What’s happening in Beijing’s international school community? Experience cultural heritage, sports matches, and more in this month’s Circuit.

BCIS PYP Exhibition 2019

This year’s Beijing City International School (BCIS) Primary Years Program (PYP) exhibition took place on June 5 and 6. The young scholars and creatives tackled a wide range of subjects including video game addiction, animal welfare, sports, and a future for humans in outer space.

Let Your Dreams Fly at Ivy Schools

At the graduation ceremony held by Ivy Bilingual School Orchid Garden Campus, children delivered a drum performance, choral singing, and role-play dance. The children worked hard in practice, and tried their best despite challenges. This grit will pave the way ahead for their future growth.

Graduation Ceremony at Beijing No.55 High School

Beijing No.55 High School International Students Section held a graduation ceremony for grade 9 and grade 12 students. Leaders, honored guests, and parents gathered together to witness this joyful and festive occasion.

Just Another Brush on the Wall

One of the main highlights of the Yew Chung International School of Beijing (YCIS Beijing) campus are its murals. Year 8 and 9 Secondary Arts students joined the Arts Co-Curricular Activity (CCA) in January with the goal of designing and producing a mural.

2019 Harrow Beijing Speech Day

On 28 June, Harrow Beijing held the annual Speech Day, an important occasion in the school calendar, when teachers, students, and parents gather together and celebrate the academic pursuits of the students. Mr. Shinkfield, the Head Master, delivered speeches and gave awards to the students for their achievements.

House of Knowledge Summer Parties

To mark the end of the 2018-2019 school year, House of Knowledge’s Chaoyang Park, Shunyi, and Xinglong Campuses each hosted an annual water-themed Summer Party. They had a great turnout, and everyone had fun.

CISB 2019 Summer Camp

Canadian International School of Beijing (CISB) students have successfully completed the first three weeks of summer camp, spending the time engaged in a series of activities. Both parents and students are very pleased with their camp experiences.

Celebrate And Share the Arts (CASTA) at ISB

International School of Beijing’s (ISB’s) annual CASTA (Celebrate And Share The Arts) festival was a colorful, all-singing, all-dancing example of how art features in a healthy, whole-child education. In art and performing art classes, elementary school students explore their creativity along with their academic pursuits.

BSB Shunyi’s Got Talent

The Primary school students at British School of Beijing, Shunyi (BSB Shunyi) showcased an impressive range of talents which included singing, dancing, instrumental performances, magic, acting, and reciting poetry at the BSB’s Got Talent Show. Congratulations to all performers who showed a high level of performance skills, risk-taking, self-confidence, and resilience on stage.

3e Charity Community Day

3e International School held their annual 3e Charity Community Day, raising over RMB 3,000 revenue for Living Water Children’s Home. Children were entertained with recycle-and-reuse-themed arts, crafts, and games organized by 3e teachers and the Parent Council.

BWYA Travels the World

Beijing World Youth Academy (BWYA) embarked on their annual trip week. The trip week is part of the Classroom Without Walls Program, aimed at taking the learning experience out of the classroom, and into new and exciting settings, covering five major areas: Culture, History, Community Service, Language Practice, and Subject Learning.

Jingxi Ancient Road Research Tour with Beijing Haidian Kaiwen Academy

Sixth grade students of Beijing Haidian Kaiwen Academy started a research and study activity on Jingxi Ancient Road in Mentougou. From Shuiyuzui Village to Niujiao Ridge, and then to the former residence of Ma Zhiyuan, students learned the history of Jingxi Ancient Road and how to identify various plants during their walk.

This article appeared in the beijingkids July-August 2019 Teen Takeover issue

On Tuesday, June 16 the Canadian International School of Beijing (CISB) celebrated their graduating class of 2015. CISB notes that of their 37 graduates, 20 students had averages above 80 percent, with four graduates reaching academic excellence with distinction, having averages above 90 percent.

Senior class leader, Wang W. had a class of average of 91.42 percent and received the prestigious Governor General’s Bronze Medallion for the highest academic standing in the graduation class during Grades 11 and 12. Wendy delivered the following valedictory address to her fellow graduates:

“Thank you Mr. Prescott. Good evening, Ambassador Saint Jacques, Dr.Pang,teachers, staff, parents, and most importantly, graduates of 2015. I am honoured to stand before you as your valedictorian today. First of all, allowed me to congratulate the class of 2015 and say that we have made it! A few days ago, I sat in front of my computer pondering what to say on this stage and so I had a flashback, beginning from the first day I stepped into this school in 2011 till the day I handed in my last IB examination to Mr.Dorey.

