Reliving my Youth by Accident

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Elena
I have learned Chinese for several years. I changed more than 3 teachers. I need a systemic and efficient studying. And I want to know more about china , Chinese and Chinese culture. Then my friend introduced me Mandarin Garden. What the teacher there gav

Alicia
Through the Chinese culture activities, I make many friends from all over the world. I learnt how to make dumplings, rice dumplings and flower arrangement. I like the activities of Mandarin Garden. They enriched my life in Shanghai.

Conni
I am glad to study in Mandarin Garden. My teacher is very nice and helpful, and the staff of the school is nice to me. I love Chinese and I love to learn Chinese. It’s very practical. I will try to learn it well.

Pierre
Mandarin Garden is a great place to get to know Chinese culture and to learn Chinese.They offer plenty of activities for an even profounder knowledge.The atmosphere is professional and at the same time relaxed.

Niels
I don’t like studying in a boring class. i wish my teacher can always be passionate and push me to study further. In Mandarin Garden, I found the right teacher for me and now I enjoy my class very much. Thanks a lot.

Tomas
I have compared several schools before my decision. I want to learn Chinese well and I also like to know Chinese culture. And I think the attitude of the teacher, the consultant here are all very positive. I like to stay with them and get the care from th

Reliving my Youth by Accident

I used to go from Classes in Siena Italy to Barcelona. It was normally fun because you got to meet lots

of people and everyone shared the food they brought along. The cars had compartment that sat 6 to 8 people.

The last time I made that trek there was standing room only. It was uncomfortable but we laughed a lot. The

last time I did it there was standing room only. A couple of Swiss students would jump out at each stop and get

wine bread etc. I’ve not taken a long distance train since the air line strike in the 60’s across the United States.

My guitar teacher Oscar Ghiglia had to get back to Rome for concerts. We were in Kansas so I was sent to

accompany him as at that time I’m in China now and we were trying to get to Guangzhou from Shanghai. I

would have flown as the flights are inexpensive but I was with two Indians from the south of India. One is an

experienced traveler and the other has never been out of his village. His father is the owner of the company we

are representing. With his inexperience and lack of available transportation he bought us standing room only

tickets. It was a total of 16 hours with no seats and an overbooked train. The fun of it was traveling with all the

locales. They were very cordial. We were the only foreigner of course and just about all were going to the Canton

Fai but no seats were available. Some sat in the sink, everyone ended up falling asleep on top of everyone else.

Everyone was in good humor except for the complaints of how uncomfortable we all were. I sat on a suit case

like I did in the sixties. Most of the Chinese has special little stools they packed up in their suitcases. Not sleeping

for twenty four hours was the worst part which is taking me two days to recover. 50 years have gone by since I

went standing room only on an overnight train. It was a fun experience but there is a reason why I haven’t done

something like that for 5o years!