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From the Director • Credits • Special Thanks 4Where CELOP Students Come from 6Billiards Party at Jillian’s 7CELOP Pizza Party I 8Student Profiles: Ed Park • Betul Umit • Masato Koizumi • Keun Chan Yang 10

Marie-Christine Nguyen • Song Yong Won • Shin NarusakoFaculty Profiles: Nora Smith • Jeff DiIuglio • Ron Clark 16“My Second Independence Day” by Apisit Kantinan 20Walking Tour of Boston 22CELOP Alumni: Alp Tekyildiz • Rafael Ulloa 26Reunion after a quarter century 30Student Photos

Fourth of July Celebration—Marie-Christine Nguyen 21Photos by Eyup Tavukcuoglu and Alexandros Ninos 38Marsha Dean’s class at Rockport 56Photos by Amy Kim • Megumi Hisaoka 88

Student Writing“A Drive in Chile” by Alberto Barros 32“A Taiwanese Town” by Shih-Min Hsu 33“A Popular Story in Taiwan” by Hsiao-Ju Lee (Emma) 34“What English Means to Me” by Rui Zou 35“The Boston Public Garden” by Kaori Shibata 36“First Impressions of Boston” by Yumiko Naito 36“These Americans” by Veli Chabebe and Hamed Cissé 37“Foreign Cultures” by Laura García Gutiérrez 44“Observations on Americans” by Liliana Frutos 44“Strangeness of Boston” by Jacqueline Sanchez 45“Observations on Being Polite” by Apisit Kantinan 45“Cultural Differences” by Alexandros Ninos 46“Showing our Feelings” by Tamon Tanaka 46“Observations on the U.S.” by Kevin Park 47“An Ecuadorian Perspective” by Carmen Vaca 47“The U.S.—An Active Place” by Marie-Christine Nguyen 48“The Best Bakery in Boston” by Hsiao-Ju Lee (Emma) 52“Konditor Meister” by Masato Koizumi 53“Old Silver Beach, Cape Cod” by Minerva Di Giacomo 54“Class Trip to Provincetown” by Apisit Kantinan 55“Byung-Hyun Kim at Fenway” 55“TOEFL For International Students” by Keun Chang Yang (Ken) 79“Why the TOEFL?” by Shinichi Narusako 79

Postcards Home 42Major News Events of the Semester 51Class Pictures 58CELOP Pizza Party II 72Mystery Penpal Project with Photos by Eun Byul Kim 76Oral Communication and Presentation Skills Class—Presentations and Party 78Boston English Quiz 80Restaurant, Theater & Movie Reviews 82CELOP Statistics 92Building at Boston University 96Student Clubs: Movies •Sitcom • Short Story • Conversation • Slang 98Summer 2003 CELOP Faculty and Staff 104

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This is the 10th edition of the CELOP Semester Book. It is published every semester and available at the Front Deskfree of charge to all current students. All Semester Books can be downloaded from the CELOP Alumni Web site asAdobe Acrobat (pdf) documents, www.bu.edu/celop.

COVER: John de Szendeffy (fromphotographs by Lesley Andrewsand Megumi Hisaoka).

BACK COVER: Wendy Kohn

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Send correspondence regardingthe Semester Book to John deSzendeffy, [email protected].

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Editors John de Szendeffy, Chris Antonellis, Barbara BlissDesign John de SzendeffyProduction Assistance Lesley Andrews, Jonathan WhitePhotographers Lesley Andrews, Wendy KohnDistribution Nicole Buchholz, Gabriella CampozanoContributors Wendy Kohn, Jenn Kay Kosch, Lesley Andrews,

also Lara Gordon, Margot Valdivia, Jonathan White

CELOP SUMMER 2003 SEMESTER BOOK

Dear CELOP Students,

I am very pleased to have the opportunity to send you a personal

message at the end of the semester. At the beginning of your

program this summer, I welcomed you to Boston and to CELOP

at Boston University. Now I would like to congratulate you on

your successful completion of the Summer Semester. I sincerely

hope that you had a wonderful adventure here this semester,

improving your English language proficiency, broadening your

awareness about culture in the United States, making new friends, and exploring

new places in Boston.

The CELOP faculty and staff, and all the friends of the CELOP program, have

greatly enjoyed hosting all of you this summer. Although classes are ending, and

many of you will be returning to your countries, Semester Book Summer 2003

will keep your CELOP experience alive. Share your memories with your friends

and family. For those of you who are returning to CELOP in the fall, we hope you

continue to have an enjoyable and productive time here.

Best wishes,

Margot S. Valdivi

Director

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Most semesters, this book is a collaborative effort among students in the SemesterBook elective class as well as a few dedicated staff and faculty. This semester, wehad to forego the help of the elective class students. Nonetheless, dozens of stu-dents from all levels of CELOP classes contributed essays, pictures, and personal

experiences for this summer’s book.

While many people contributed to this book, one person, Wendy Kohn, a CELOPintern this summer, devoted most of her time with us to helping produce the book. Sheconducted all of the faculty and student interviews, took all of the class photos, edited pho-tos, analyzed student enrollment data to produce the graphs on pages 92–95, and assistedwith many other production tasks. This book would not have been possible this semester with-out her energy, enthusiasm, professionalism, and ability to learn very quickly. In Septem-ber she will return to Smith College in Northampton, MA, where she studies linguistics.

We would also like to thank a few teachers who went out of their way to make this bookas inclusive as possible, contributing student writing and photos of student outings and class trips: Chris Antonel-lis, Barbara Bliss, Pamela Couch, Judith Dan, Marsha Dean, Judy Di Leo, Joanne Fox, Doug Kohn, Jacquie LoConte,Doreen Miller, and Nora Smith. And one staff member, Jenn Kay Kosch, who could have virtually come up with herown Semester Book with her contacts with CELOP alumni and students taking advantage of the extra-curricular tripsand activities she organizes. Lesley Andrews and Jonathan White were, as usual with this project, indispensable.

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PROFILES

Students and faculty bring an amazing variety and depth of experience to CELOP. Wendy Kohn interviewed a few stu-dents to get a sense of that experience and and their ambitions as well. Wendy also interviewed several CELOP fac-ulty about their teaching and travel experience.

PROFILES

INTERVIEW | Ed ParkStudent from South Korea

S ung Woong Park, known by most as “Ed,” came toBoston because he heard there were fewer Koreans there

than on the West Coast or Chicago. This might seem strange,considering that he is Korean himself. But Ed believes thatthis is the best way to learn a new language. At 26 years old,he has already studied Chinese and Japanese in his own coun-try. But it is important for him to learn conversational Eng-lish for his career, and he thinks that the best way to do thatis to be surrounded by English speakers all the time.

After studying business in school, Ed wants to go intoinvestment banking, possibly in the U.S. He realizes that wher-ever he works, many of the peoplehe works with will speak English,even if they are not American.Knowing a near-universal languageis not only helpful in business butalso in friendships. Ed has madefriends in the U.S. from many dif-ferent countries, but they can com-municate with each other becausethey all speak English.

There is another reason,however, that Ed wants to studyin the U.S. instead of in Korea.He says that in language classesin Korea, first they emphasizegrammar, then reading, then writ-ing. There seems to be very littleroom to learn speaking! Koreanshave little experience speakingEnglish because very few nativeEnglish speakers live in Korea, so Koreans are out of prac-tice and sometimes a bit shy. Another thing Ed says he doesnot get from his classes in Korea is a variety of expressionsfor the same idea. He points out that his teachers in Koreawill teach students “How are you?” but not “What’s up?” or

“How’s it going?” This makes it hard to really communicatein the English-speaking world, especially with native speak-ers who use a lot of idioms.

When asked what advice he would give to a new studentstudying abroad, Ed says, “Do everything with self-confi-

dence and passion.” He knowsof many Koreans who have stud-ied in the U.S. and returned toKorea because they were toouncomfortable with the unfamil-iar culture. The self-confidenceto improve his language skills isimportant in allowing Ed to ful-fill his educational goals. It alsohelps him make friends. When Isee Ed in the hallway, he is neverafraid to say “Hello” to me.

He also made the importantpoint that living in other culturesmakes you a more tolerant per-son. He gave the example ofaccepting that Americans coughat the dinner table, something hewould never do in Korea. Nowthat he has lived in America, heunderstands a perspective differ-

ent from his own. Being able to understand people in differ-ent cultures is something he thinks everyone should learn.He says of Americans (and presumably everyone else), “Theyare the same people in the world [as we are]. The only dif-ference is they speak English and we speak Korean.”

Knowing a near-universal language isnot only helpful in business but also infriendships. Ed has made friends inthe U.S. from many different countries,but they communicate in English.

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INTERVIEW | Betul Umit

Student from Turkey

Wendy: Why are you studying English in the U.S.?

Betul: I’m a lawyer in Turkey and in our office we are work-ing on international cases. That’s why I need to improvemy English, especially my legal English. And I heardfrom my friend, who is also a graduate from CELOP, thatthey have fine programs for every type of people, includingacademic programs, and also business English and legalEnglish. So I contacted CELOP, and I came here.

W: If you are working inTurkey, why do you need toknow English? Are yourscases conducted or recordedin English?

B: Well, we are representing foreignclients, for example BBC Inter-national, DLT Entertainment,Goodyear, and John Deere.These are companies which arebased in America or England,and they have internationalbusiness relationships betweenTurkish companies. They havejoint venture companies withTurkish companies. When acompany does business in anothercountry, they should have knowl-edge about the law of that coun-try. Although we are dealingwith Turkish Law in Turkey weneed fluent English to communicate with our clients.

