In the second global competition run by Shanghai Library, Institute student, Elspeth Hough has been awarded a third prize.
Shanghai Library have donated a number of English and dual language books to our Institute under an initiative known as `Window of Shanghai`. The writing competition required entrants to submit either a piece of writing in English or Chinese which focused on personal experiences or gave a book review, or an essay stimulated by the book selected.
From all the entrants around the world a total of 20 have been selected as winners. We are delighted to offer many congratulations to Esther who has been a language student at the Institute for just over one year.
Though missing out on the top prizes which saw first and second placed winners invited to an award ceremony in Shanghai with airline and accommodation costs covered, Elspeth was delighted to receive a certificate and a package of books about Shanghai for her essay which talked of her experience in learning Chinese.
Elspeth said `I used to love writing and when I saw the poster for the competition in the Institute I thought this would be a good stimulus to get startedagain and to reflect on my experience of learning Chinese at the Confucius Institute. I was delighted to receive my prize – an unexpected package of books from the Shanghai Library. I haven`t yet been to China but am keen to go and Shanghai will definitely be on the list of my places to visit`.