Classmate Lu is a capable girl, generous in conversation and clear in her thinking. In the 12th grade, she attended Austin College in Changzhou, which is represented by blue.
"The personality of our college students is very similar to the sea, the still water is deep, the surface is quiet and peaceful, but the heart is surging with unyielding strength." Speaking of her college, Lu is very proud.
In this year's application season, Lu has received an offer from Boston University, taking a solid step towards her "legal dream". In the future, she also plans to continue her studies at the Fa Master's Degree.
Lu, who has considerable leadership ability, has blossomed in terms of campus life and academic coursework, and this successful acquisition of the desired offer is only a microcosm of her personal excellence.
In Changzhou Waiya, she strives to explore her true self, and after finding the right path, she unswervingly goes on.
Reasons to choose WAIS
Lu entered Changzhou Wai ya in 2018, and before that, she had attended a middle school in the United States, which was a more liberal school, but Lu always felt that the overly loose learning atmosphere was not suitable for her, so she proposed to her parents to find a new school.
The family compared for a long time, and finally saw Changzhou Weiya at an exhibition, and Lu said that he could say that he was "in love at first sight" for the school.
"When I visited the campus, I felt that the Changzhou Waiya campus was very large and there were many extracurricular activities, so I thought, right here!" Lu described her first impression of the school like this, with a smile on the corner of her mouth.
WAIS School
Colorful ECAs
Since its inception, VAY has adhered to the concept of whole-person education as ever, actively encouraging and fully supporting the development of students' individual interests.
30+ sports projects, 10 hours of exercise per week is enough to witness, the spirit of sports flows in the blood of every Changzhou Wai Ya students; the school provides one-on-one teaching of more than 20 kinds of musical instruments and music courses, and opens one-on-one teaching of traditional Chinese instruments such as guzheng, bamboo flute and flute.
The theater and the black box theater give Changzhou Wai Ya students drama education not only the training of performance skills, but also the guidance of children to experience and create immersively; in addition, there are independent art classrooms, senior art classrooms, pottery classrooms, photography special darkrooms and other facilities, as well as all kinds of design equipment - 3D printers, carpentry, cutting, welding... Rich art space that can accommodate all the whimsy.
Perhaps, lu students are in a variety of extracurricular development projects and even out-of-school development activities, seeing the infinite possibilities that Changzhou Waiya will bring her.
Among them, it is necessary to mention the "beyond classroom learning" WIA super course. In the summer of 2021, Lu completed a walking tour of Inner Mongolia with teachers and peers - they spent 4 days and hiked 75 kilometers to successfully cross the Hulunbuir Grassland.
Inner Mongolia walking tour
During these four days, they used only a map to locate the direction on the Hulunbuir grassland, most of the time along the farm path. Students are well-behaved and at ease with orientation and camping and cooking, thanks in large part to the fact that the school has often organized hiking camping trips before.
On the fourth day, they were also fortunate enough to see a herd of horses crossing the field, drinking water from a small nearby puddle. Later, I met a herdsman who told the children to always pay attention to driving cattle and sheep out of the field, because the grass in the field was a hoard of food for animals to spend the winter.
This experience, which is completely different from city life, has made every child involved gain a lot of new and exotic news, and it has also become a stroke of Lu's memories in Wai ya.
Bonded with the law
Classmate Lu has always been a child who likes to try everything.
During her four years at Changzhou Waiya, in addition to hiking through the Hulunbuir Grassland, she also led the organization of the school's outdoor adventure tour of Yunnan.
In addition, she led the girls of her college to shine and win awards in the annual college choir competition; she also explored freely in the fields of fine arts and biomedicine; strategized in business competitions, and fought in moot court...
In her IGCSE-level examinations, she took three subjects in mathematics, physics and chemistry, English language and English language and literature, art and photography, economics, business, and biology.
The endless stage provided by Changzhou Weiya allows her to bloom herself and explore with all her might; the character who loves to try everything has also been best cultivated and exercised in this fertile soil of education.
In the process of continuous experimentation and exploration, Lu students have been associated with law since after reading Plato's "Republic".
In fact, before this, no one in Lu's family had ever worked in law-related work, and I had hoped that she could go to business.
However, Lu's firmness still made her family make concessions, and since she decided to take this road, she will do her best to make sufficient preparations, which is her original intention to apply for Boston University, and it is also the starting point of all possibilities in the future.
Planning for the future
Before applying, Lu did not have a definite understanding of what a real lawyer looks like. Therefore, she strives to try to break down this cognitive barrier in various ways.