Photo: Courtesy of CISB

On Saturday, May 18 at Beijing City International School (BCIS), families, faculty and students celebrated the end of a chapter for the BCIS graduates of 2013. The BCIS Orchestra, inclusive of a musket, fife and traditional drum, welcomed the graduating students as they entered the auditorium. Graduates wore fancy dress beneath a black robe and cap with a red scarf and tassel – the colors of BCIS.

Students Pak Sen Man (Christina) and Liu Yipeng (Andy) shared some facts about BCIS. First, this is the largest graduating class that BCIS has seen: a total of 28 graduates. It is also the most diverse group, not in terms of nationality, but “the most diverse group of minds.” Graduates have an expressed interest in a variety of fields from the world of finance, mathematics, engineering, and art to philosophy and law.

Accompanied by a piano, Graduate Yue Sida (Steven) followed with a clarinet solo, “Light in the City.”

Students Anthea Low Yen Teng and Hao Jing welcoming Head of School Nick Bowley to the stage. Bowley delivered an encouraging, inspiring speech to all. He began describing his first day of work as an educator in Khartoum, the capital of Sudan. Looking back, Bowley reflected: He has worked in eight countries at ten different schools. “[He has] had more adventures of the body and the mind than anyone is entitled to,” as he said.

And on this day, he expressed his pride in “the finest and most interesting graduating class that [he has] known.” Echoing the thoughts of Pak Sen Man and Liu Yipeng on the group’s diversity, he explained that the graduating class is like a “very mighty atom” because “each of [of them] has retained a striking individuality with […] different personalities.” He revealed an image of all the words that the teachers would use to describe the 2013 graduates; words like cohesive, responsible, compassionate, energetic, fun, driven, caring, collaborative, active, motivated and diligent.

He explained that he is also impressed by this group of graduates due to the role models they have become for their peers. Bowley concluded his speech with a few bits of advice, the first one being about falling in love. Opposites might attract, but he warned the graduates against applying this law of physics to relationships. As “extraordinary positive” people, he urged them to be wary of attraction to negativity, and to “fall in love with someone who will enhance the possibilities of your life story and you theirs.” His “second rule of life” is to not do as your told, but rather “do more than is expected of you.” And his final piece of advice was to “don’t grow up too fast, or, even better, don’t grow up at all,” in the sense that we should keep our young minds full of “intense curiosity and boundless imagination.”

To read Nick Bowley’s speech in full, scroll to the bottom of the blog.

The graduation continued, as the crowd was moved by the Grade 12 Ensemble – Ashley Biack, Cheung Michelle, Hao Jing, Hayashi Natsuki, Kano Ito, Kim Charn Woon, Cheryl Lim, Anthea Low, Shi Qiliang (Ricky), Chia-Chen Yang (Denise), Yue Sida (Steven), Mona Xia, and Xu Yeshuai – singing Breakaway (written by A. Levine, M. Gerrard and B. Beneate). Next, each of the graduates received a gift and their diploma from Chairman BCIS Board of Trustees Chen Lixiang, Bowley, and IBDP Coordinator Nick Daniel.

Valedictorian Mona Xia took the podium next. She began with her memories of first moving to China and having difficulties letting go of her past life in the US. “Recently, I’ve been scared that I will feel homeless again as I head off to college. I’m scared that my mom will forget which seat is mine at the dinner table,” she said. While BCIS has been a home to many of the students for the past few years, Xia explained that soon “it [will]no longer [be]our “home” in a conventional sense” and reminded us of the phrase “Home is where the heart is.” She declared, “We no longer define ourselves by the physical environment which we are accustomed to, but rather the mental landscape that we have created for ourselves.” And if as children, they all forget to call their parents everyday, she said, “Lay trust in the fact that you have taught us to know where our homes are.

Afterward, the orchestra picked up their bows and wind instruments to play Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (by Tan Dun, arranged by Michael Brown).

Next on stage was Secondary School Principal Bill O’Hearn. He offered his advice to the graduates, which included: follow your passions, learn about your strengths, take academic risks, travel – because it’s the best way to learn, remember your core values, and live in the moment and visualize what you’re going to do next.

