“THANK YOU for organizing Lucas’ school experience. It was such a fabulous opportunity. He thoroughly enjoyed it. I believe if the opportunity arose to do it again he would love to. The staff and the students were amazing. Very caring and considerate. They were fun, sharing and thoughtful.

We knew Lucas’ reading and writing skills were almost non existent, but we were surprised his verbal skills weren’t as good as we had been told here in Australia so it was extremely valuable to be immersed in the language. He has come home enthused and encouraged and is attending to his Chinese studies with more vigor now – thanks to his experience in China.

I would highly recommend the program to anyone. We have had previous attempts to get a genuine immersion opportunity for Lucas and our previous attempts failed due to poor programs. This experience however was fabulous. Genuine full immersion – which was exactly what we wanted.

Please pass on our thanks to the students and staff at the school once again. Maybe we can come back and do it again? Thank you to you too Kevin. It was all very smoothly organized and went exactly according to plan.”

Lucas & Colleen Harkin from Australia 

“Our daughter Nicole (8 years old) attended the Baijiazhuang School for 3 weeks in Dec 2015. That was hers, and ours, very first experience attending the real Chinese school (or a school outside of Canada). And we can say that was a true fascinating experience for out whole family!

The very first impression of the school, from the school appearance, staff, pupils etc. – was very positive. We have to admit that school was presented in much better way than most public schools we have seen in Canada (and even on the level of Canadian private school). And that impression did not leave us during whole 3 weeks of attendance.

Since neither myself nor my wife speak Chinese and also since there were no homework given to Nicole – it’s hard to judge on the details of the curriculum. But general school looks quite good.

Our daughter was very happy to get up every morning and go to school. And mind you, she had to get up much earlier, than she used to in Canada (6:00 AM in China vs. 7:30 AM in Canada). She loved her teacher – Zhao Laoshi. And she liked her classmates (whom she wants to stay in touch via WeChat, while back in Canada).

We were also very impressed with organization of the class performance for Christmas Day, the quality, fulfillment, and skills sets of the organizers and the participants (pupils). The New Year Eve day – was also very impressive and showed students from different perspective of their skills and interests.

At the end it was quite sad for us, when we had to say good-bye to the school, the teacher and the classmates. We really hope we will another opportunity to meet and/or attend this school again.”

Nicole, Vlad & Rita Kot from Canada