September 2009

Earlier this year, back in the summer term of my first academic year at university, I was lucky enough to win one of 10 places on the Vice Chancellor's Mandarin Scholarship which meant myself and 9 others from my university could go to Beijing to study an intensive mandarin language course for 4 weeks at the Beijing Language and Culture University (BLCU). Flights, tuition and accommodation being paid for by the university :D