【推荐1】CHI’s Academic Year Program(AYP)is your chance to study in America and spend either an academic year or a semester living with a volunteer host family.

The requirements for studying in America:

● High school students who are aged 15 to 18

● A score of at least 212 on the ELTIS exam

●Application

Contact a partner agency in your home or a nearby country. We can also send you a list of partners near you. They will set you up with an application and let you know what you need to submit in order to be considered.

● Admission and visa

Our Admissions Department reviews and accepts your application. We issue and send your agency the Form as-2019, which is the official US Department of State document that allows you to apply for and receive your J-1 visa. Once you receive the DS-2019, you can make your visa appointment. When the visa is granted, you are all set to travel to America.

●Home stay zksq

Meanwhile, our Field and Operations staff work hard to find you the perfect family and school as soon as possible! Once we find the right host family for you, you can start to get to know your family by email.

● Depart to the US and meet your family and friends

Your agency will book your flight according to your school start date. When you arrive, we will give you a student orientation(迎新会)and introduce you to other exchange students and the surrounding community. When school starts, you will begin the process of cultural exchange!

Contact us: 1-800-432-4643; 1-415-459-5397

Location: 255 W End Avenue San Rafael, CA 94901

【推荐3】Ideally situated db San Antonio Hotel + Spa is only 150 meters away from the beautiful Qawra Promenade. This newly redecorated hotel offers an extensive range of modern facilities(设施), entertainment and animation programs and enjoys its own concession (特许经营权) on the nearby beach. It’s an ideal choice for those seeking to relax and enjoy the best of what Malta has to offer.

Accommodation

db San Antonio Hotel + Spa offers big, modern rooms all with a balcony. Interconnecting rooms and disabled access rooms are available upon request. All the guest rooms are well equipped with heating and air conditioning, a private bathroom with a hair dryer, a telephone, a satellite TV, a mini-fridge, tea and coffee making facilities, free Wi-Fi, and a ceiling fan.

Facilities

2 pools — an indoor pool (with a baby pool) and an outdoor pool

A health club including the fully-equipped gym, aerobic studio, steam bath, saunas and Jacuzzi

Private underground parking

Shops, restaurants and bars (the mini bar only opens on request)

Meals & Drinks

Three meals a day, with lunch/dinner including house wine/beer, soft drinks, mineral water

Tea, coffee, soft drinks, local fruit juices, water, house beer/spirits, cocktails

Attention： Now a FREE room upgrade is provided； an upgrade is valid on inland and pool view rooms. A free upgrade to the next room category is subject to availability and can be withdrawn at any time. The offer is valid on new bookings made between 22 June and 1 July with travel dates within 1 July to 31 October (staying for a minimum of 5 nights).

【推荐2】Jules is now in his sixties, and is one of the many homeless people who live on the streets; he buys a newspaper most days. Today, with his fellow tramps, he reads about yesterday's student demonstrations.

Like many of the tramps who live under the bridges, Jules was not always so poor. A long time ago he was in the Navy, and like many who have been to sea for a long time, he has stayed slim and fit. Despite the strict organization on board ship, he loved his life, and had the opportunity to see many countries. He visited Poland and Russia; in South Africa he realized what he valued in each country was the people he met. He was always astonished and delighted by the ways in which the people he met differed from one country to another. Some day, he hopes, everyone will see the world as he does.

After many happy years in the Navy, he had to retire. The good things in life always come to an end. His mother and father had long since died and he’d lost touch with his other relatives. He became an industrial designer. He was happy, although it wasn’t the same as the sea. He never wanted to get married and have children.

And then there was the period of darkness. He smiles sadly. He shrugs his shoulders and looks at his hands. There are tears in the corners of his eyes. This is something that he cannot bring himself to talk about. ''It all went wrong, '' he whispers.

He was silent for a while, then recovered. He began to talk more loudly. ''Look at me now---it makes me angry. And what about the President? He's been in power for years, and look what he's done for us. Nothing! I am still out on the streets and live the life of a dog.''

【推荐3】How to Start a Career(职业)

Starting a career is about making choices as to what you want out of life well into the future. You could be switching careers, starting fresh, or just looking to see what is out there.     1    

Dive online into research about careers you're interested in.

On the one hand, if you're unsure about which career you want, make a list of 5-10 jobs you might like and then start searching them.     2     You may realize, for example, that becoming an actor has a high burden to entry, with low job security and uncertain hours. But being a production assistant, working on film sets, is a much more manageable start and can lead to a variety of film careers.

Take an honest look at your current qualifications (资格).

Generally speaking, the career you want is going to need some training and experience.     3     What you should do next is make enough preparations for the career you love.

Do some volunteer work in fields you enjoy.

This can be especially useful if you're not sure, or if you have several choices and you can't make up your mind between them.     4     But it is useful for a short period to give you a good taste of what the career is like.

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It is a good idea to discuss careers with others. It can help you judge if people are enjoying what they're doing every day. It also lets you ask questions to put yourself in their shoes, determining if you see yourself in that job. This can really help you to decide what will work for you.

【推荐2】While traveling to a foreign land, or perhaps across the state, aren't you looking for something a little more adventurous, more luxurious (豪华) , and packed with facilities that you don't have at home?

Treehotel, Sweden

It was perhaps everybody's childhood dream to be able to have their own tree house. Now you can sleep in a specifically made hotel suite built atop a tree in the Harads Municipality in Sweden. The most unique rooms are the Bird's Nest, a room exactly shaped like a bird nest; the Mirror Cube, a hide-out with reflective outside walls. The rate of each room starts from about $800 per night.

