Summer at SILK Road

On Saturday 5th July Iโ€™ll be boarding a plane bound for Hong Kong once again this year, as I journey east for the SILK Road International Summer School. The programme, organised by the Hong Kong Polytechnic Universityโ€™s Faculty of Humanities, will put me and four other Lancaster University Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences students through our paces as we complete two full credit-bearing university modules in the space of three weeks.

Weโ€™ll be spending the first week at Hong Kong PolyUโ€™s campus before travelling to mainland China for two weeks at Jiaotong University in Xiโ€™an, home of the famous Terracotta Army. There we will learn about Chinese culture, religion, geography and, of course, language. During our time outside the lecture halls weโ€™ll be taken on a series of trips to visit places of interest in both Hong Kong and Xiโ€™an.

The initials SILK stand for Study in an Intercultural Environment and Learn to be Kreative, so I will be back in a few weeks with an update on just how ‘kreative’ I have become!