In our law firm there are specialized attorneys workingon different specialized areas of law like patent, trademark,commerce, media and criminal law. According to our client’saim we are giving our legal advice before they start to workwith other companies in Turkey, preparing agreements, reg-istering their patent licenses in Turkish patent office and inthe event of any dispute we represent them in court. We haveto express the events and the legal rules first to be helpfuland to be successful. That’s why we need fluent English.

W: I heard you met someone famous recently.

B: Here I had the chance to go to Harvard Law School. Therewas a [week-long] program named “Instructions for

Lawyers” in Harvard Law School,and when I went there I wasalready studying some cases inBoston and America. The LaciPeterson case was one of them, andeveryone here was talking about thesimilarities and differences betweenthe O.J. Simpson case [and thePeterson case]. When I learnedthat one of O.J. Simpson’s attor-neys, Alan Dershowitz, was a pro-fessor at Harvard Law School Iwanted to ask his opinion. Luck-ily I was just on his floor trying tofind his room and we made eye con-tact and he asked me, “Are youlooking for me?” and I said,“What is your name?” and thenwe met. I learned that he was inTurkey 4 years ago and he likedTurkey. I invited him, and he gaveme his book about the O.J. Simp-son case. We talked about crime

cases and the topic of his new book. He invited me to talkmore, so after I finish reading his book I will go again andwe will talk about some more cases.

W: Have you studied at other universities in the U.S.?

B: Harvard Law School in that program. And it was nice toget CELOP’s attention and care in my studies because theywere helpful for me to give me permission [to miss a week ofclasses for the program], and also I got the feeling that theyare behind me every step I take. They are more than teach-ers or staff sometimes—they are just friends, and I lovethem. You cannot have any chance to feel yourself alone here.

I get the feeling that CELOP isbehind me every step I take.They are more than teachers orstaff sometimes—they are justfriends, and I love them.


INTERVIEW | Masato KoizumiStudent from Japan

Wendy: How do you practice English outside of CELOP?

Masato: Outside of CELOP I have two conversation partnersthat I found by myself. I meet with them once a week. I talkto my conversation partners for almost two hours. Andthey study Japanese, so we speak Japanese too, but they can’tspeak it very well, so we talk 90% in English, 10% inJapanese. It’s good for me. Also every Wednesday I do vol-unteer work providing food for homeless people.

W: Did you do that in Japan?

M: No, never. Actually I hatedvolunteer work. But now it’sgood for me.

W: Why do you like it? Tellme what’s fun about it.

M: It’s volunteer, so I don’t have toomany tasks, too much pressure. IfI get money, it’s complicated. Here,my mind is at ease. Also, I canmeet a lot of people every week.

W: How did you find your con-versation partners?

M: I found them on the Internet. Iwrote my E-mail address on anotice board and some peopleresponded. Then I contacted them.

W: What else do you like to do when you’re outside ofclass? Do you have any hobbies?

M: I like to listen to music. Actually, I played the saxophonefor seven years, but now I don’t have a saxophone, so I justlisten to music. I want to play some music.

W: Is there anything else that was new to you when youcame to the U.S.? Was anything really shocking?

M: I never really got culture shock, I don’t know why. I reallyreally like American culture and people.

W: What do you think is the biggest difference betweenyour life in Japan and America?

M: I get more activity here. When I was in Japan I had apart-time job and school. It just went two ways: go to part-time job, go to school. But since I came here, I go somewhereevery weekend. I go to movies, sometimes parties.

W: I know that you go to Jenn Kay’s clubs. Which ofthose do you like best?

M: I like the Simpsons Club. The Simpsons is so funny!

W: Did you watch The Simpsons before you came to the U.S.?

M: Yes, but one time, and it was in Japanese.

W: Do you feel like that’s help-ing you with your English alot? Are you learning a lot ofnew slang expressions?

M: Yes. But it’s kind of hard tounderstand. It’s too fast.

W: What do you hope to doafter this semester is over?

M: I have to go back to Japan. Ihave to go back to my university.I have to graduate.

W: When you go back toJapan, what will miss the mostabout the U.S.?

M: My friends. Before here, I wasat Missouri State for nine months,

and now I miss my friends from Missouri State. When Igo back to Japan I will miss my friends at Missouri stateand in Boston.

W: Is there anything else you want to say about CELOP,about Boston?

M: Yes, I really like Americans and the U.S. I don’t know why,but I’m so comfortable living in the U.S.A., hanging outwith American friends.


INTERVIEW | Keun Chan Yang (Ken)Student from South Korea

K en Yang has a history of learning English by unusualmethods. He has taken conventional English classes

in Korea, but he was also encouraged to learn the languagein some more adventurous ways.

“During my university years, my father was crazy aboutEnglish,” he says. Wanting Ken to learn English, his fatherbought plane tickets to variousEnglish-speaking cities for Ken’svacations. Ken traveled to SanFrancisco, Portland, Boston andeven Oxford, England. “I think itwas a really good experience.”

In Oxford he talked to hisclassmates in English as much ashe could. Sometimes he and hisfriends would go to bars and buybeers for strangers who were will-ing to talk to them in English. Hemade lots of friends in the bar thisway because most people wouldspeak English to them just to getthe beer. Unfortunately he didnot meet any women this way.Once he and his friends werewalking on the street at 2:00 inthe morning and offered a home-less man some kebabs if he would

talk to them in English. Thethree ended up talking until 6:00in the morning! Ken said that atfirst they were afraid the man wasdangerous, but after talking tohim they realized that he had afascinating life.

In December 2001, Ken cameto the U.S. for a business trip, andhe studied English at MerrimackCollege while living in Andover.After studying at CELOP, hewould like to get an MBA at a uni-versity in the U.S. He acknowl-edges that the cost of living in theU.S. is much higher. However,he has friends in graduate schoolsin Korea and thinks that graduateschools here are better becausepeople here are more creative andlearn more actively.

INTERVIEW | Marie-Christine NguyenStudent from Switzerland

M arie-Christine already has a Ph.D. and a wonderfulcareer as a doctor in her home country of Switzer-

land, but now she wants to study English in the U.S. andtake the TOEFL.

Why? With her years of medical experience, she hopesto someday travel to developing countries and help peoplewho have inadequate medical resources. She said that becauseEnglish is spoken in so many countries, it will be helpful for

her to know more English before traveling. Also, she plans toget a Master’s degree in public health and knows that there aresome very strong medical programs in the U.S.

Instead of doing a lengthy service in other countries, shewould rather travel for only a year at a time and return toSwitzerland in between visits. The reason is that she wantsto keep up-to-date on medical practices in the more devel-oped countries and be able to share what she learns in othercountries when she goes home.

In addition to practicing modern medicine, Marie-Chris-tine used to practice acupuncture when she was young, buttoday she cannot practice it legally without a certificate. She

Sometimes he and his friendswould go to bars and buy beers forstrangers to talk to them in Eng-lish. He made lots of friends in thebar —most people would speakEnglish to them just to get the beer.

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had planned to go to China recently tobe trained as a certified acupuncturist,but her trip was postponed until Septem-ber because of the SARS outbreak.

Some Europeans told Marie-Chris-tine that America was not a good place tostudy English because Americans had badaccents compared to the British. She saysthat some Europeans have a negative viewof Americans. But so far there are manythings that Marie-Christine loves aboutthe United States. From a doctor’s pointof view, the greatest things include theban on smoking indoors, the healthfulfood options at universities, and the num-

ber of people who jog everyday—evenwhile pushing their babies in strollers orwalking their dogs! Marie-Christine alsolikes how helpful people here are tostrangers and how many young people shesees in church every Sunday.

When she is not in class, Marie-Chris-tine likes to jog along the Charles River, dogym jazz to her walkman twice a day, walkwith her classmates, read and attendweekly meetings of the Sitcom Club andShort Story Club at CELOP. This is hersecond semester at CELOP, and she saysthat her reading and writing skills haveimproved a lot since she came here.

INTERVIEW | Song Yong WonStudent from South Korea

I n contrast to the large number of lawyers and businessmenwho study at CELOP, Song has a different reason to learn

English. He is a Christian pastor who hopes to someday travelwith missionaries to Third World countries and perhaps workin theological seminaries in these coun-tries. He says that English is a usefullanguage to know if you want to travelanywhere in the world, even outside ofEngland and the U.S. English is quicklybecoming a universal language, andSong believes that there are moreopportunities for him if he has goodEnglish speaking skills. Also, more andmore foreigners are moving to Korea,and it is important to be able to com-municate with them.

As part of his career goals, Songplans to go to Yale University DivinitySchool in September to study system-atic theology. He hopes to someday geta Ph.D. as well. So far, he has enjoyedliving in Boston because it is the firsttime he has lived in a Western culture,which is quite different from where hegrew up. He said that Americans arereasonable people, but their life is a lit-

tle slower than in Korea, and sometimes he gets impatient.For example, he has been without phone service for a week.

As a Presbytarian pastor, Song is very interested in learn-ing about different denominations of Christianity in theU.S., such as Trappists, Mennonites, and Roman Catholics.He said that American Christians are more liberal than theones he knows in Korea, and in some ways this is a goodthing. For example, in Korea the churches have not yet

encountered the controversy ofwhether gay and lesbian Christiansshould be able to worship in thechurch. This debate is something newthat Song has encountered in Ameri-can churches, and it has made himmore aware.

