Since 2012, groups of Shanghai American School Grade 8 students have taken four-week journeys to the village of Xizhou in Southwest China's Yunnan Province as participants in the school's Microcampus program. As representatives of their campuses, these students leave the "bubble" of their home city of 22 million people and become immersed in a new community of 2000 people, 2000 kilometers from home, at 2000 meters above sea level.
The Wildfires group--the twenty-third--were in Xizhou from March 9th through April 5th, 2019. Guests from around the world are encouraged to follow their journey--reading about, responding to, and joining in the learning adventure.
Featured Projects
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My Inquiry Project is Music. I love music, and I would like to see the differences between the music that people listen to in Xizhou and the kind of music we listen to here. When I am sad, I listen to upbeat music and it takes my mind... more
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I have chosen to study Bai Minority music. I will interview local musicians, see how instruments are made, find the meaning behind the pieces, and hope to play a couple of pieces in the process. I believe that I will get to truly interact with the locals this way, and get to... more
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I choose to study ethnic minority issues because this topic is very interesting to me. Learning about conflicts between different minority groups sounds like a very interesting topic. I think this topic is important to me because the issues that the Minority... more