The crowd applauded in congratulations to the BCIS Class of 2013 and then the graduates passed the flame of a candle to the upcoming Class of 2014.

To view more photos of the graduation, visit our Online Gallery here.

Photos by Lova

Head of School Nick Bowley’s Speech in Full:

Distinguished guests, ladies and gentlemen, graduating students:

Man first landed on the moon on July 20, 1969. Scratchy black and white film of that momentous event was soon broadcast around the world. That evening it flickered on a boxy little television set in the back garden of a British Embassy official in Khartoum, the capital of Sudan, which was then the largest country in Africa. It was my first day of work as an educator, and the official had invited me and thirty other volunteer teachers to a reception at his house to mark the end of our one-day orientation. The next day we would be sent off to teach in schools scattered thinly around that huge desert country.

In the morning I jumped aboard a wooden sided train that would snake around River Nile’s vast northern bend towards the riverside village where I would be teaching English for the following year. I sat in my compartment talking to a young man dressed in flowing white robes. We ordered a tall jug of a deep brown drink that I assumed was the juice of an unknown fruit, but it turned out to be water drawn straight from the Nile. The brown color was river mud, which gave the water a slippery viscosity not unlike raw egg. But it tasted fine. My new friend told me that many Sudanese did not believe that the Americans had landed on the moon, nor did they care. Drinking our muddy water and gazing out over the occasional trackside donkey across the unchanging Nubian Desert, the space race, as it was then called, seemed irrelevant and even trivial.

A day later I climbed down from the train, joined a flock of goats on a small paddle steamer across the world’s greatest river and was met on the far sandy bank by the principal of the school. My work as a teacher had begun.

Forty-four years later, I can look back on a career spent in eight countries and ten schools. I have had more adventures of the body and the mind than anyone is entitled to. I have seen the world’s population nearly triple in size, and I have watched technology advance in ways that were inconceivable a few short decades ago. On the site of that Nile village where I first taught English and kept chickens in my backyard there now stands Africa’s largest hydroelectric dam, built by a Chinese corporation. More has changed in the span of my career than in any period in history.

So, Class of 2013, I have a long memory. But I can tell you something to be very proud of. You are the finest and most interesting graduating class that I have known. And I’m not alone in thinking that. Consider this…

A few weeks ago your teachers organized an assembly that I am sure you all still remember, in fact I think you will remember it forever. It was the last period of your last day of class. The theater was packed with silent students and teachers listening to an excessively boring lecture on study skills. Your homeroom teachers brought you late into the assembly and as you filed into the back of the theater you were castigated from the stage for your late arrival. Such injustice, or so it seemed. Then, on a pre-arranged signal unknown to you, the theater erupted with noise as students and teachers yelled, whistled and clapped you on to the stage to receive our best wishes and encouragement for the IB exams and for your futures. It was a good old-fashioned, raucous, joyous pep rally and it was all for you. More than that, it was the first pep rally in our school’s history. So why did it happen?

To find out, I conducted a poll of your teachers. I asked them to submit the words that they thought best described you, our Class of 2013. They plundered the English dictionary to uncover an astonishing range of adjectives that delighted me for one main reason. Every single word they submitted was positive, and every single word contributed to a picture of a class that has been much loved and admired by its teachers and which will be greatly missed when you leave. Here is the picture of you, a bilingual picture, that your teachers have painted in words. You hold your head high yet with compassion, your core is cohesive, and the wings that carry you are creative, caring and industrious. That’s how your teachers see you, and they are absolutely right. Believe me, it is extremely rare for teachers to describe a graduating class in such emphatically complimentary terms. Of all the graduating classes I have known you are the most admired and the most loved. That is why your teachers held that pep rally; beneath the pizzazz was genuine affection.

You have impressed us for two reasons more than any other. First you have achieved something that most classes do not. You have created an immensely attractive group identity, such that when we think of you we conjure up the kind of adjectives that I have just projected. But at the same time each of you has retained a striking individuality with your different personalities, talents, and interests. I think of you collectively as an atom, albeit a very mighty atom, in which the individual particles are held together by the strong force of collegiality. By that analogy the power that will be released when you go your separate ways to the far corners of the earth will be immense, but I know it will be the power of good.

