We don’t know how lucky we are

23rd July 2019

It’s almost a week since our students have left their warm and cozy home and took a long-haul flight to meet this unique place – Cambridge. Despite their young age, almost all found themselves a second home here with our teachers and leaders. However, that wasn’t that easy.

For the very first time, they have to learn to clean up after their breakfast, they start to worry about their own laundry, they all are required to speak in a foreign language than the one that they are familiar with. In the beginning, some felt homesick, some were frightened of a bee in the wild, some don’t know what they have ordered in a restaurant. Everything looks so different from home, yet, everything adds up to their daily English Immersion Experience.

Now that when we look back, students have already had their bushcraft workshop in the wild making their bracelets, building their own shelter and lighting their own fire, they have also made their personalised keyring with 3D laser cutting technique, they have learnt to build their LEGO model, and made their first Italian cuisine, and went for the signature punting on River Cambridge! They have learnt to immerse themselves in the English environment and learnt like a Cambridge student!

Quoted from one of our Cambridge student leaders, she shared her experience of her sitting next to a Nobel Prize winner at a formal dinner when she arrived Cambridge, she then realised ‘we don’t know how lucky we are today, when we are sitting or talking to a person here in Cambridge, who might be tomorrow’s scholar, who might be winning the Nobel Prize a year after, who might make that change and contribute to a significant part of the world that shapes our future. And yet, we don’t know how lucky we are today’.

We only have two weeks left until the day we have to farewell our students. During these two weeks, we wish you all continue to enjoy your journey here in Cambridge, seize your luck, and cherish every moment that you have with Cambridge. And that one day when you return home, you will realise how lucky we are today.