["Alec","Grigorian","u90edu827eu514b","u7528u529f Chinese AP student","Boston, MA","Education","United States","It's difficult to capture this awesomeness in 100 words. I first went to China freshman year. I worked at the Little Flower Orphanage in Beijing for three weeks. The next year I applied for and got a scholarship to study Chinese at Nanjing University for six weeks, last summer. I've been studying Chinese for 5 years now and can happily say I don't make a total fool of myself when I start speaking Mandarin. "]