Song had wonderful things to sayabout CELOP. He is very thankfulthat teachers here put equal emphasison reading, writing, listening andspeaking. Before coming to the U.S.,Song learned most of his English byreading, so he had minimal listeningand speaking skills. He also feels thatCELOP has prepared him very wellfor his graduate program at Yale. Hisonly wishes are that classes weresmaller and that they had more bond-ing fieldtrips and activities so that heand his classmates and teachers couldget to know each other better.


INTERVIEW | Shin NarusakoStudent from Japan

Wendy: What do you think are the biggest cultural dif-ferences between Americans and Japanese?

Shin: In our culture, the speaking way is “guess and choose.”We have to choose good words and the listener has to guesswhat exactly the speaker wants to say. But in the UnitedStates, I think almost everyone speaks more directly. It’sreally neat and different.

W: Do you think that thatis reflected in the cul-ture as well as the lan-guage?

S: I don’t know. But when Iwas in Japan, I was notsuch an indirect person!So for me [the Americanstyle] is very comfortable.It’s no problem.

W: What’s your favoritething about living inanother country?

S: Encountering new cultures,especially in Boston wherethere are a lot of interna-tional students. I tookonly one semester and met,like, ten cultures.

W: You said your person-ality matches morewith the American culture. Are there any other cul-tures you feel you match up well with?

S: I prefer South Americans. They always enjoy their lives.That’s really good. Actually, one of my best friends lastsemester—and still my best friend—is from Argentina,and he told me a lot of things like how to enjoy yourself inclubs, on the street, in the supermarket—everywhere!

W: How do you enjoy yourself in the supermarket?

S: When I was in Japan Iwent to supermarkets or shop-ping centers just to shop. Butlast semester I went there withno shopping to do. We walkedaround, talked a lot. Thatwas really funny because Ididn’t do that before.

W: What is your favoritesocial activity? What doyou like to do on the week-ends?

S: Clubs. Just clubs. That’smy favorite. Almost every sin-gle weekend night I go to clubsand dance with my friendsand talk with my friends.Then the next day, Saturday,around noon or so I wake up.These days I usually go to theCharles River and get tan. Atnight again I go to clubs. Forme Sunday is for laundry andhomework. So I don’t do any-

thing on Sunday—just laundry and homework.

W: Sounds like a great weekend. What do you thinkyou’ll miss most about America when you go home?

S: I think the lifestyle that I told you. Weekdays study hard,weekends enjoy. In Japan we don’t do it like that. We arenot so active. Of course we study hard. We work hard, Ithink, more than other countries. But we don’t enjoy ourlives. We just try to be hard workers. But I’m not so muchlike that. Hard working and enjoying, I am both.

Actually, one of my best friendslast semester—and still my bestfriend—is from Argentina,and he told me a lot of thingslike how to enjoy yourself inclubs, on the street, in thesupermarket—everywhere!

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INTERVIEW | Nora SmithCELOP Faculty

Wendy: I heard that you taught French in addition tobeing an English teacher. What do you find are thedifferences between teaching a native language anda non-native language?

Nora: There are a lot of similarities. When I taught French,the acceptable and most modernmethod was an immersionmethod. So we used French allthe time in class even in the verybeginning courses. That’s actu-ally how I learned French inhigh school. So from that pointof view my teaching French wassimilar to what we do in ESL,because we try to create as muchof a real life experience for thestudents as possible. The differ-ence was that [in the Frenchclasses] students could only beexposed to the language in theclassroom, so they didn’t haveas rich an experience as studentsdo when they come here to an English-speaking culture andcan leave the classroom and practice if they are motivated.

W: Is there any personal difference between teachingyour native language versus teaching a language thatyou had to learn yourself?

N: A really personal difference is that when I speak French Ihave access to a part of my personality that is not so activewhen I’m speaking English. And I think this happens topeople who really love another language and culture. That’sone of the reasons they study it and are drawn to it. Some-times I feel that there are parts of the brain you use whenyou learn a new language and that you don’t use in yourfirst language. So I actually have a little more animatedpersonality in French than I do in English. That makesspeaking French a lot of fun.

W: Do you think that that’s what drew you to wantingto teach another language in the first place?

N: No… well, I think it could have been an unconscious rea-

son. My conscious motivation was from the time I was verysmall I have always loved sounds and words, so that drewme to music but it also drew me to language. And from myearliest memory of hearing other people speak a languagethat I didn’t know, I was always very curious to understandwhat they were saying. Also, when I began to learn Frenchand then Spanish, whenever I learned a new language,that thrill of exploration and discovery, when the lightbulb goes on, when two people are trying to communicateand they suddenly understand each other, I still thrill toexperience that. I never spend a semester where I don’t learn

something.

W: When you were in school,were you studying to teachFrench or ESL? Where did youbegin this whole journey?

N: I was a child of the 60s whenI went to university, and I had agroup of friends who were, like me,studying for the sake of studying.Truly, when I was studying Frenchas my undergraduate major—Istudied French and botany—Iactually didn’t have any practicalideas about what I would do with

it. After graduating I traveled a little bit, but it becamevery clear that I needed to do something practical, and so Idid my fifth year to get my teacher’s certification. At thattime I was living in Los Angeles and started teachingFrench in middle and high school, and in LA in the 70s—as in many big cities in the States at that time—there weremany new immigrants, and the school system I was inneeded more ESL teachers. They had a program where theysent foreign language teachers to UCLA for methodology,and that’s how I got into ESL. From that time on I taughta combination of foreign language and ESL

W: Do you feel like you made the switch to ESL out ofchoice? How long have you been exclusively teach-ing English?

N: Since 1985, when I moved from the west coast to the eastcoast. I moved to New York, and there was more opportu-nity for me to teach ESL than French. I am not a nativespeaker of French, and at that time my standards for myselfwere that I had wanted to be the best possible teacher, so itseemed logical to me that I could offer more as a native


speaker of English. And I guess the reason that I’m goingback to teaching French is that I got laid off here at B.U.and French is my first love. I’ve been at B.U. for 13 years.And I’m trying to look at the layoff as an opportunityrather than a disadvantage. ESL right now is in an unsta-ble situation because of world events, and that affects peo-ple’s ability to travel here to study. I’m at a place where Ihave to make a big change in order to stay employed. I wantto go on to something that is close to my heart and excitingto me. Since I was teaching French full-time back in theearly 80s technology has changed and enhanced the avail-ability of materials to help create that immersion environ-ment to really learn a language. The World Wide Webmakes real French materials so much more available.

W: Do you feel like you get to go back and do the sec-ond half of an unfinished job in a way because of thenew technology?

N: Yes, I think you could say that. I have to think not toomuch about my age. I’m not alone in being in middle ageand mid-career and having to change. I think that theperiod when people kept one position for their working livesis truly over. So we all have to be flexible. The 13 years ofmy career at CELOP have offered me a lot of variety andopportunity to develop my skills, so I feel that if I can getpeople to look at the skills I have, I have a lot to offer, andthat’s true of everybody who works at CELOP. Our jobdescriptions as instructors of ESL only give you a hint of allthe different skills that the faculty here have.

INTERVIEW | Jeff DiIuglioCELOP Faculty

Wendy: How long have you been teaching at CELOP?

Jeff: I’ve been at CELOP since 1988, but I began teachingESL in 1978.

W: Did you ever teach any-where else?

J: Oh, I have taught in a lot ofother places. When I graduatedfrom Boston University in1978, I first started teachingat a language school in Bostoncalled ELS Language Centers.And then I went on to North-eastern University, where I’vebeen teaching for the past 20years and still teach. I teachbeginning-level Spanish also.In addition to my ESL teach-ing, I have a degree teachingEnglish to students of specialeducation, and I work at CurryCollege, in Milton, Mass., where I teach American stu-dents—not international students—composition and liter-ature classes.

W: Have you taught anywhere else besides the U.S.?

J: I am one of those people here who has not taught overseas.I’ve lived overseas. I spent my junior year abroad at theJohns Hopkins Center for International Studies in Bologna,Italy. I studied Italian language and lived with Italianstudents. I am of Italian-American background, so I vis-ited my relatives and explored my heritage. And that was

really nice. But I didn’t teach. In1991 I went to Salamanca, Spain,for a summer course in intensiveSpanish, and I lived with a Span-ish family there.

W: Did you prefer living witha family or with the other stu-dents?

J: I think as long as you’re livingwith native speakers [it doesn’t mat-ter]. When I was a college studentI was glad to live with other stu-dents. When I was older I livedwith a family, and that was fine.That’s what CELOP students reallyshould try to do: make connectionswith Americans in any way theycan. That’s where a lot of the real

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W: I was told to ask you about a specific trip to Italy along time ago. Was there a funny story?

J: I did travel to Italy, as I said, in 1975, and lived withItalian students. And I had some cross-cultural misun-derstandings with people. It was basically a very positivelearning experience. I also learned that Americans are notvery popular in Europe.And it does influence myview of teaching. I try toteach language and cul-ture but in a very non-intrusive way, not tryingto show “our way.” I justtry to present differentways of doing things, tomake it as non-cultur-ally-judgmental as pos-sible. We can also learn a lot from our students. That’salways what I think is so interesting about ESL is learn-ing from the students so many interesting things about back-grounds and cultural outlooks.

W: How did you decide that you wanted to get intoESL?

J: When I graduated college, I had a B.A. in European his-tory. That was my major at Dickinson, and I had minoredin Spanish. I took a job right after graduation in a dor-mitory at Manhattanville College supervising interna-tional students. I lived as a single man in a dorm withtwelve Saudi Arabian families and their children. Andfinally a very kind nun—because this was a Catholic col-lege—suggested to me that I go to Boston. She had heardof the TESOL program in its early stages under StevenMolinsky in 1978. It was really exciting then becausethe field was pretty new.

