Culture, Teamwork and Nature Camp
LEAD CULTURAL EXCHANGE ACTIVITIES & GAIN VALUBLE EXPERIENCELocation
Hangzhou
Duration
4th July – 28th July 2019
Living Expenses
As with all programmes, all accommodation, food, airport transfer in China, cultural trips, mandarin lessons and activities are included.
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You will help run a series of fun activities for Chinese children and engage in cultural exchange workshops.
Programme Details
Time & Location
Contact hours
8 hours: 9:00 – 11:00; 14:00 – 18:00; Occasional evening activities.
Location
Hangzhou
Excursion options
TBC (will be local to Hangzhou)
Other benefits
This camp is focused on:
1. basic surviving skills in nature
2. good living habit
3. making friends
4. being confident
5. being independent
For Ambassadors, you will stay both in central Hangzhou, and also at the camping resort – gaining an experience of both areas! There are cultural trips to local area, free time, Chinese culture lessons, wildlife and nature lessons (led by an expert), outdoor activities and Mandarin lessons.
Programme Details
Main purpose
1. basic surviving skills in nature
2. good living habit
3. making friends
4. being confident
5. being independent
Student details
15-20 students per class
6-15 years old
Level of English will vary
Pre-programme training
Arrival to China will be on 4th July, with time to relax and explore Hangzhou city. Training will begin on 6th July, at the Camp resort. (2 full days)
Coordinator
There will be Chinese staff who speak English in every area, alongside the programme leader
Speciality of the programme
Nature, independence, leadership, outdoor survival skills (such as making camps and shelters)
Programme arrangement
Day 1: Opening Ceremony, Identifying poisonous items in nature/dealing with incidents of posion, Ice Breaking Party
Day 2:Searching Building Materials, Making Shelters, Performances
Day 3: Natural Surviving, Access to Water, Natural Melody
Day 4: Trap Making and Animal Hunting, Practice, Leadership Night
Day 5: Making Fire, Practice, Cooking Night
Day 6: Battlegrounds, Camping Comprehensive, Primal Tribe Party
Day 7: Closing Ceremony, Free Time.
Benefits for ambassadors
Mandarin Lessons, Chinese Culture Lessons, Visits to Historical/Cultural Places, Development of Survival Skills, Support from Specialist, Visits to City and Rural Area, Staying in beautiful nature reserve, watersports.
Welfare
Local temperature
Around 28 – 30 Celsius
Meal
On campus, three meals a day
15-30 RMB compensation per meal (if not eat on camp)
Drinking water available
Accommodation
Hotel Accommodation (potentially camping accommodation at campsite)
- Twin Rooms
- Private Bathroom (Western style)
Testimonial & Gallery
HOW A MONTH IN CHINA CHANGES YOU
Have you ever wondered what sand worms taste like?
They’re DELICIOUS! Well, at least at the ones they serve at Xiamen, China of course, and no, sand worms don’t taste like chicken at all.
As part of my mission to maximise experiences before my time in this brief existence runs out, with great hesitation and apprehension, I packed me bags and flew to China for a month-long volunteering project.
Now whenever I tell people that I’m volunteering in China, the picture that forms in mind is usually that of me teaching English to poor, underprivileged kids up in the mountains or something. Although some of the volunteers have indeed been sent to rural areas, I was placed at Xiamen, which is one of the more affluent places in China (apparently the most environmentally clean in the whole of China as well!)
Hence, sorry to disappoint you but I have no experience of sharing toilets with snakes or scorpions 😛
So yeah! What have I been up to China?! Read more HERE
I traveled to Shanghai, Qi Dong, Changsha and Xiamen. I taught English to the children of poor migrant workers, I taught children who’d never been to school before. I met people from Italy, South Africa, Hungary, Russia, Romania, Spain, Egypt, the UK and more. I learned Mandarin. I learned that even if I don’t feel 28, I am definitely 28. I learned that six weeks can feel like four life times and that jet lag is real and real serious. I’m irrevocably changed by what I’ve seen and felt in China.
I feel like I left one home for another. But I’ll return. Read more HERE
Last Year Video
