I have studied Chinese up to GCSE (O Level) and achieved an A, but have forgotten a good deal of it and want to learn it again. It is a very beautiful and useful language; I am only 18 years old, but I am taking a gap year before I go to university in order to travel alone to Shanghai so that I can reconnect with the Chinese language and culture. My mother is half-Chinese, and thus I was raised with Chinese cultural influences but I would like to be as fluent as possible in the language itself. SISU looks like a welcoming, warm, high-quality learning environment, and it would be a dream to study there.