Christmas in Vancouver at CSLI:
This month was a very exciting month at CSLI.  December brought many touching moments this year: Putting up the annual Christmas tree kicked off this month as many countries participated in decorating it - many students mentioned they had never put up a tree before.  We remember the less fortunate at Christmas and had a food drive - we donated 2 large boxes of food to the Vancouver Food Bank.  The popular Friday activities this month were: ice skating, hiking in the snow at Lynn Canyon, riding the Christmas train in Stanley park and of course our big Christmas party and traditional turkey feast at the Directors house.

Student Christmas Party at Directors' Home:
All students were invited by Santa to the CSLI Directors' home and nearly 100 students attended a free turkey lunch and celebrations.  Santa visited and gave some lucky, good students their dream wishes.  They included:  a new bike, a camera, 2 month scholarships, a month pass at a gym, English tapes, books, gourmet coffee vouchers, videos, ballet lessons, a wallet, ski lesson and rental, a trip to Victoria, $50 telephone cards, Canucks hockey tickets and a jersey and much more. Special thanks to North Vancouver Recreation Centre and Big Joe's Coffee Bar for their donation. All students prepared a Christmas song to sing and the photos were-a-flashing!  The party continued with the best student of each class getting a special reserve of wine bottled by CSLI.

Free Friday Activities Continue Next Year:
Next month as we prepare for our big move, some of the Free Friday activities will be: tarot card reading,  a trip to Bowen Island, hairstyling, wine tasting class, Karaoke night, guitar lessons, sushi lunch, pronunciation, grammar and idiom classes for the hard workers and much more. Our big graduation celebration next month will  be a pot-luck lunch at a log cabin at the top of Mount Seymour, including many games in the snow! 
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December was Pronunciation Month at CSLI:
December was pronunciation month and all the students worked very hard at their pronunciation for our big contest. Special congratulations to José Antonio Bonequi Moreno & Joong-Yong (Jason) Lee for being crowned the "Pronunciation Kings of CSLI"!   Jun Sun "Jason" Chung (also known as Mr. Chung) of Korea was our final recipient in 2000 to win a free scholarship and a flight back to our 10 year party in 2002.  Congratulations Jason on working so hard and participating in all of your classes and CSLI events this month. 
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Ambassador of the Year for 2000:
Special praise goes to an incredibly hard working and pupular student of ours.  Deniz Altay of Turkey was our recipient of the Ambassador of the Year.  Apart from being a dedicted student, Deniz has has also benn an excellent ambassador for his country and has also been responsibel for helping other Turkish students become comfortable with living and studying in Canada.  We are proud that his father has the opportunity to join our special presentation of his award at our pre-New Year's Eve graduation party.

 

Lawrence & Lori-Ann Keenan
Directors & Owners
CSLI, Vancouver

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