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New York · partnership since 2022

CCC Chinese School comes to Changhua

Since 2022 their students have tutored Taiwan's children in English. In 2024 and again in 2025 they crossed the Pacific to learn, teach, and share culture in person.

A bridge from New York to Changhua

One partnership, two shores of the Pacific

Since 2022, My Culture Connect has partnered with CCC Chinese School in Albany, the capital of New York State. Their students tutor Taiwan's elementary children in English online — turning a 12-hour time difference into real cultural exchange and language practice.

In July 2024, fourteen CCC students came to Taiwan for meaningful volunteer work. In 2025 they returned to Changhua — visiting elementary and vocational schools, making tofu, trying calligraphy, dragon dance and Chinese music, and co-teaching alongside local students.

CCC Chinese School students with Changhua children

July 2025 · most recent

Back in the classroom

Co-teaching at Zhonghe Elementary and Chongshi Vocational High School — plus taekwondo, market visits and games across Changhua.

Welcome meet-up · Chongshi Vocational HS (Jul 9, 2025)
Chongshi Vocational HS — Day 1 (Jul 9, 2025)
Taekwondo · Chongshi Vocational HS (Jul 9, 2025)
Zhonghe Elementary — Day 2 (Jul 9, 2025)
Reflections · Chongshi Vocational HS (Jul 9, 2025)
Chongshi Vocational HS — Day 2 (Jul 10, 2025)
Game challenges · Chongshi Vocational HS (Jul 10, 2025)
Yuanlin produce market · with Chongshi HS (Jul 10, 2025)
Zhonghe Elementary — Day 3 (Jul 10, 2025)
Zhonghe Elementary — Day 4 (Jul 11, 2025)

July 2025 · field trips & vocabulary

Tofu, music, and bilingual words

Hands-on highlights and short Word-of-the-Day clips of what the students met — from the erhu to the high-speed rail.

Making tofu at Tianye Qinxue farm
Visiting Xiling Elementary School
Word of the Day: calligraphy
Word of the Day: erhu
Word of the Day: plucked string instrument
Word of the Day: unicycle
Word of the Day: high-speed-rail station
Word of the Day: icebreaker game
Word of the Day: pineapple
Word of the Day: making kites
Word of the Day: flying kites

July 2024 · where it began

Fourteen students cross the Pacific

The CCC students' first volunteer trip across Changhua — a news report and highlights of their journey.

News report: the CCC Chinese School Taiwan trip
The CCC Chinese School journey to Taiwan
CCC Chinese School in Changhua
Changhua, Day 2 — Teaching
Changhua, Day 2 — Calligraphy & dragon dance
Chinese-music exchange at Sijhou Junior High