Meet These Two Outstanding WAB WOW Interns

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The Jingkids team is excited to welcome back this year's Western Academy of Beijing interns for their World of Work (WOW) Week internship. Let's meet some of this year's interns. 

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Introducing Kristina
Jingkids’ Newest Intern

Kristina K is a 16-year-old high school student who attends the Western Academy of Beijing. Born in Croatia, she has lived in a great number of countries including Japan (though she doesn’t remember much from this early period in her life, as she moved away from Japan at the age of three), Hungary (where she traumatically got stung by a bee), Sweden, and now China. Her lifestyle has strengthened her relationship with her home country, Croatia, and pushed her to become an open-minded and international person.

She’s passionate about film, social studies, social justice, and music.

Growing up, Kristina’s family was heavily invested in watching movies. Ritualistic Friday movie nights helped her develop a deep appreciation for the art of filmmaking. The personal project is a year-long self-directed school project that’s submitted and reviewed by the International Baccalaureate system.

For her Personal Project, Kristina created two short films and wrote four scripts. The collaborative student film that she wrote the script for ‘The Girl and the Plant’ was nominated for Best Picture at the Identity Film Festival. Furthermore, she joined an intensive four week film class hosted by the NY Film Academy during the summer which she describes as challenging, but enjoyable. She’s fiercely dedicated to her craft and entertains the possibility of entering the film industry in the future.

In her free time, Kristina listens to country, rock, folk, and pop music. She also enjoys good instrumental music, and music that she can play (on her guitar) or sing to. She revealed that she selects music based on her mood, rather than the genre. Recently, she founded a student band called Rooftop Odyssey which played at Rock in the Park, and at a private graduation celebration for grade 10 students from WAB.

Kristina is diligent, multi-talented and well-informed. She hopes to work on her journalistic skills and work ethic during her internship here.

Introducing Jingkids’ 

Newest Intern

Sarah B

Some new interns came from the Western Academy of Beijing (WAB) to jingkids! Today, I will introduce one of the new interns, Sarah B. She is in Grade 10 and is currently taking a MYP curriculum. She first came to China following her father, who worked for WAB where in China. Five years later, she still lives in Beijing.

Before she came to China, she thought the Chinese would have great antipathy toward foreigners, but after she came to China, she realized that the Chinese were very kind and polite.

Life in Beijing changed her life in many ways. The biggest change happened at her school. When she was in her native Canada, she attended public schools. While attending a public school, she prayed every morning and had no chance to meet an Asian student. However, after coming to China, she attends an international school and has been able to meet various students from various countries. In China, she has also been able to develop a new hobby of sewing clothes. Beijing has more access to fashion than Canada, which has made her more interested in clothes. It has also increased access to sewing by providing abundant opportunities and tools for sewing in schools.

Sarah says her future dream is to become a special education teacher, influenced by her father. She watched her dad help others sincerely as a teacher and thinks she wants to help many people, just like her dad. She says she will return to Canada to attend university after graduating from high school at WAB, to achieve her dream.

Images: Kristina K, Images: Sarah B

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