W: What did you think you were going to do beforethis TESOL program was suggested to you?

J: I thought I was going to be a teacher, but I couldn’t decidewhich field of teaching. I didn’t know if I wanted to be ahigh school or college teacher, and then I learned that Ireally preferred working with adults.

W: Why?

J: I think their lives, in someways, are more shapedalready. They are morereceptive to learning. Theydon’t need to be disciplined asmuch. I don’t like disciplin-ing students, and I did thatin high school for one year

and found it was not my cup of tea. Plus, with languageteaching like here at CELOP, we’re lucky to have classes ofsixteen or fewer students, whereas if you’re teaching Amer-icans you could be teaching up to thirty students.

W: My last question: do you have a favorite vocabularyunit that you teach?

J: That’s a good question. I’ve never thought of that. I havea unit in a reading book where we talk about food, holidays,and food customs and how those vary within the UnitedStates, say between the Northeast and the Southwest and theSouth. Students seem to be really curious about what we eatand drink. We really eat more than just burgers and frenchfries. Students have this very limited view of our cuisine.

The Semester Book team is alThe Semester Book team is alwaways looking fys looking for neor new ideas fw ideas for content.or content. WWe we wouldouldliklike to hear fre to hear from fom former CELOP students (alumni) about liformer CELOP students (alumni) about lif e after CELOPe after CELOP.. ContactContactus after yus after you leaou leavve CELOP this semestere CELOP this semester,, whether ywhether you rou return to yeturn to your countrour countr y ory orstastay in Boston or somey in Boston or somewherwhere else in the Ue else in the U.S..S. TTell us what yell us what you’ou’rre doing and send pice doing and send pic --turtures,es, if possibleif possible .. WWe’ll tre’ll tr y to include yy to include your experience in the next Semester Book.our experience in the next Semester Book.E-mail JE-mail John de Szendeffy at <[email protected]> ohn de Szendeffy at <[email protected]> andand <semesterbook@inbo<[email protected]>.x.net>.

Students seem to be really curiousabout what we eat and drink. Wereally eat more than just burgersand french fries. Students have thisvery limited view of our cuisine.


INTERVIEW | Ron ClarkCELOP Faculty

Wendy: Tell me how you started teaching ESL.

Ron: I started teaching ESL after looking for teaching positionsin literature and really couldn’t find any. I had a Mas-ter’s degree in American lit.—but not public school teachingcertification—and I was hoping to get some teaching in aprivate school or something like that. But I was competingagainst Ph.D.s so it never really worked. I can’t rememberhow I first got exposed to the concept of ESL. But at that timeI started learning about it, itmade a lot of sense to me becauseI liked language and culture. SoI went back for another Master’sin ESL at B.U.

W: Since you didn’t get yourstart in another foreign lan-guage, have you traveled toor lived in other countries?

R: Yes. In fact, I was a FulbrightScholar in 1993–94 and spentan academic year teaching Eng-lish in Slovakia. That’s my onelong-term overseas teachingassignment. I’ve taught two 3-week programs in Japan with theB.U. School of Management also.

W: You got a Fulbright scholar-ship after you had alreadystarted teaching ESL?

R: Yes. It was about four to five years into my career. It wasa very interesting experience.

W: Do you want to say anything about that?

R: I had had a long-term fascination with Eastern Europeand socialist cultures and everything that goes with thatworld. I had been reading a lot about those topics for yearsand years, and I also knew the odds were better of gettinga Fulbright assignment to Eastern Europe than some placeglamorous like Paris. So I applied to what was thenCzechoslovakia, but the country began splitting during the

process of my getting the scholar-ship. I was worried that thingswould have changed too much fromindependence in 1990 to when Igot there in fall of ‘93. But eventhree or four years after the fall ofthe Iron Curtain things were stillvery much in the old model. So itwas still a very fascinating placeto see. People were very nice andfriendly, as they usually arearound the world. Life was verysimple and somewhat bland, butsimple and basic and essential in anice way as well. I didn’t mindthe lack of commercialization andadvertising at all. It was refresh-ing to be in a place where they did-n’t have ads all around.

W: What else do you like todo outside of teaching?

R: I enjoy cooking, eating, and drinking. And I enjoy doingcarpentry and stuff like that on my home. And gardeningand spending time with my daughters. I have twin six-year-old girls.

W: Did your cooking and eating interests change aftertraveling abroad? Do you enjoy Slovakian cooking?

R: The food was definitely not a highlight, but since I enjoyedeating and trying all different kinds of foods, I enjoyedthat experience. On the other hand, the food in Japan isreally great.


Life [in Slovakia]was very sim-ple and somewhat bland, butsimple and basic and essential ina nice way as well. I didn’t mindthe lack of commercializationand advertising at all. It wasrefreshing to be in a place wherethey didn’t have ads all around.

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W: Have you tried to cook those things on your ownwhen you’re at home?

R: No, not so much Japanese. It’s labor-intensive. I haven’tquite mastered that.

W: Do you only teach the high-level business class?

R: I usually teach high-level business or low-intermediate. SoI’ll teach business for a semester or two and then get reas-signed down to low-intermediate or high-beginning. ThenI’ll do that for a semester or two and then get put back tobusiness. I like the contrast. It’s a different world, anddoing both ends keeps you on your toes. Also, I have donea lot of external programs with CELOP in cooperationwith the School of Management. That Japan program isa pre-MBA ESL warm-up, and I’ve taught InternationalStudent Orientations at the School of Management as well.I’ve also taught in the International Teaching Fellows Ori-entation in the College of Arts and Sciences, training incom-

ing teaching assistants.

W: What do you think you learn from your students?

R: I learn a lot of different things from my students. Factualthings that I never would have thought of. Of course Ilearn about their cultures and cuisines and religions. Themost valuable thing is a different point of view.

W: What is your favorite thing about working atCELOP?

R: The collegiality among the faculty and staff. It’s very nice,helpful, supportive. It’s not perfect, but you don’t find itin a lot of places—where you feel like the people aroundyou are genuinely interested in you as a person, your strug-gles and happiness. Here it’s always been a pleasure tocome in and be with my colleagues.

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T he ray of lightwoke me up to avery beautiful day.

The day began with suchwonderful weather—not toohot and cloudy.

July 4th had no mean-ing to me, so my friends and

I were waiting for fireworks. The day seemed longer thanother days. The Charles River Park was crowded by manypeople who wanted to see the fireworks celebration for theFourth of July, Independence Day. The weather there wasvery hot, even at 9:00 in the evening. We did not regret thetime that we spent waiting after the fireworks began at 10:45pm.

Even though I also saw the fireworks on July 4 last year,this year my feeling about everything about this day was sodifferent from the last time. I did not exactly know why I

felt like that, but when I saw the fireworks I was thinkingabout how many wonderful and incredible things that peo-ple have been creating, and how many things that peoplehad destroyed.

I hope someday the world will be peaceful, so everybodycan enjoy and have fun together in this small world like manynationalities come to enjoy and have fun in the celebrationday in a very small place like Charles River Park, even thoughit is not an important day in their countries.

The writer, from Thailand, is in Joanne Fox’s low advanced writing class.

by Apisit KantinanMy Second Independence Day

When I saw the fireworks Iwas thinking about how manywonderful and incrediblethings that people have beencreating, and how many thingsthat people had destroyed.


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Marie-ChristineNguyen, fromSwitzerland, is inMarsha Dean’score class.

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In front of the “living gargoyle”street performer at FaneuilHall/Quincy Market.

Photos on this page by Emi Kino, from Japan.

The Franklin Monument (a memorialfrom Benjamin Franklin to his par-ents) in the Granary Burying Ground.This cemetery is Boston’s oldest bur-ial place, first used in 1660.

In front of the MassachusettsState House on Beacon Hill.

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HISTORICAL TOUR OF BOSTON

On this three-hour tour students explore thefirst half of the Freedom Trail. We begin the tourat the Boston Common and end at FaneuilHall/Quincy Market. Along the way we visit manyplaces of historical and cultural significance,including the Massachusetts State House, the ParkStreet Church, two well known cemeteries fromthe 1600s, the Old South Meeting House (wherethe Boston Tea Party began), and the Old StateHouse. Along the way students also learn aboutseveral famous Bostonians, including Paul Revere,Samuel Adams, and Benjamin Franklin.

Fun facts students learned from the tour guide:

The Boston Common was once used as a train-ing field for the military, a grazing field for cat-tle, and as a location for the gallows where pirates,witches, and heretics (people with different reli-gious beliefs from the majority) were hanged.Today it is a place of public relaxation, celebra-tion, and demonstration.

A five-foot long carved wooden fish, called the“Sacred Cod” of Massachusetts, hangs in theHouse of Representatives’ chamber in the Mass-achusetts State House. It has hung there eversince the eighteenth century. It was installed inthe Old State House in1784 as a memorial tothe importance of cod fishing to the early econ-omy of the region. The head of the cod points atwhichever party is in power (Republicans orDemocrats). Once in 1933, the Sacred Cod wasstolen as a college prank but was safely returnedand still hangs there today.

In the courtyard in front of the Old City Hallstands a statue of Benjamin Franklin. Franklinexcelled as a printer, writer, editor, inventor, sci-entist, military officer, and politician. He is theonly American to sign all four critical documentsin Revolutionary-era history: The Declaration ofIndependence, the Treaty of Alliance with France,the Treaty of Peace with Great Britain, and theConstitution of the United States.