The second reason is that you have achieved something that is even more unusual. Through your individual and collective character and conduct you have given more to the school than you have taken. You have been role models for your younger peers. You have studied hard, but have found time to play and coach sports, to contribute to the arts, and to pioneer our growing commitment to community service. You have developed an extraordinary relationship with your teachers that is mutually appreciative and respectful. Some of you have influenced the school in ways that are deeper than you may know. Three years ago, for example, one of you asked a question that has changed the identity of our school. It was a question about the fit between the school and its students and it started a conversation that spread to the school’s leadership, faculty and board. Ultimately it resulted in our school recognizing that the school must fit the student, not the other way round. That is how we have developed our strong focus on personalized learning. This approach to learning, together with an emphasis on academic rigor and creativity, has come to characterize the distinctive nature of education at BCIS. If ever there was evidence that a school should listen to its students, then this was it.

So, you can see that as a class you are much admired. But now you face a challenge of a different order. It’s called life after school.

The problem with life, as the Danish philosopher Kierkegaard wrote, is that it must be lived forward, but can only be understood backwards. Or, in the words of E.M. Forster in his novel A Room with a View, “Life is a public performance on a violin, in which you must learn the instrument as you go along.” I’m afraid it is inevitable that you will play some wrong notes from time to time, and it may therefore be worth listening to a few words of advice, even from someone like me who has made more than his own fair share of mistakes. Here, then, are my three rules of life.

First, some advice about the most important thing you’ll ever do, which is to fall in love. Now when it comes to falling in love, never listen to a physicist. Beware especially when they talk about electromagnetic attraction. The laws of electromagnetism may be good for electromagnets, but they do not apply to us humans. In physics positive attracts negative, but in human relationships the opposite is true. As I’ve said, every one of you is extraordinarily positive. Please stay that way, and be careful. Negativity is potentially attractive because it is easy. To be negative you don’t actually have to do anything except find fault in others. The world has lots of negative people – look at any blog, newspaper column, or opinion poll. Be friends with those who have a positive, can-do outlook on life like you and choose your life partner from among them. Fall in love with someone who will enhance the possibilities of your life story and you theirs.

And still on the subject of love, it’s essential to fall in love with someone wiser than yourself. They do exist. Someone who is positive and who is wiser than yourself will keep you out of trouble, at least most of the time, and that’s worth knowing. Trust me, I am the world’s authority on this.

Paradoxically, my second rule of life is to make a nuisance of yourself, politely of course. Do not always do as you are told; do not always do what is expected. People who always do what is expected of them do not add to the sum of human ingenuity. Therefore do more than is expected of you. People who do as they are told acquiesce to the status quo. Do better than that. If the world were perfect I would advocate compliance with received mores and behaviors. But it is very far from perfect, and you have the education and the mindset to change things. I don’t mean make things slightly better for privileged people like those of us in the theater today. I mean improve things for those who don’t know what it means to go to school and graduate, for those who go hungry, for those who are the victims of insecurity and violence. It’s a big ask, but I am asking you, because more than any other class I have known it is within your power.

Finally, don’t grow up too fast, or, even better, don’t grow up at all. However sophisticated your future circumstances, hold on to the mind of a child. Here’s why, and it’s an example I experienced only last week. A three-year-old girl came with her parents to my home for supper. This little girl spent most of the evening sitting under the dining table rather than on her chair, which is what you would expect from a three-year old. But from time to time she would take my hand and lead me bravely down our long, dark hallway in search of animal footprints. We found evidence of elephants, bears and other exotic beasts that I had not known inhabited my apartment. To her my apartment was the Serengeti Plain or the Amazon Jungle and it was there to be explored. I was reminded of the intense curiosity and boundless imagination of young minds. Adults all too easily lose these key traits. Don’t let it happen to you. If you stay young in mind as well as in heart then every day will be an intellectual adventure. Just imagine.

It’s time for me to finish. You are young people with an enviable reputation and huge potential. You are about to go to some of the worlds’ finest universities and colleges. But remember that while a good education is the best possible start in life, it is no guarantee of future success. Life is complex, demanding, gloriously unpredictable, and as full of laughter and adventure as you choose to make it. You will play your life in public, learning your instrument as you go along. Therefore listen to others, choose your friends and partners with care, retain the sense of wonder of a young child, and always do more than is expected of you.

