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记得当时,有好几个墨西哥朋友要找我合作做生意,一个是希望我能帮着他们和华为合作;另外一个希望帮助他们进口中国的货物。最有意思的是,我常常被请去教中文,有钱人家的孩子,除了在国际学校学习外,还会选择学习中文,因为他们认为中国是世界的未来。我的学生里还包括已经在企业上班的管理人员,也有从西班牙来做桥梁工作的工程师一家,都因为中国是他们看重的未来。
2010年,在墨西哥待了两年之后,我选择去欧洲度Erasmus项目的研究生,同来自22个不同国家的25名同学一起,学习comparative local development, 这样的学习生活是非常多彩的,学知识的同时也可以更同学学习不同国家的文化。两年时间内我在意大利9个月,匈牙利3个月,以色列一年。
回到家乡2012年,研究生毕业,我考虑了很久之后决定回国。一直都觉得自己比较幸运,可以有机会并且有家里的经济支持出国,但宁夏的多数孩子是没有这样的机会的。所以我希望能把我自己所学所经历的这些,可以通过当年夏令营的方式,让孩子们通过那个看到世界,认识到人生可以有很多的选择。所以我放弃了以色列高薪的工作offer,回到了宁夏。
当时身边的朋友都会觉得不可思议,我在国外待得好好的,怎么就回来了呢?即使回国,去大城市也应该发展的更好啊,但是我却选择了让大家都费解的一条路。
宁夏的变化从2003到2012,我有九年的时间没有在银川生活。大学时我一年回家一到两次,每次回来都会有新的变化;出国之后,我两年回来一次,每次除了家门口那一片老小区外,其他很多地方都不再是记忆中的模样。2012年回国时,因为行李太多,我是从北京坐火车回来的,到了银川火车站,全新的车站让我觉得这个城市我已经不太认识了,弟弟开车来接我,一直都开到离家只有5分钟,我才认出来是哪里。我惊讶于银川那几年的变化之大,曾经从老城到新城坐火车,中间必经一段农田,现在竟全是高楼林立,马路也变宽了,还有很多我根本不认识的新路,新的高楼大厦,以前的老城,新城,新市区都连到了一起,俨然一个大城市,不再是那个东西只有2公里多的城市了。
通过国际夏令营让孩子们看到世界2013年年初,我开始筹备第一个UP!国际夏令营,请了我当年在人大及国外的十个不同国家的朋友来一起,包括我在墨西哥认识的丹麦朋友Sally及Mathilde,大学认识的巴西朋友Rodrigo,以色列是认识的朋友Oded,在银川骑行时认识的澳大利亚朋友Ramon,萨摩亚驻华大使的女儿Marissa等十人,创作出一个地球村一样的生活环境,和宁夏的孩子们生活10天,通过我们的活动让彼此之间没有国籍的隔阂,更多的是通过外国大哥哥大姐姐们的经历,也让孩子们看到,人生可以有多种可能。
夏令营一做就是六年,每年我都不遗余力的从身边的外国朋友或者来过夏令营的朋友那里,经过层层选拔,邀请不同国家的优秀青年来到宁夏,至今已有近50个国家的60多名志愿者来过UP!。
让我更加惊喜的是,原本只是觉得宁夏的孩子们会收获很大,第一次和外国哥哥姐姐们做朋友,用英语交流等等,尤其是夏令营每年都会有近1/3的弱势家庭的孩子会来参与我们的活动。但是没想到的是,来的外国朋友却也对UP!的活动印象深刻。因为他们第一次感受到了真正的中国孩子对他们的热情与爱。经常听到来过营地的外国朋友说,这是他们在中国最开心最印象深刻的记忆。
“NX Summer Camp was a wonderful experience where I met a lot of passionate people. After some time, the kids where treating me as a friend, not a foreigner: it healed a deep bruise that I got living in China and trying to get along with people that don’t see me as an equal. Having fun with those children made me feel like a child, like a person again. I highly recommend this wonderful exchange of knowledge and energy!”
2013 Culture Ambassador Rodrigo, Brazil
“Ningxia Summer Camp 2013 was a global gathering, bringing diverse professional experiences, cultures, ideas at one camp to teach, learn, and share knowledge and life with young minds with great spirits who want to make Global China an innovative, creative, cooperative China. Simply it was a wonderful learning with fun and smiling time.”
2013 Culture Ambassador Arif, Pakistan
“The camp was a very nice experience for me as a human being. The Chinese kids were amazing and asked many questions. I enjoyed teaching them and sharing my knowledge, my culture with them. In addition, I met new friends. For the first time, I met a lady from Lebanon and a gentleman from Pakistan. In the beginning I was quite worried but very quickly we became good friends. They have also never met an Israeli, so we both were very curious and asked lots of questions. Now I also have good friends from Denmark, Samoa, Australia, Brazil, Colombia and Mexico. I had a chance to learn new things and it was an amazing experience!”
2014 Culture Ambassador Oded, Israel
I'm very happy I went to Ningxia for the UP! Summer Camp. I saw a little-known part of China, got away from the heat of the cities, and met some amazing kids, locals, and fellow travelers. I would say: be silly, be creative, be open, and be yourself. When volunteers try new things and act fun/silly/weird, the students slowly open up and try new things too - we even got some local parents dancing and putting on face paint! I can't fully describe the experience here - go check it out yourself! I'll come back if I am in China again!
2015 Culture Ambassador Sally, the United Sates
Last summer, in the midst of my internship in Beijing, I was sent as a volunteer for UP! for the first time to Ningxia province. I had never been to Ningxia or an away camp, but I decided to soak up new experiences. From Day 1 of camp, our fearless leader Kiki made sure that our campers knew this was summer camp not school. For most of these kids, summer camp was an entirely new experience. Calling the camp counselors something other than “foreign teacher” and “Chinese teacher” was definitely an adjustment for the students, many of which had never even seen a foreigner in real life before.
Every day was fun-filled, packed with culture and English classes as well as interest classes and other activities. In my small group, I saw the shyest girl bloom into the most talkative. In my class, I saw the most polite boy transform into the monkey king. I saw one of the Longde village girls become best friends with the city girls from Yinchuan, and I saw the socially awkward 12 year-old boy belt out Beyoncé.
Kiki’s summer camp gave each kid a chance to shine in his or her own way, whether it was singing, acting, or running. Less importantly, it gave me a chance to be a part of it. Many Chinese students rarely, if ever, get the chance to explore their passions in such a supportive environment, but this summer 60 of them blossomed because of Kiki. What Kiki Chen has done for these kids with only the help of some volunteers is really amazing, and by the end of my trip I was begging The Hutong to let me stay on for the Shangri-La camp.
2016 Culture Ambassador Margie, the United Sates
I worked with the most energetic, crazy, funny and amazing kids I could have imagined and by the end of the camp they thought me that beautiful and creative things happen when you learn to leave your expectations at the door and embrace everyday as it comes. Each and every one of them had her and his own personality, talents and quirks and it kept me busy, entertained and happy to be part of the UP! Camp.
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