—Jenn Kay Kosch

The Shaw Memorial in the Boston Common, just infront of the State House. The Robert Gould Shawand 54th Regiment Memorial commemorates thefirst black regiment to be recruited in the north,fighting on the side of the Union Army in theAmerican Civil War. This important piece of publicart was dedicated on Memorial Day, 1897.

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[top left] Old City Hall, now home of the fine French restau-rant Maison Robert.[above] Old Corner Bookstore, a 19th cent. literary estab-lishment, built in 1712.[bottom] Old King’s Chapel on Tremont Street.

Photos on this and facing page by Megumi Hisaoka, from Japan, in Chris Antonellis’s class.

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[top left] Old burial ground behind Old King’s Chapel[top right] Memorial mosaic on the sidewalk by Old King’s Chapelon School Street marking the former location of the Boston LatinSchool.[right) Old Massachusetts State House, on State Street near Fanueil Hall.

[bottom left] Shin and Rafael ona donkey statue in front of theState House on Beacon Street.

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CELOP ALUMNI

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W hat you’re about to hear, youhave never heard before. Yes,this is the truth; I am a junky; I

have an addiction. It all started in the fall ofthe year two thousand. At this time, I was buta young man with a promising future. Iwanted to improve my English and there-fore, signed up for the CELOP semester,hoping to get a good TOEFL score. Little Iknew of what was about to happen to me; lit-tle did I know that I would become addicted.Ladies and Gentlemen, this is my . . .

Confession of anAddiction for CELOP

But first, I should list some details crit-ical to the comprehension of this text.

I have never had an addiction beforethese events.

I am sane of mind.I am single and available.

But in the end, all of this doesn’t matterfor the fatality of my misfortunes is real.When I first started taking classes atCELOP, everything was going very good. Imade very good friends pretty quickly, andwe are still keeping in touch nowadays.However those friends, whether they arestrong or not, courageous or not, cannothelp me today to solve my problem; and nei-ther could they when it happened . . .

The Drama!

Then the semester ended. We said good-

bye to our friends and we were all sad to seeeach other leaving. We knew though in ourhearts that it was ok to say goodbye, becausewe were lucky to have had the chance tomeet. We knew we should be happy aboutthe experience we all shared together. So, sadof our departures, but happy to have met, wesaid goodbye and went back to our normallives. I thought everything was fine. How-ever, after a few weeks, I realized somethingwas different, something was wrong. Some-thing happened . . .

The Drama!

Yes, something was terribly wrong. Thedilemma had gotten me to the very bone; thetumor was as big as my fist, and there seemedto be no escape. I could eat food, but not tasteit; I could do things in my leisure time, butnot enjoy them; I could play sports, but notfeel the exhaustion. I was forever doomed tothe reality that my life was lacking the veryelement that became my drug . . . I wasaddicted to CELOP! And so it was revealedto my eyes the horrible truth of . . .

The Drama!

Today, I am getting better. Thanks tothe help of the CELOP staff, I am prescribedwith small doses of CELOP every once in awhile to slowly reduce the effects of theaddiction on my body. I hope that soon I willcompletely recover. So now that you knowmy story, be warned that this could happento you. Handle CELOP with extreme cau-tion or you shall suffer what I have. You havebeen warned.

CELOP ALUMNI

Alp TekyildizCELOP Alumnus (Fall 2000), Switzerland

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Alp with friend, Megumi Hisaoka,on the Boston Walking Tour.

Alp, getting his kicks any way he can.

Posing, again, in front of the ShawMemorial on the Boston Common.

What’s a little gargoyle attack among friends?

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I still remember that day when I askedyou to go with me to buy the record player, anold one, a 78 revolutions-per-minute cheapmachine from the days of our grandparents. Yougave me a bad look and told me that you’drather stay home watching some sitcom on theTV. Also when I asked your help to cut the card-board 32 inches long and wide, and then cut thefigures inside, you chose to continue doing yourown activities. Thank God we still had enoughlight bulbs in our basement for me to use one.

You never really thought about what youwould miss. You never really considered whatyou could do. The dream machine finally wasassembled and operational and that way my daywas also complete, hours and hours in front ofthe cardboard, colors, explosions, colors, explo-sions, colors.

I invited you to see with your eyes wideshut. Nonsense! That is what my proposal seemsto you? I guess so. You couldn’t accept the factthat in some way it is possible to see withoutopening your eyes. You didn’t want to meet theperson waiting in the spinning tube while areflection of your mind was waiting there claim-ing your attention.

I didn’t see that, but I knew it was there.

I know it was there and it will be there in thedream machine, the machine of my dreams, yourdreams and the dreams of anybody who is readyto close his or her eyes to see more.

I told you about the elephant that morphedinto a human face. You laughed. I talked aboutthe vectors that slowly changed into pulsatingwaves and then into a rainbow and then into vec-tors and then into a tunnel. You laughed again.

After that I never again invited you to thedream machine and I started to have enough ofyour speeches when I used it. In order to keep incontrol of our life I preferred to return to theeveryday reality far away from the 78 revolu-tions-per-minute record player. It was better tofocus only on things I could see with my eyesopen, right?

Your smile returned to your face and youput the dream machine in our basement. Well,someday there might be another chance to tryagain and fly with eyes closed. The dreams, ifthat is the correct way to describe what is inside,will be waiting in any record player, in any card-board tube with special patterns and designs, inany light bulb, when those things are combinedin the right way and spinning at 78 revolutionsper minute.

A short story, essay, and poem by

Rafael UlloaCELOP Alumnus (Summer–Fall 2000, Summer 2001), from Ecuador

78 RPMPERHAPS YOU WILL NEVER WANT to try the dreammachine. Sometimes I just forget that for people like youmachines like mine are just stupid inventions from anadult who was not allowed to do many scientific experi-ments as a child. Well, it is the truth, I couldn’t do manyexperiments. What else I can say?

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Is Somebody, Somewhere Thinking about You?

H ello! Right now, you are in front of this page after justhaving one of the last classes of your semester… or per-

haps many months after you finished your semester (rumorsays some CELOP students don’t read the articles the firsttime they receive the Semester Book).

What matters is that you are in front of this page, read-ing this. Why did I start this essay trying to make you awareof what you are doing? Well, it is not to create a differentstyle of writing or to catch your attention. I just wanted tomake a point: One way or another you are about to leavebehind one experience and soon face a different one.

You are going to start your college life in the U.S., inyour own country, or elsewhere. Perhaps you are going backhome to return to your job, get married, become a chef or anastronaut, take care of your children or hang out with yourfriends. The important thing is that your time in Boston isending and some change will come. Even if you will con-tinue at CELOP for another semester or for many semestersmore, this semester is already finished.

By now, you can probably speak better English, you havelearned how to use English grammar properly, you are ableto write better than me—not too difficult to accomplish, Iguess—and “John” and “Jane” from the TOEFL recordingare your best friends. Congratulations! Those are part of theCELOP experience, and thank your god it is because youhave invested money and time in your education.

Taking your academic learning experience for granted,I would like to ask you what else you got from CELOP? Ifyour answer is “free pizza,” that’s a good joke, but now I amtalking seriously and pay attention because that doesn’t hap-pen too often (ha ha). Well, I hope that when you were inCELOP you also became as rich as I did. I am not makingreference to my Fleet account, which by now must be onlytwo digits, at the most, but to my “friendship account” thatcannot be measured in numbers. When you are interactingwith so many nice people from all over the world, you havethe privilege of being able to start relationships. I say privi-lege, because not everybody has the same access to potentialfriends from all over the globe.

How many new friends have you made? A few? Many? Ifyou made only one foreign friend or if you hung around withthe “United Nations,” be aware that this should not be a“short term investment.” Those friends you made at CELOPare valuable possessions, and, as such, you need to take careof them. That means you need to be proactive and keep intouch with them. You know, in the era of E-mail and instantmessenging there are no excuses for being out of touch.

Now, if you did not make friends because you are too shyor because that was your choice, I don’t mean to make you feelbad about it. Well, maybe a little bad because that way nexttime you will overcome difficulties and start friendships.Maybe next time you will find the time to have a drink withthe friend who asked for your company. Or maybe you willconsider introducing yourself to a person you want to knowor try to be more familiar with other cultures and at the sametime teach others more about your own traditions.

Wouldn’t it be nice to have someone, somewhere think-ing about you all day around the clock? I find that fascinat-ing, and knowing that I have friends in many countries on theother side of the world that are aware of my existence whenI am sleeping in Boston makes me realize that I am lucky

I am tired of the daysCover my eyes with your handsAnd lift me up from the floorHigh please, I need to float

I know it is not idealIt is far from acceptableBut understand my mindAnd only for todayOnly todayI will surrender before I start

Without my feet on the groundFlying high, drifting awayI need you behind my wheelOnly for today

And in the nights that are so boringPlease hide me under your sheetsAnd don’t turn on the lightsI don’t want to see anything

I know that you didn’t expected thisAnd maybe you want to scream nowBut stare at my emotionless faceAnd only for todayOnly todayI will surrender before I start

—Rafael Ulloa


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Reunion after a Quarter Century

J aime and Nora Baena, from Colom-bia, met in their CELOP class in

1979. They both stayed in Boston fortwo years after CELOP. Nora got her

Master’s degree in Architecture fromMIT and Jaime his MBA from BabsonCollege. They got married and now havethree children, one girl and two boys.They are shown below reunited withtheir teacher Susan Vik, who is theteacher this summer of their goddaugh-ter, Natalia Silva, pictured on the right.

