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This journal, I want to introduce the institution of my intern. It is an educational institution in my hometown. It focuses on the art education of local senior citizens. It includes classes of dancing, calligraphy, photography, sketch, painting, traditional Chinese painting, crafts making and others. It aims to make an interesting retired living for local citizens. These classes are not free to public, but just with few fees which are for some materials. It opens to public, but limits within the special background of the student. It isn’t need students have the background of the class, but the special background of their working institution. There is a list, only institutions and companies on the list, their retired employees can study in this “college”. Usually these institutions and companies are belonging to the government. However, the biggest sponsor of this institution is local government and the purpose is trying to involving more local senior citizens. So it is trying to attract more senior people to join classes. The institution has its own gallery that is displaying some Chinese traditional art works. Every year, it has an exhibition for all students. We choose some works and display them to the public. There is an important exhibition every year, which is a corporate exhibition with a similar institution of Korean.  I should give you some information, you know, there are so many similarities between traditional Chinese art and Korean art; and my hometown is near South Korean and North Korea, we always have some communications and exchanges with these two countries. This exhibition is the important experience of my internship and I will introduce it later. I just want to say that, the institution has really high level art education in my city, especially in the aspect of traditional Chinese art work. For traditional Chinese art, the worth of artwork is always equal to the age of artist. Some of these students are famous artist in China; they just want to find a flexible environment to communicate. I really like this opportunity to work here; it has its special position in the city.