Chinese Club
Mandarin and Chinese culture at Mang'u, from Thursday club sessions to a language exchange camp in Tianjin, China.
To China: our exchange camp in Tianjin
Members of our Chinese Club travelled to China for a Chinese-language exchange camp at Tianjin Normal University (TNU). The camp was organised for our boys: the screen at the opening ceremony read, in Chinese, “Kenya Mang'u High School Students' Chinese Exchange Camp”.
Time at the university ended with certificates at a closing ceremony. In between, the boys saw the places they had read about: the Great Wall, the Temple of Heaven and the Summer Palace in Beijing, and the river and streets of Tianjin.
TNU, founded in 1958, is one of China's teacher-training universities, and it already works with the University of Nairobi to train Kenyan teachers of Mandarin.
The China trip
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Learning Chinese at Mang'u
The Chinese Club brings together boys who want to speak Mandarin and understand China: its language, its history and how it lives today. The club meets every Thursday afternoon in our Chinese room, with Mr Francis Njuguna as patron.
More clubs at Mang'u
Fifty clubs meet every Thursday afternoon, from robotics to Model UN.