Susan Vik, Jaime Baena, Nora Baena, and Natalia Silva in the CELOP foyer.

and gives me strength when I am facing difficulties.Most of those friends are people I met at CELOP. They

are exceptional people that I keep communicating with evenyears after my CELOP experience. Some of them I met aroundthe lobby or at an activity after I had already finished myprogram at CELOP and was volunteering to help new stu-dents who had just arrived. This demonstrates that 12 weeksof seeing somebody is not a mandatory requirement in orderto make a good friendship. You can make friends anywhere!

Anyway, in the paragraphs above, I shared my point of

view with you all. The last thing is that if you want one morefriend in Boston, never hesitate in contacting me. I knowhow difficult it is to start a new life after CELOP. Write meto let me know if somebody somewhere is thinking aboutyou 24 hours a day. Good luck in your future!

You can contact Rafael Ulloa at [email protected]

Dedicated to all the wonderful people I have met at CELOP or becauseof CELOP, including current and former students, roommates, class-mates, staff, and teachers. Especially dedicated to those who became myclosest friends and supported me in different ways. You know who you are.

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CELOP has brought togethermany happy couples. Hereare two that come to mind:

Fall 1986: Sana from Lebanon &Pierre from Switzerland.

Fall 1999: Naoko & Masahiro,both from Japan.

This business is owned by a former CELOP student from Turkey, Cengiz Hocaoglu.

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D riving north on the highway, I’m just leaving San-tiago, the main city of Chile and where I live. Thehighway is huge (it has four lanes in each direc-

tion). The environment is not a thing to be enthralled by: bigfactories on both sides of the highway turn into an ugly thing.There used to be beautiful countryside there, but still thereare some fertile vineyards and lettuce fields giving the grayscenario a little green.

On my left, in the air, I can see airplanes landing at theinternational airport. They are not very close, but you can seethem a couple of miles away. There aren’t many either; atthree o’clock in the afternoon you’re lucky to see one ofthem.

Ten minutes after I stop seeing residential neighbor-hoods I get to the first toll plaza. That’s the problem withhighways: to have fun you have to pay for it. There aren’t alot of factories now; the principal thing is the country side.

The highway starts climbing the first group of hills thatremind me that I’m leaving the Santiago valley. It’s a longand slow way up, and it’s very noticeable how the trees andvegetation decline quickly. Instead of the country you cansee a kind of savannah, with a lot of hawthorns and dry grass.

When I get to the top of thehill I look back for the last timeat the Valley, far away downtownSantiago and a lot of smog. Icouldn’t feel better about leavingthe city behind. I enter anothervalley (I don’t know the name ofit). Now the landscape looksabsolutely like the savannah. I tryto find the lions but I can’t (I’mjoking). It takes me about 15 min-utes to get through it and then Ihave to climb another group ofhills. This is the difficult part of my trip because my car getsreally hot climbing like this. It’s a really steep slope and myold car doesn’t like this kind of challenge at all.

While I’m praying that nothing will happen to my car,I see on my right a kind of amusement park. This park hasthe tendency to be empty, but it has resisted the passing ofthe years. I have always thought that it has to be a placewhere the bad guys launder their money. The park is rightin the middle of the way to the top of the hill. After ten min-

utes climbing it straight, I get to the highest place I’m goingto be on my trip. The landscape is still very dry but thereare a lot of hawthorns. During the winter, when it rains alittle, all the ground turns green and you can get easilybewitched by it, but the most beautiful thing about the placeare the marvelous views of the Andes mountains on yourright and the loneliness of the place. It is about 40 kilome-ters drive from the first slope leaving the Santiago valley toa little further than I am now, where apart from a couple ofhamlets, you don’t see anything but goats trying to find somegrass to eat.

The scenery is changing again. Huge groups of stonescan be seen on both sides of the highway that is not welltraveled at this point. The highway starts descending sharplyafter a couple of signs showing skulls reminding the truckand bus drivers to slow their speed. Now I’m leaving theAndes mountains.

When I get to the bottom of the slope I enter the incred-ibly fertile “Punchuncavi Valley,” where an important per-centage of the world’s avocados are grown. Everything isgreen, and you can also see now many more houses on thesides of the highway than a couple of minutes ago. I pass infront of “Toro Fruit,” a Chilean restaurant very well knownby travelers because it is cheap and delicious. Their selec-tion of sandwiches, for example, is really amazing.

Crossing the valley takes me about 35 minutes. Thehighway goes near the big Aconcagua river, which is one of

the reasons for the prosperity ofthe area. Behind me I can seenow Mount Aconcagua, which,at 7,000 meters, is the highest ofthe Andes mountains.

At the end of the valley I turnleft and start what will be the lastpart of my trip. After I climb lit-tle groups of hills (the coastalmountains), the weather turnscooler and there is a little fog. Ican see the sea 30 kilometersahead while I’m descending from

the mountains. Big eucalyptus trees are on the sides of theroad (I already left the highway). There are some bushestoo.

When I get to “Cachagua,” my final destination, I’m sotired that I just talk a little with my friends and go to bed,ready for my first night at the beach that is always the best.

The writer, from Chile, is in Judy DiLeo’s high-intermediate Academic/Professional Writing class.

by Alberto BarrosA Drive in Chile

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S hing Chung is the name of the city in which my fam-ily has lived for a long time. Since I was born, my par-ents have lived there. We did move once, one block

away from the first apartment. Infact, the Hsu family has lived inShing Chung for more than twohundred years. My father once toldme that when he was a child therewas farmland everywhere in this“town,” and neighbors knew eachother at that time. Yes, I could alsosee a few fields near my home, butwe hadn’t been so familiar with ourneighbors since this friendly littletown was developed into a busy city.

My father’s job is to buildhouses and then sell them, so whenI was just five or six years old, myfather sometimes took me to sites where the houses werebeing built. Usually, he also showed me other new buildingsand told me who built them and what their functions were.For this reason, I think I have a better idea about how myhometown has been devel-oped than other people inthis city have.

My mother worked asa nurse in a specific kindof traditional Chinesehospital, but she quit herjob when she got married.In the old-fashioned Chi-nese culture, after womenget married, their obliga-tion is to take care of theirchildren and do all thehousework. And this iswhat my mother did.Every day she got up at5:00 in the morning inorder to participate thedancing club in the com-munity park, and then shewould buy food in themarket on the way home. After all of us went to school orwork, she started to do the laundry and clean the house. Sheusually took a nap before we returned, and then she would

begin to prepare dinner. Even today, she does exactly thesame thing every day. I once asked her why didn’t she take arest and let me share some of her daily work, and sheresponded that she just could not stop.

When I was an elementary school student, my family,my parents, one older brother, one younger sister and I, livedon the second floor of an apartment. There were two bed-

rooms, one for my parents and onefor the children; however, the chil-dren’s room was not big enoughfor three children, so we alwaysstudied, played and slept in the liv-ing room. Beside the living roomwas a balcony, where my motherdid the laundry every day and mywonderland. Every day after I fin-ished my homework, I hung outon the balcony and watched peoplepassing by or listened to neighborschatting below.

Sometimes my mother wouldtake me to the market. It was a tra-

ditional market where I could see various kinds of stores andvendors. In one store, I could see how the butcher cut themeat and hung it by the window so that customers could seethe fresh meat while they were passing by. In another store,

I could see colorful veg-etables, fruits, and some-times fish displayed on ahuge table. In this marketthere were still other ven-dors who sold snacks,hardware, and things thatI didn’t know. When I wasbored on the weekend, Isometimes went to themarket alone andexplored for somethingnew or interesting.

Occasionally, wewould walk more thantwenty minutes along theShing Tai road to ShingChung street. Shing Tairoad was the route whichconnected Shing Chungcity to another city, Tai

Shan. Because of the busy traffic and accidents that some-

by Shih-Min HsuA Taiwanese Town

Shing Chung in the 1950s.

Taiwan’s New Year’s celebration.



times happened, my parentsprohibited us from playing andwalking alone along this road.For this reason, we kids alwayscalled it “the Devil’s road,”even though today, the num-ber of accidents seems not asserious as we had ever thought.

Shing Chung Street is theoldest street in this small city. Itwas the busiest street in thepast, and now it hasbecome alandmark of Shing Chung city.In this area, we preserved thetraditional buildings, includ-ing two famous historic tem-ples where my family wouldcelebrate the Chinese NewYear. Beside the buildings, wehad stores that sold traditionalproducts which were rare else-where. At night, Shing ChungStreet became a night marketwhere vendors would comeout and sell their products,such as clothes, music tapes,accessories, ice cream, juicesand various kinds of food. Thiswas the only place that myparents would take us at night.

Before I studied architec-ture, I was always excited aboutevery development and changethat occurred in the city. Butthe more I have studied, themore problems that I cansense. Not all the develop-ments are good or necessary;usually we make somethingnew and then we lose otherthings which might be themore important to our society.Right now, those farmlands,which I could see and where Icould play in the mud, havedisappeared. People no longerwalk on the street; instead,they ride motorcycles or drivecars. Today, numerous “roadsof devil” have been built so thatchildren are always asked tostay at home. Fortunately, eventhough new supermarkets haveopened everywhere, peoplestill buy things in the tradi-tional market. At least, I haveone place to go, if I feel boredon the weekend.

The writer, from Taiwan, is in DougKohn’s American Culture through

Movies elective.

Shing Chung Street at night.

Shing Chung Street.

