" Thank you for coming to our school, I like your dancing, I want to go to china." " You are so cool, please come again." Recently, a Chinese volunteer teacher Yang Yuan who works for the Confucius Institute in University of Pittsburgh received a hundred thank-you letters from American elementary school teachers and students.

As a CI teacher sent by Wuhan University, during the period in Valley School of Ligonier in Pennsylvania, Yang Yuan made many attempts and efforts to improve the quality of teaching.After investigating the surrounding area, she found there are seldom schools offering Chinese courses. In order to give an opportunity to the students to experience Chinese language and culture, Yuan contacted with those schools, and gave an Chinese culture show to them. In addition to Mongolia dance performance and Tai Chi, she also designed a series of cultural experience activities.

All the teachers and students are very excited about the activities . The leaderships of these schools also highly praised the cultural activities, and showed a great interest to the Chinese program of Confucius Institute.

" You let us know so much about China." " The next year, you will be a good teacher." Out of Yuan��s expectation, she received more than 100 thank-you letters. She can feel the sincere emotion from the teachers and students when she opened the letters and cards.

As a leader of promoting Chinese language and culture in the area of Pennsylvania, Confucius Institute in University of Pittsburgh does not only emphasis on developing and prompting Chinese language teaching, but also value that of the Chinese culture. Since its establishment, it sent dozens of Chinese volunteer teachers. Cooperating with schools and communities,CI-Pitt have organized Chinese culture seminar, Chinese movie show, Chinese traditional opera performance and some other publicity for more than a hundred times. These colorful cultural activities organized by CI-Pitt had won great attention in the area of Pennsylvania.