The Manta Resort, Tanzania

The Manta Resort in Tanzania is one of the world's only hotels with rooms placed below the surface of the ocean. By opening the curtains of your windows, you'll be able to see hundreds of fish swimming peacefully around your room. Want to go for a swim? Climb out of your room and jump in the clear waters! For only $250 a night, you, too, can sleep with the fishes.

Book and Bed, Japan

Reading before sleeping is something that many people do. Book and Bed, a 30-room hotel in the heart of Tokyo takes advantage of this by conveniently placing a lot of books in shelves just an arm's reach away from your bed. The rooms at this hotel are small enough for a single adult. Reading yourself to sleep in one of their comfortable rooms will cost only about $40 a night.

Tianzi Hotel, China

The largest image hotel in the world is the Tianzi Hotel in Hebei Province, China. The hotel is a description of the three ancient Chinese gods of Fu, Lu, and Shou- the god of fortune, prosperity, and longevity, respectively. To enter it, simply open the door located in Shou's foot. The peach resting in the God of Longevity's left hand is a one-bedroom suite with a perfect view of the busy city. Rates at the Tianzi Hotel start as cheap as $11 a night.

【推荐1】Colorado' s grays peak(山顶)rises 14,278 feet above sea level, high enough that trees can't grow toward the top, though there are plenty of bushes and rocks. It was in this unforgiving area that Bev Wedelstedt was unlucky enough to have her left knee broken.

It was August 2018, and Wedelstedt, 56, was on her way back down the path with three friends. A storm was coming, and they were anxious to get off the mountain. When they approached a rocky drop of a couple of feet, Wedelstedt decided to jump over it. She landed on her left leg. Then she heard the snap (咔嚓声).

Every step after that was great pain. Before long, she had to stop. As one friend ran down to get help, a number of other hikers, all strangers, attempted to help Wedelstedt down the narrow path by walking on either side of her to support her weight, but that proved slow and dangerous.

Finally, one hiker, Matt, asked her, “How do you feel about a fireman's carry?” Before she knew it, he had lifted her over his shoulder. “Now, I' m not tiny,” says Wedelstedt, a former college basketball star. Matt clearly couldn't carry her all the way down by himself. So six hikers and one of her friends took turns carrying her while she tried to make light of a difficult situation. Three hours and two rock –strewn (遍布) miles later, this human conveyor belt finally met the doctors, who took Wedelstedt to the hospital.

She has mostly recovered from her hike, but Wedelstedt knows she'll I never shake one thing from that day: the memory of the band of strangers who came to her rescue. “I'm still in awe.” says Wedelstedt.

【推荐2】It was my first time skydiving. I did pretty well, but my landing was a problem. My jump-master had been talking to me for most of the way down after I pulled the ripcord(拉伞索) (there was a radio on my head). Then, at about 750 feet from the ground he stopped talking. I was very excited. I landed across the runway, across the street, over some trees, and in somebody’s backyard, nowhere near the drop zone. It was cool.

My second jump, about three weeks later, was a little more difficult. I jumped out at 14,000 feet rather than 10,000 feet this time. When I jumped, I managed to make only two ninety-degree turns, even though I had 60 seconds of free fall. The average jumper can turn six or seven times with that much time. Anyway, when I pulled my ripcord, something strange happened. I was conscious, because I did some important things to keep myself safe, but I don’t remember anything. Later my jump-master said that something happened to me for about 45 seconds. When I did wake up, the wind had blown me far away from the drop zone. I couldn’t even find it from 2000 feet in the air. My jump-master was shouting into the radio to give him a sign that I heard him. He told me that I went over a hill and that he wouldn’t see me after that so I had to find an open area to land in. I landed in a field of cows. Then I had to walk down a long driveway.

【推荐3】One night in 1966, Michael Chapman rushed into a folk-music club in Cornwall, England to get out of the rain, and soon found himself onstage playing the guitar.

“They offered me a job to play for the rest of the summer. And I’ve been playing ever since,” Chapman says. “I’ve told that story so many times, but it’s absolutely true. If it hadn’t been raining that night, I wouldn’t be talking to you.”

The British guitar player has spent the 50 years since then on the road. He released some praised albums in the 1970s, but his health went downhill in the 80s and 90s. Like a lot of British artists in the 1960s, Chapman taught himself to play the guitar by listening to American jazz and blues records.

Chapman actually taught photography, but quit when he was 26 to play music full time. When he was starting out, he was often compared to other British acoustic guitar heroes of the time, like John Martyn and Bert Jansch.

“The fascinating thing about Michael Chapman is that he doesn’t fit in with those guys of his generation,” says Andrew Male, a music journalist. “He’s always been an outsider. He never moved to London. ”

And while he never became part of the London music scene, Chapman was noticed by those musicians. “The 70s caught up with him in the 80s,” Male says. “He had a huge heart attack at the end of the 80s that nearly finished him off. When he made his way back into the world in the early 90s, people had forgotten about him.” But not everyone. A younger generation of musicians in America, including Thurston Moore of Sonic Youth and a younger singer and guitarist named Steve Gunn, recently rediscovered Chapman.

“We wanted to capture Michael’s voice and character where he is now. You know, it’s a little road-weary, but he still has it,” Gunn says. “For me, it was really important to get that right.” “He’s the right old musician for present times,” Male says. “I think the music he makes seems quite in tune with where we’re at.”