Record Highs
March was CSLI’s busiest month ever, with a record number of students from over 20 countries. With the warm Spring weather and so many students here for a short period of time, we made it part of our curriculum for all classes to go on outings. Charlie’s Chocolate Factory and the BC Sports Hall of Fame were among the popular tours that allowed students to meet Canadians while learning about local businesses (and tasting some delicious chocolate).

April promises to be another warm month, and out-of-class activities will continue to play an important role in the students’ education.

CSLI Continues Charity Work
CSLI's involvement in helping Sri Lanka raise money after the tsunami continues with an exciting project. We are helping distribute and sell Friendship Bracelets that were made by Sri Lankans to help raise money, 100% of which will go directly to the people of that country. Vancouver's school boards have taken CSLI's lead and will be selling them in their schools. CSLI students have been helping package, sell, and buy these bracelets in an effort to bring revenue to those in need.

War on Words
This months contest was our Spelling Bee, one of our most popular contests. The final 3 contestants were Johannes Muller, Aida Oji, and Chino Inokuma, with the winner being Aida from Germany. She received a big gift basket for her efforts.

Hip Hop
This month we had a new Friday Activity class called Hip Hop Class, which taught street language and idioms. It was extremely popular and we will make this a regular part of our program. Thanks to Adrian and Paul for developing this creative new program. Thanks also to Aida, our spelling master who has also worked as a Hip Hop Dance Instructor back in Germany, for giving fabulous Hip Hop lessons a few afternoons!

Casino Grad
We had our annual Casino grad party to finish up a very busy Spring at CSLI. We all had a great time winning loads of prizes and celebrating with our March Student of the Month, Christoph Tonder from Germany, who is now busy working with his internship company, Parmasters International. One day soon he will return to class to collect his one-month full-time prize for winning this award.

Look who's talking
Hello, CSLI! from PACO JARAMILLO
This is the perfect opportunity to say hello to each of you guys. The last year was for me really busy, I'm working a lot and really hard. Anyway, I still have with me a lot of things from Canada, Vancouver and CSLI. Every time when I have the opportunity I talk about my great days in Vancouver and in the school, and I still feel the same emotion talking about this as if I had just come back from there some weeks ago. In one of these opportunities, when I was talking with someone about my time there, I made a reflection for myself about how my life changed after this. The opportunities to learn about different cultures, the opportunity to learn English as easy as make friends, make jokes and talk with people, the opportunity to learn about life and learn about myself. I still have a lot of friends that I met in CSLI; I have contact with some more often than with others.

Just some weeks ago finally I had the opportunity to spend some days in Europe after a business trip in Dubai. I visited Kai and Sabine in Germany, Rosa in Amsterdam, and Martin in Zurich. All of these friends I met just in the classroom or in the coffee area or in the front desk of the school. And I still have in my agenda trips waiting, like to Japan to visit some friends there like Asami and Megumi, and to Korea to visit Jason (Mr. Joker). Last year I started to do business with an international company of medical equipment and guess where the company is from?............ For sure, it is a Canadian company located in Ottawa. All of these things are consequences of my wonderful time in Vancouver and in CSLI.

With all my love,
Paco

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