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Junior shares study abroad experience in China
By Lynnsey Kraus ’07
CONTRIBUTING WRITER

Ni hao Sweet Briar! I hope the spring semester is treating everyone well. For the past six months Beijing, China has been my home, though if you had told me I would be able to have full conversations in Chinese a year ago I would have thought you were crazy.

Learning Mandarin, living in a home stay and traveling throughout China has been the most amazing and fulfilling experience I’ve ever known. My home stay family is welcoming and incredibly generous and understanding, especially when it might take them 30 minutes and a quick game of charades to explain to me something Chinese.

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Faculty farewells
By Emily Clifton ’08
STAFF WRITER

In the upcoming academic year, a few familiar faces will be missing from Sweet Briar College. A number of faculty members are retiring this year, while others are taking sabbaticals or moving on to other places to share their experiences.

While not all of the professors could be reached for comment, many would like to share their plans and give a few last words to the students here at Sweet Briar before they leave. Rest assured, Sweet Briar students, you will be missed, and of those leaving may return to teach or perhaps just to visit in the near future.
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