First of all, she found teachers in the school who had also studied related majors before, and through chatting with them, she gradually found out what a legal person should look like - logical and meticulous, active thinking, fortunately, this is also the outstanding trait of Lu Students;
Subsequently, she searched the Internet for real lawyer stories and legal cases, and also applied for a project from a well-known law professor, and participated in many moot court battles.
Through various channels, Lu learned that studying law is not an easy way. "But, I'm ready." Lu said confidently, "Even if you encounter difficulties, you can overcome them." ”
"There is no road in this world, but the more people who walk, the more they become the road", as the famous saying says, many roads depend on people to go out, the more they understand this profession and this profession, the more Firm Lu's belief in engaging in this line will be.
She's even got her way forward — to be a lawyer in patent law. After that, she will go to the United States to study, and the legal system will be very different from that in China, but patent law is internationally accepted.
On the one hand, you can broaden your horizons and study different legal systems from different perspectives; you can also dig deeper into the content that interests you from a more detailed perspective.
Looking back on his application season and the upcoming university campus life, Lu is excited and looking forward to it. She repeatedly stressed, "You must try more things to really find your passion." This also coincides with WAISA's long-standing educational philosophy of "every child is outstanding".
Maybe the road ahead is not easy, there are storms and storms, there are lonely nights, but when a person really finds a direction that he is willing to fight for, then nothing will stop him, the footsteps that run wild towards the dream!
【About WAIS School】
With the philosophy of "Every Child Can Excel" and the mission of "Committed to Academic Excellence, Practicing Whole-Person Education, Laying Roots in China, and Cultivating World Talents", VAS School builds a learning community that integrates the essence of Chinese and Western education and pays attention to the personalized growth and development of each student for students aged 3-18. To date, two schools that adhere to and practice the concept of whole-person education have been successfully held, WY AW Changzhou and WAIN Hong Kong, and two new schools, WY GY Hangzhou and WYER Nanjing, have also officially opened in September 2021.
Changzhou Wai ya
In September 2016, the first VAY school was held in Changzhou, Jiangsu Province. Located on the shore of the beautiful West Taihu Lake, the school covers an area of 150 acres, with advanced and modern campus facilities, and has its own rowing pier and air film sports hall.
Changzhou VAY enrolls students aged 3-18 and opens college boarding for students over 7 years old, and the current number of students in school is about 1300. It adopts small class sizes, adhering to the educational vision of "every child is outstanding" and the concept of whole-person education. Not only attaches importance to the cultivation of students' excellent academic ability, but also comprehensively enhances core literacy and global vision through a full range of high-quality expansion courses such as music, art, sports and other high-quality development courses and rich and challenging study tour projects, and cultivates a group of future young leaders with responsibility and ambition who have entered the world's famous universities.
WAISA Hong Kong
Adhering to the whole-person education philosophy, HKV School provides students in Grades 1 to 8 with high-quality Chinese and English language learning and immersive language environment, as well as a rich and exciting after-school curriculum, aiming to produce outstanding graduates with both Chinese cultural heritage and global vision.
As one of the few international schools in Hong Kong to implement simplified Chinese character teaching, the school has become the first choice for Hong Kong families who care about quality education with solid Chinese teaching. A rich curriculum, advanced education teaching methods and a comprehensive support and guidance system can prepare students for further education in Hong Kong, Chinese mainland, the UK and around the world, from academic to physical and mental aspects, and the Secondary Development Programme is also in preparation.
Hangzhou Wai ya
Located on the banks of Fairy Lake in Hangzhou's Xiaoshan District, Hangzhou Wai Ya School covers an area of more than 200 acres and officially opened in September 2021, providing high-quality education and boarding options for school-age students aged 3 to 18.
Adhering to the concept of whole-person education, HANGZHOU WAISA not only focuses on the cultivation of students' academic excellence, but also explores the talents and potential of each student by providing a rich and diverse learning experience and opportunities that go beyond the classroom, helping them to successfully enter a world-renowned university in the future and lay a solid foundation for success in an increasingly global environment.
Nanjing Wai ya
Nanjing VAI Experimental School is located in Tangshan, Jiangning District, Nanjing, enjoying the unique natural environment and profound cultural resources of the Zidong area. The school officially opened in September 2021 and offers high-quality education and boarding options for school-age students aged 3 to 18.
At the beginning of the school design, Nanjing Wai Ya School integrated the concept of whole-person education into every corner of the campus to ensure that the school's hardware facilities are in place to meet the requirements of students in learning, life and other aspects, so that students can not only develop excellent academic ability, but also develop moral character, artistic literacy and sports potential in an all-round way, and become a truly outstanding global citizen.