O ne day, little Jack went to school. His friends said tohim, “Ha! Jack. Your head is very similar to a kite.”When Jack listened to the words, he felt very sad

because he thought his head was very strange to other peo-ple. After that, his teacher came to the classroom. She lookedat Jack and said, “What’s wrong with you, my dear Jack?”

Jack looked unhappy. His teacher was worried abouthim. Jack said to his teacher, “My classmates said my head

looked like a kite.” His teacher listened to him and felt a lit-tle surprised. She look at him from head to toe. Then hereyes stopped at his head and she said, “Hmm . . . , they wereright. Your head is similar to a kite.” When Jack heard thewords, he began cry to and ran home. His mother, who sawJack crying, was very anxious for her child and asked him,“Oh my son, what happened at school?” Jack cried veryloudly and said, “Mama, my teacher and classmates said myhead was like a kite!” His mother looked at him and said,“Yes, your head looks a little like a kite.” Jack listened towhat his mother said, and he ran crying out of the house.He continued running, and then, he flew!

The writer, from Taiwan, is in Barbara Bliss and Doreen Miller’s class.

by Hsiao-Ju Lee (Emma)A Popular Story in Taiwan


H ave you had any of these experiences: you feel nerv-ous when your telephone rings; you feel embar-rassed when you talk to someone with a trembling

voice; you feel upset when you try very hard to explain whatyou mean, but people are still confused, or people laugh at youdue to your unclear pronunciation? Have you ever thoughtabout how important master-ing English is? To me and otherforeigners, it is crucial.

I have experienced embar-rassment, so I have tried manyways to avoid talking to peoplein order to preserve my self-esteem. I think people may for-give me because I am a for-eigner, and they do not expecttoo much from me. But thehardest lesson happened in2000, when I gave birth to mypremature daughter. She wasso tiny that she could neithersuck milk nor maintain her temperature. Three days afterbirth, she also developed jaundice. Doctors expected her torecover quickly, but the test results showed otherwise. Inonly one day, her situation worsened, and her pink skinturned very yellow. Her doctor called urgently and I had tobring her back to the hospital immediately. She was put in anultraviolet incubator, but the treatment failed to improveher condition. The worried doctors decided to take the laststep to save her—to give her a blood transfusion.

But the problem was that she risked having AIDS due tothe possibility of contaminated blood. It was so risky that Icould not sign the agreement to authorize the blood trans-fusion. There was only one hope: to check if either my hus-band’s blood or mine could match hers. If so, she would havethe transfusion done without risk. But I could not explainthis to the doctors in English, and my husband was away. Iwas terribly frustrated and desperate, and I madly hopedsomeone could help.

“Help me! I can not speak English!”

The desperate cry was from my soul to beg for help. Iwas sad, terrified, and nervous while I was waiting for thenurses who tried to find a bilingual person. I felt so frozenthat I was unable to hold the pen to sign the document. Every

tick of the clock struck my heart and forced me to feel breath-less. Unfortunately, they could not find anyone.

My mind was blank when the nurses told me, one byone, “Sorry . . . ! No! . . .”

I dropped the pen, fright-ened by the news, and myheart sank hopelessly. It wasvery urgent, and there was nomore time that could bewasted, so the doctor trans-ferred my daughter to theICU. I fell down after I sawmy lifeless daughter beingpushed away, and I touchedthe pen again. Suddenly, alight of hope flashed into myblank mind: “draw pictures!”I finished several drafts in ashort time. The first one

showed two people related to a baby with blood types nextto each person. There were question marks showing thequestions about the possibility of transfusion. The secondpicture was a clock with a question mark and a male whowas running, which explained my husband was on his way.The third picture was about a question mark between a hugeclock face and an upset baby. I wanted to ask how long thebaby could wait for the blood-matching test. With my biol-ogy background and a little drawing skill, I succeeded inmaking the doctors understand that either my husband or Imight give blood. Fortunately, my blood type matched mydaughter’s and I gave blood to her. When I saw my bloodbeing transferred to her, I was relieved, and I felt my temper-ature, which had fallen so that I felt icy cold, start to recover.I could not image what my life would have been like if I hadnot saved my daughter because of my poor English.

After the incident, I insisted in going to school and learn-ing English from the very beginning, regardless of my strongself-esteem. I had to do my best to prevent such terrible inci-dent from happening again. Whenever I see my daughter’slovely smile, I really appreciate the doctors who understoodmy drawings and also reminded me to study as hard as I can.

The writer, from China, is in Judith Dan’s advanced writing class.

by Rui ZouWhat English Means to Me I could not image what my life would

have been like if I had not saved mydaughter because of my poor English.


W hen I arrived inBoston, I was veryworried about staying

here because here I could notmeet my family and my friends. Iam very shy, so I thought I couldnot make friends quickly. Iwanted to go back to Japan assoon as possible. I missed myfamily and my friends very muchat that time.

From the airport, I took a taxi,

and I found Boston University. However, it was too big tofind my dormitory. Finally, when I arrived in my room, Iwas so tired that I could not talk about a lot of things with myroommate. Her name is Young-Hee. She is Korean. Shetalked a lot about herself the next night, and I talked to herabout me. Although I wanted to talk to her about a lot ofthings, I could not speak English very well. Nevertheless, shelistened very attentively. That night I thought we could begood friends. Because of her graciousness, I could make a lotof Korean friends. We went shopping together, we saw somemovies and cried together. I enjoy my life with her in Boston.

I sometimes miss my family and my friends, but I do notthink that I want to go back to Japan now. I want to learn alot of things here. Most of all, I want to enjoy my life withmy new friends here.

The writer, from Japan, is in Barbara Bliss and Doreen Miller’s class.

by Yumiko NaitoFirst Impressions of Boston

F rom Park Street station if you walk through theBoston Common to the west and pass Charles Street,you will see a gate with the Boston emblem on it.

This gate opens to the Public Garden. The Garden was adismal place until the beginning of the 19th century. How-ever, in the middle of the 19th century, it was reincarnatedas a botanical garden and became the beautiful place it istoday.

Walking through theentrance, you can feel the differ-ent air, just like you are in aBritish garden. Even thoughthere are many people, you willprobably find your own spacethere. If you walk straight to thewest (Arlington St.), you will findcolorful flowers and trimmedgreen trees on both sides. Thegreen may remind you of Monet’spictures. In the middle of thegarden, there is a little archbridge. From the bridge you seethe Swan Boats, a special attrac-tion of this garden. The SwanBoats have over a 120-year his-

tory. From spring through summer, visitors enjoy riding inthe Swan Boats, which are moved by pedaling.

Alongside the Swan Boats, ducklings and ducks areswimming on the pond. Especially the ducklings attract vis-itors. When you walk around the pond, you will see bothswimming and walking ducklings, just like the picture book,Make Way for Ducklings by Robert McCloskey. In the northof the garden, there are bronze statues of the mother (Mrs.Mallard) and eight ducklings (Jack, Kack, Lack, Mack, Nack,Ouack, Pack, and Quack). The whole garden’s mood is calmand relaxed; however, this part of the garden has on activefeel. In front of the ducklings there are many children and

their parents or grandparents tak-ing pictures. Especially themother duck statue is very pop-ular among children because theycan ride on her.

In the Public Garden, visitorswill find a different space. Peopleof all ages can enjoy the PublicGarden. Despite being in themiddle of the city, you will beamazed by the relaxed, holiday,easygoing, vibrant, and joyfulatmosphere of the garden.

The writer, from Japan, is in PamelaCouch’s English for Media and

Communication Studies class.

by Kaori ShibataThe Boston Public Garden

Pamela Couch’s niece, Lissie, on Mrs. Mal-lard in the Boston Public Garden.


S ince I came to theU.S. I have learnedmany things about

Americans and Americanculture. Something thatreally impressed me is theindependence that theyhave. In fact, they are verydirect with the things thatthey have to say and do. Inmy country it is very differ-ent because nobody gets tothe point.

There are many thingsthat are new for me like doing laundry. I’m so happy withthis experience because when you grow up in a society thatis very small things are very different, perhaps completelydifferent, it is very nice when you see a young person livingalone and taking care of himself.

The Americans are the most polite people that I haveknown and one good reason for me for that is they live theirown lives. They don’t care about the neighbors, they onlypay attention to the things that are really important for them.

They are very intelligent with everything, they have alot of chances to go to school and college. They are loyal tothe nation they love and respect the country. They havemany chances to live a good and reasonable life with every-thing that they need.

When I visited all the museums it is nice to have so muchknowledge about this country because is very interesting seeall the things inside of the museum, the way you feel thatyou are in that moment. In the United States I can enjoy somany beautiful places and cities and learn the history aboutthat city.

The writer, from the Dominican Republic, is in Jacquie LoConte’s Academic English class.

by Veli ChabebeThese Americans

S ince I came to theU.S., I have learnedmany things about

Americans and Americanculture. I have been herein the U.S. since January.I have been living withAmerican people since Icame here. Americans arereally different from theother people that I havemet. These people arereally amazing. The first

thing that I noticed is the kindness of American people. Dur-ing my first days here I was looking for a place, everybodythat I asked on the street helped me, the amazing thing was

they knew that I didn’t speak English but they tried to figureout what I was saying and helped me.

I also had an American friend. He was very kind andhelpful to me. Every time I needed help for my homeworkhe was always available to help me. As I was new in the dorm,he took me out in his free time. He even taught me how toplay pool. These people are very interesting and I am stilllearning about them.

American culture is different from all that I have known.These people are strict. For example, if you have a meetingyou have to be on time. If you are not they are not going towait for you. Everything is strict here. In the American cus-tom you can not visit somebody, even a relative or a friend,without calling before.