Class of 2013, like everyone here today I am immensely proud of you. You have achieved everything, no, more than everything, that your parents and teachers had hoped for, and you have made our school a better place for those that follow in your footsteps. Thank you. Congratulations on your graduation, and I wish you all a happy, fulfilling and successful life.

Thank you.

On Friday, June 15, 14 seniors from Tsinghua International School marked the end of an era and the beginning of a new chapter in their lives. As the second graduating class in THIS history, the students upheld a tradition that began only last year.                                                                                                                       

Around 200 parents, friends, and fellow students gathered in THIS’ auditorium, which was bedecked in red lanterns, Chinese infinity knots, and Tsinghua’s school colors of purple and white.

The graduates – who hailed from five countries (the US, China, Canada, Japan, and Indonesia) – wore black gowns and caps accessorized with purple stoles and tassels. They’ve been accepted to the following universities: New York University (NYU), University of Toronto, University of Southern California, Barnard College, Keio University, University of British Columbia, École Hôtelière de Lausanne, University of Waterloo, University of Miami, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA).

The ceremony was presided over by Masters of Ceremonies Tyler Shelden (THIS mathematics teacher), Toni Dong (assistant director of administration) and student MCs Jeffery Yu and Shannon Zhao (both juniors).

After some opening remarks from Executive Principal Shi Ping and High School Principal Wang Dianjun, THIS’ eighth grade students received certificates from Secondary Director Martha Ortiz. The students spontaneously started clapping during the Grade 8 montage video that followed.

This year’s keynote speaker was local personality Kaiser Kuo, director of international communications for Baidu. He is also a writer, rock musician, media commentator, and former columnist for beijingkids’ sister publication, the Beijinger. “A commencement speech is one of the hardest things a writer can write,” he noted.

“We go into college as children, and some of us come out as adults,” he said, reminiscing about his own university days. “College is where you first fall in love with ideas, fight about them, and challenge them.” Kuo recalled staying up late to have deep conversations with his college roommate (“what we called our ‘awe of the universe’ talks”), who remains one of his closest friends.

He stressed the advantages that THIS graduates would have, as bicultural and bilingual world citizens: “You will be in a unique position and be able to see things from both sides. Build bridges! Resist the urge to be offended by some people’s attitudes about China.”

After Kuo’s speech, a video montage of the seniors’ baby pictures, activities, and universities was shown. Then, elected student speaker Cameron Sun (Sun Jiahong) took the stage. Originally from China, Sun plans to attend Brown University in the fall. He’s undecided on his major, as students only have to pick in sophomore year. Scroll down to reach Sun’s speech in its entirety.

The speech was followed by the sealing of the “wish box,” in which each graduating student inserted their wishes for the future. The contents will be revisited at the Class of 2012’s 20-year high school reunion.

Then, THIS’ choir filed onstage to perform a jaunty song called “The Rhythm of Life” from the Broadway musical Sweet Charity. The catchy chorus goes:

Yes, the Rhythm of Life is a powerful beat,
To feel the Rhythm of Life,
To feel the powerful beat,
To feel the tingle in your fingers,
To feel the tingle in your feet

Right before the seniors received their diplomas, a rather unlikely father-daughter comedic duo took to the podium. THIS parent Li Gang offered his best wishes to the graduating class, with his daughter (and senior) Jennifer Li translating in English. As the audience roared to his deadpanned jokes, he ended with a personal entreaty to a teacher: “Get married and have kids soon! Your parents have been waiting for a while!”

Indeed, the rhythm of life is a powerful beat.

For more pictures from THIS’ graduation ceremony, check out our online gallery. All photos by The Bloom Family Photography

Student Speaker Cameron Sun’s Full Speech:

Thank you, Mr. Shelden and Ms. Dong.

Dear parents, faculty, students, and friends of the THIS Community.

It is a great honor to be speaking on behalf of the Tsinghua International School Class of 2012 today.

Two weeks ago, the seniors decided to put me up to a tough challenge: writing and delivering the graduation speech. At the same time, Principal Shi came up to me and said that if the audience doesn’t like my speech, the school’s not going to give me my diploma, I’m not going to graduate, and I will be a miserable person for the rest of my life. With that said, in the next five minutes or so, please take my speech seriously because I don’t want to stay in high school for another year.

Thank you.

