Dengfeng opens arms to kung fu students from US

Dengfeng, a small and quiet city in Henan province that is home to the Shaolin Temple, has been busy with the arrival of high school students from the United States who want to learn kung fu.

As part of the Chinese Bridge Summer Camp for US High School Students, which has been held annually since 2007 by Hanban, or the Confucius Institute Headquarters, the kung fu-learning section lasted from July 20 to 23 and was attended by 107 US high school students.

Alex Frol, an 18-year-old from Oregon, was one of them. The recent high school graduate was born without her right leg and has been walking with the help of an artificial limb.