion classes.
Nine Medfield students and two Medfield administrators are heading to China today for a three-week cultural exchange visit in Bengbu, China, and an experience of a lifetime. “This is an amazing opportunity for all of us to learn more about the Chinese culture,” said Tracy Allen, a guidance counselor at Blake Middle School, who, along with Maura Batts, a language teacher at the high school – who started the district’s Mandarin language program after immersing herself in the language during a one-year sabbatical – will chaperone the trip. “This is an important program because of the prominence of China in the global economy, and it will also spread cultural awareness,” said Allen. “I think Chinese is a language that more and more people will…
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