I first learned French with my french mentor Elsa. We learned by making connections in my mind with objects and French words, we also had a method where Elsa would say a short story we made up and I would act it out. Later, I went to the French Alliance class to learn. after that, […]
At first, I got a checklist to help me know what to do. I would grab a piece of paper and write my plans on there – after I finished a plan I would check the box. But after I finished my checklist for the day, I didn’t know what to do again. […]
My name is Felix. I am a Chinese 9-year-old. Brendan is my American friend and mentor. He is 25 years old and graduated from Yale. I have always planned to go to the USA, and at the time, Brendan was planning to go to the USA to visit his friends and his mom, so we […]
I was always interested in History, especially World History. It is always fascinating to me how we innovated and advanced, especially when I compare two different country’s history, I can really get a feel of the world at different times in different places. But I didn’t have time to learn a lot of history at […]
The Germ Play is a Play written by Ryan Emily and I. As you can tell from the title this play involves Germs, it’s about two germs Gerky and Germy (me!) taking over a human body! They came into the human from a huge cut in his foot, they traveled to the cell bar (a […]
Process This whole book started as a group drawing, which is a drawing that a group makes. This group includes me, Brendan, and Emily, 3 learners at the Base. In a group drawing, you take turns drawing, and each person has 20 seconds. After 20 seconds, you need to stop what you’re drawing and pass […]
The knowledge wall is a wall that can give people a clear view of what subjects there are and what categories they belong to. The wall has many shelves that we used paper to make, and on the shelves, there are many “ingredient”, which show the names of each subject and little drawings on top. […]
I started learning German when I was 5 and when I came to the base I learned German with Lisa, we used SLA – Second Language Acquisition. Normally people in China learn English by memorizing but I learn it by making the words and sentences have relations with things and actions, this is how baby […]
When I was 8 my Aunt is going to have a wedding. I had been practicing piano for some time so I decided to write a song for the wedding. I was going to Germany at the time so I started to write the song in Germany. And after I came back Carlo (my music […]