Leo Catinella of Norton, a junior at Boston College High School, together with 11 other BC High students and under the guidance of faculty members Michael Gardner and Ms. Yi-ching Yang, recently participated in BC High's 12th annual Beijing Summer Seminar.
The Beijing Seminar is a four-week academic exchange program offered by BC High in conjunction with High School Number 2 in Beijing, China.
While in China, Catinella attended intensive daily language classes, as well as classes in history and Chinese culture . He lived with a host family to fully immerse himself in everything the Chinese culture has to offer and he received academic credit for this experience.
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Catinella and the group also participated in excursions to the Forbidden City, the Great Wall of China and the ancient city of Xi'an.
BC High offers similar academic exchange programs in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Lyon, France and Dublin, Ireland. As BC High continues to plan for the opening of the Lawrence H. Hyde '42 Center for Global Education, a new program in Tanzania will be offered in 2014.
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PHOTO: Longmen Grottoes: Housing tens of thousands of statues of Buddha and his disciples. The images, many once painted, were carved into caves excavated from the limestone cliffs of the Xiangshan and Longmenshan mountains.
Front row, left to right - Todd Davison, Leo Catinella, Terence Lau, Luke Rafferty, Tim Chu
Back row left to right - Mitch Hickey, Marcus Bockhurst, Addison Cartwright, Grant Herbert, Michael Cadigan, Alan Swierczynski, Michael Vitale
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