From the airport, travel 2 hours to Moganshan and settle into the countryside guesthouse. Enjoy a local meal, welcome circle, and opening ceremony.
Culture, Technology, and Community Sustainability
If you want to understand the world we live in, there’s no way to ignore China. In the words of Lao Tzu, “a path traveled is no longer the same path, a road traveled is no longer the same road.” Old neighborhoods of wooden houses are demolished to make way for 80-story buildings. Streets once filled with bicycles are now jammed with shiny new cars. Buddhist monks read ancient sutras from iPads, and millions of rural farmers move between home and work in the city to support their families. New highways, rail lines, and airports are under construction virtually all the time, everywhere, in a race to keep up with 1.4 billion people on the move.
This program is a holistic cultural immersion. During the course, students should expect to be deeply engaged with the people and places that surround them. Open and curious interaction with a carefully guided host of activities will provide students with opportunities for cultivating personal leadership, a deepened sense of self, and a more developed understanding of their own place in a global community.