OK. So I realized that this is one of my final moments at THIS as a student, therefore theoretically I could say anything I possibly want to because two hours from now, I will be out of this place, and none of you will ever find me again. However, I know Mr. Rathbun is videotaping this entire ceremony, as usual, so I’d better behave well so next year when people watch this video, they are going to say “Oh, that guy is smart, and Brown University made the right choice.”

I want to begin my speech with a salute for the unrivaled and invincible graduating class of 2012. Without any opposition, we are crowned the best senior class in the history of THIS. All three student council presidents this school has had so far are or were members of this class; we have the fastest cyclist; the most elegant dancer and singer; a computer engineer; an eighteen-time world champion in laughing; a budding photographer; a swim team captain; a healthy diet advocate; and the one and only Indian in this school.

Juniors, I know you all are very jealous right now. But suck it up!

I love THIS, and THIS has been so far one of my most unforgettable experiences. It has helped me to improve in many ways as a person as I leave my teenage years behind and become an adult.

The most amazing thing about THIS to me personally is its diversity and the many hidden talents of the students. For the first time in real life, I got to know two brilliant Indonesians; a Finnish person who can speak Chinese; a smiley and coffee-holic Greek; a 2m-tall giant from Lithuania; a man who speaks six languages; and many nice and funny dudes from Japan, Korea, and Hong Kong. We also have many talented dancers, singers, and musicians who constantly lure us to their performances and leave us mesmerized by their talents.

Thank you THIS, for giving me some of the best teachers I could ever have. I would not have ever achieved so much without my dedicated teachers, who are also my mentors.

Mr. Cheng: You have been in many ways more than merely a teacher to your students. I know this sounds like a nightmare, but Lily Zhu will come back to check on your dietary habits. By then, she will only be harsher because her degree in nutrition from NYU will qualify her to do so. So be prepared to become a vegetarian.

Ms. Xia: Your natural sense of humor has made the supposedly boring AP statistics class full of fun. Every joke you’ve made has helped Rainy to set a new laughing record. You are also always the person I can talk to when I have life issues. Thank you for always being there for me.

Ms. Bian: 在这个学校能遇到一个老乡实真的太不容易了，尤其是一个真正关心我生活和未来的人。谢谢您。

Mr. Pryor: You have been very helpful in helping us understand American history and culture. This class is much needed because most of us are heading to the States this fall. Thanks to you, now I wouldn’t freak out when people ask me who Abraham Lincoln is.

Dr. Daisy: C’est difficile à trouver un autre professeur qui est meilleur que vous. Votre cours de chimie est le meilleur cours de ma vie scolaire. Je penserai à vous!

Coach Webb: Thank you for waking up at 4 o’clock in the morning in the past year for the swim team. You are staying at THIS because it needs you. I’m going to visit in the future and by then if the swim team sucks, you will suffer.

Mr. K: Thank you for not failing me in Spanish, and I apologize for not saying this in Spanish. Hopefully one day I will be able to speak six languages as well. And I will always remember the advice you gave me yesterday while I was looking at my graduation photo in the hall way.

Mr. Hammond: You’ve helped all the seniors to get into great colleges! Thank you so much for what you have done so that we don’t have to stay in high school for another year.

And lastly, Ms. Li: Thank you for being our homeroom teacher for the past two years. I hope us seniors have made you a proud homeroom teacher, and we will come visit you in the near future.

Thank you again THIS, for the great friendships I’ve forged here. I know that in the future wherever I go I am going to feel just like home, because I have friends across the globe. I have to say goodbye to you all at this moment, but it’s only temporary. We will always just be an email, a phone call, or a plane ride away from each other.

Before I finish my speech today, I have but three suggestions for you people down there.

First of all, can we please get something other than cheese and Hawaiian pizza for parties in this school? I don’t think I’ve ever seen so many pizzas in my life before this school year started.

Second, y’all have to stop buying instant noodles for lunch! Seriously. It has been proven scientifically that eating instant noodles is the prime cause for worse class performance and worse grades.

Third, please respect your fellow classmates and teachers and take your trash with you, and stop sticking chewing gums onto desks and chairs.

The THIS Class of 2013, I apologize for mocking you earlier in this speech, but the truth is, you are the more diverse and versatile class. I have so much faith and confidence that you guys will excel in your senior year and rock everybody’s world. Please carry on our legacy and make the THIS Community proud.

Congratulations again to the middle school graduating class and the Tsinghua International School Class of 2012. We made it!