Taiwanese Students Arrive
Fourteen high school students from St. Ignatius High School in Taipei, Taiwan arrived in Miami on January 24, as part of the third annual exchange program between Belen Jesuit and St. Ignatius.
The students were greeted by administration, faculty, students that will be shadowed and the students and families of those who will be hosts. Click here to view pictures from the arrival ceremony.
During their seventeen day stay, they will attend classes at Belen shadowing a junior or senior, and will be hosted by fourteen volunteer families from the Belen community. “We welcome our young guests and celebrate Belen Jesuit’s commitment to offer our students the best education possible in a global world,” said Mr. Roca.
This is our third year taking part in a Foreign Exchange Program with our Jesuit brother school, St. Ignatius. “Over the years we’ve had nine students take part in this incredible program made possible with the help of Phillip Wang, the Director General of the Taipei Economic and Cultural office of Miami,” said Charles Cleveland, Asia Overseas Study Program Moderator. “The Foreign Exchange Program has been designed to give both schools the opportunity for students y to travel and experience each other’s culture at little cost.”
St. Ignatius School was founded by Jesuit missionaries in Shanghai in 1850 and relocated to Taipei in 1963 after the communist takeover in China.
For more information on how to get involved in the Foreign Exchange Program to Taiwan please contact Mr. Charles Cleveland as soon as possible at ccleveland@belenjesuit.org or Mrs. Chiu, our Taiwan Mandarin teacher at hchiu@belenjesuit.org.
BELEN JESUIT PREPARATORY SCHOOL
500 SW 127th Avenue, Miami, FL 33184
phone: 305.223.8600 | fax: 305.227.2565 | email: webmaster@belenjesuit.org
500 SW 127th Avenue, Miami, FL 33184
phone: 305.223.8600 | fax: 305.227.2565 | email: webmaster@belenjesuit.org
Belen Jesuit Preparatory School was founded in 1854 in Havana, Cuba by Queen Isabel II of Spain. The task of educating students was assigned to the priests and brothers of the Society of Jesus (the Jesuits), whose teaching tradition is synonymous with academic excellence and spiritual discipline. In 1961, the new political regime of Cuba confiscated the School property and expelled the Jesuit faculty. The School was re-established in Miami the same year, and over the next decade, continued to grow. Today, Belen Jesuit sits on a 30-acre site in western Dade County, only minutes away from downtown Miami.