几个月前，我有幸与我过去的一位学生张兰兰共进午餐。我对兰兰在苏州北美学校（SNA）的时光依然记忆犹新。她总是对同学和老师非常友好，并且从不犹豫帮助需要帮助的朋友。我还对她的舞蹈才华印象深刻，她通过在舞蹈工作室提供夜间或周末课程赚取月收入。

A few months ago, I had the pleasure to lunch with one of my past students, Lanlan Crystal Zhang. I still have very fond memories of Lanlan’s time at SNA. She was always very friendly towards her classmates and teachers and would never hesitate to help a friend in need. I was also very impressed with her dancing abilities, earning herself a monthly income by giving evening or weekend lessons in dance studios.

　　兰兰于2019年毕业于SNA，随后进入位于雅典的乔治亚大学（UGA），并报名参加了“双狗”项目，该项目要求她在五年或更短时间内完成广告学学士和综合广告与公共关系硕士学位。由于新冠疫情，兰兰在第一学期结束后回到中国，并在苏州工业园区的利物浦大学继续她的课程。2020年至2021年期间，她还协助SNA经济学系开发了目前AP宏观经济学/微观经济学学生使用的教材。

Lanlan graduated from SNA in 2019 and went to the University of Geogia in Athens (UGA) where she enrolled in the Double Dawgs program, which required her to complete her Bachelor’s in Advertising and Master’s in Integrated Advertising and Public Relation in five years or less. Due to the covid pandemic, Lanlan returned to China after her first semester and continued her studies in China taking courses at Liverpool University in the Suzhou Industrial Park. While in China from 2020 to 2021, Lanlan also helped SNA’s Economics Department develop the current textbooks used by its AP Macroeconomic/ Microeconomics students.

　　2021年秋天，兰兰回到UGA，并在四年内完成了她的学士和硕士学位，而不是要求的五年。除了在学业上出色表现外，兰兰还为“TheAgency”做模特，每年参与七到八场时装秀，展示UGA学生设计的服装。

Lanlan returned to UGA in the fall of 2021 and managed to complete her Bachelor’s and Master’s in four years instead of the required five. On top of excelling in her studies, Lanlan also modeled for The Agency, participating in seven-eight fashion shows per year where she paraded in clothing designed by UGA students.

　　2023年12月从“双狗”项目毕业后，兰兰决定继续在UGA深造，并将在今年9月开始攻读新闻与大众传播学的博士学位。她的努力为她赢得了UGA提供的每年13,700美元的助学金。在等待今年秋天开始博士学位期间，兰兰在新加坡度过了冬季，并在新加坡国立大学修读了研究生课程。SNA的前任老师们祝愿她好运，我个人认为她未来会成为一家媒体公司的总裁。

After graduating from the Double Dawgs program in December of 2023, Lanlan decided to continue her studies at UGA and will start a PHD in Journalist and Mass Communication this September. Her hard work earned her an assistantship from UGA worth $13,700 annually. While waiting to begin her PHD this fall, Lanlan spent the winter in Singapore and took graduate courses at the prestigious National University of Singapore. Her former teachers at SNA wish her the best of luck and I personally see her as president of her own media company sometime in the future.