The writer, from Mali, is in Jacquie Lo Conte’s Academic English class.

by Hamed CisséKindness of Strangers

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A day at Revere Beach, the closest beach to Boston.


Lunch at the Cheesecake Factory.

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Dear Hellen,

I have been i

n the U.S. for t

hree months.

When you pay

for your food

in a restaura

nt,

you must pa

y a 15 percent tip.

Back home,

we don’t pay

an extra tip.

Another strang

e

custom is thi

s: Here, parking

is not easy.

In my hometown we can

park anywhere.

There is anoth

er strange cu

stom. In America t

hey don’t hav

e

many 24-hour stores,

so you canno

t buy something

deep in the ni

ght. In

Taiwan, there are

many 24-hour stores e

verywhere. It is so

convenient.

I am learning a

lot about American

customs. Don’t w

orry

about me! I

miss you.

Your good frie

nd.

—Hsin

These students are in Chris Antonel-lis’s intermediate class. They wrotepostcards home about cultural differ-ences they noticed living in the U.S.

Dear Mom,

I have been in the U.S. for 2 weeks. Here in Boston, we usually go to school

by a train called the T. It doesn’t have a time table, so it often arrives at the

station at a different time. In Japan, the train has a time table, so it arrives

on time. If a train arrives at a station a few minutes late,we begin to get

angry. Here, if a train is crowded, people wait for the next train. In Japan

people get on the train, even if there isn’t enough space for each person.

Another strange custom is this: Americans cross the road when the traf-

fic signal says “Don’t Walk,” if cars are not coming. In Japan if the traffic

signal says “Don’t Walk,” nobody crosses the road, even if cars are not com-

ing. I think American people aren’t always in a hurry. On the other hand in

Japan people always worry about time.

I’m leaning a lot about American customs. So how are you? Please write

back soon!

Love,

—Megumi

I want to tell yo

u about custo

ms that might se

em strange to yo

u. In

Korea, there is

n’t a bath an

d toilet in the

same place. Actually

, when

I first came to A

merica , I hat

ed the bathro

oms because A

merican

bathrooms were ver

y difficult to

clean up, bu

t these days

I like Amer-

ican bathroom

s.

In Korea when I m

eet an older p

erson, I have

to bow my head

,

but American people

shake hands

, and they sa

y “hello.” In

my coun-

try, if I meet old

er people, say

hello, and s

hake hands,

they would b

e

so angry. Korea an

d America are very

different. I

think maybe K

orea

and Japan’s greeti

ng rule is the

same.

Please write ba

ck soon,

—Eun Byul kim

Postcards Home | Some American customs are so strange to me . . .

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In Lithuania people us-

ually have their biggest

meal at 2 pm. They like

to eat soup every day and

drink a natural tea. People

don’t drink so much water like in the U.S.

In Boston I can see everybody with a bottle of water. Our sys-

tem of public transport is also different from in the U.S. Peo-

ple use a monthly pass, but you have to show it only to the con-

troller when she examines the pass, not every time you

commute. Many rules are focused on good conscience.

Please write back soon,

—Laima

Dear Kaoru,

I have been in the U.S. for just two

weeks. When American people live

in an apartment with someone, they

often share the apartment with a different gender. In

Japan if I share an apartment with a girl, I may marry

her in the near future.There is another strange custom. When we go to a restau-

rant or a hotel here, we must pay a 15 or 18% tip to the

waiter. I can’t get used to this. In Japan we don’t need

to pay a tip. I am learning a lot about American customs.Your close friend,—Koba

Dear Kelly,

I have been in the Boston for three months.

Here, if you want to rent a car, you have to

be 25 years old, so that you can have a dis-

count. For example: If you are under 25,

you pay $100 a day. If you are over 25 years old, you pay $50.

I’m 24 years old, so I don’t have any discount to rent a car.

When I took a taxi from the airport to Boston University,

I had to pay the taxi driver a 15% tip. Oh My God! It’s so

strange and expensive to take a taxi. Back home, we don’t pay any

tip to taxi drivers. I’m learning a lot about American customs and

making a lot of friends here. It’s different from in Taiwan. I

need you to send Taiwan’s air to me. Take care.

Your friend,

—JasonI have been in the US for eight months. American customs

are so strange for me. For instance, when you go to a

restaurant the portions of food are very big. In Venezuela

the portions of food are very small. When I go to a restau-

rant, I have to order an appetizer and still it is very big,

so you can image my face.Americans are very severe regarding parking zones. If you park your car in a res-

idence zone and you don’t have the sticker, you can’t stay more than two hours

because the police can tow your car away.

Americans treat their pets like a member of the family. Some of them even have

photos of their pets in their wallets. Don’t you think it is kind of cute? Even

though our customs are diferent, I am learning a lot about the American culture

and their customs.This is all for now. I hope you are doing great.

Take Care,—Ana


I t was late June of 2002 when Iarrived in Boston to learn Eng-lish as a second language. At

that time in order to catch the truthabout American culture I decided tolive with an American family. Theexperience was deeply rich. The

routines of the family helped me realize two main points.

First, the feeling of freedom is considered one of themost important possessions for Americans. It is reflected inhow they run their lives by themselves. There is nothingwrong with doing the laundry, vacuuming the carpet athome, or cutting the grass in your backyard, among othercommon things of the daily life. Whether you are a famousperson or not, it is totally normal. The man of the familywith whom I used to live, was a manager in a well-knowndepartment store, but he made the dinner every night at

home. In the Latin-American culture to do the chores isnearly always quite a stigma. For example, Latin people pre-fer to live with strangers and also with less privacy at homethan to do the chores by themselves.

Second, time is very valuable to Americans. The faststyle of life in this country could be reflected in good thingslike fast technology and questionable things like fast food.But when we talk in terms of spending time with your fam-ily, it differs considerably. In Latin countries the importanceof sharing time with the members of your family at least oneday a week is almost a religious obligation. In contrast, aregular American family spends time together just on sig-nificant days like holidays or birthdays.

Finally, I would tell someone who decided to learn a dif-ferent language that it would not be easy, but it is importantto try to become open minded. You have to accept there isnothing wrong with your own culture or the new one. Theyare just different. The goal is to catch the positive pointswhich can contribute to enriching yourself

The writer, from Paraguay, is in Chris Antonellis’s writing elective.

by Liliana FrutosObservations on Americans

W hen you are in aninternational schoolyou have to be pre-

pared to get in touch with othercultures that are different fromyours. In some cases, this culturalshock is so evident that you notice

it the same day of your arrival.

The first day that I arrived in Boston, I had an Americanroommate. I was so happy because I thought that I wouldlearn a lot of English. However, I was completely wrongbecause American people can be so subermged into theirown lives that in many cases, they don’t care about otherpeople’s lives. I tried to be kind to her, but she was alwaysbusy, so busy with her friends that she didn’t take advantageof meeting an international student.

Weeks later, I went to a party with my Korean friends. Thatday. I learned so much about their culture that now I under-

stand why they act like they do. For example, when babies areborn, they already are one year old. That means, that here inAmerica, Koreans are actually one year younger than Americans.

Later, I met a Japanese girl who is married to a Japaneseguy. All the time, she is making fun of him. For me all thesejokes were, on one hand, very funny, but on the other, verystrong. Later, she explained to me that in Japan it is not veryeducated to say only wonderful things about your husband.Instead, you must show their weakness all the time.

One week ago, I met a Korean boy who was living inRussia before coming here. We were talking about the kissesin different countries. In Russia, girls are used to kissing girl-friends on the mouth, and three kisses on the cheeks. In con-trast, Mexican girlfriends only kiss one time on the cheeks.For me, those Russian traditions are very strange. If I wereliving in Russia, I wouldn’t like to kiss in the Russian style!

In spite of all the differences, these experiences are help-ing to enrich my life. Stuyding here has not only meant study-ing the language very, very hard, but also gives me the oppor-tunity to share my culture and learn more about others.

The writer, from Mexico, is in Chris Antonellis’s writing elective.

by Laura García GutiérrezForeign Cultures

T he first time I came toBoston was three yearsago. I came here for a

small vacation and I really liked thecity. This is the second time I havecome here, but it is really differentfrom the first time because it is not

the same, living here for two months and staying only a week.

Boston is a beautiful city, but it has strange things thatyou have to get used to. One of them is when you cross thestreet you have to be very careful because no one respectsthe stop signals, so if you don’t take care of yourself youmight get hit by a car. Another strange thing is that here youcan’t have a parking space. I think it is very hard to find afree place to park your car.

When you want to find an address, it is almost impossi-ble. All the street addresses are very difficult to find. Forexample, if you are looking for #312 Poland Street, you haveto be prepared to look at least 30 minutes, because some-times the street has a name and if you continue like four orfive meters, the name of the street will change or maybe thenumbers of the street are all mixed up.

Of course, I have to talk about the mall culture. Believeme, when you go to a mall here in Boston, I feel like I haveto buy something. In Mexico sometimes you go to a mallonly to take a walk, but here I feel like I can not go to onewithout buying something.

I think the most important thing that Boston has is thevariety of colleges. Three weeks ago, I went on a city tour andwas really impressed to see all the colleges. You can find uni-versities like MIT or B.U., or you can find the DunkinDonuts college.

The writer, from Mexico, is in Chris Antonellis’s writing elective.

by Jacqueline SanchezStrangeness of Boston


C ulture is ideas, beliefs, andcustoms that are sharedand accepted by people in

a society. Customs could change,but don’t change over night. A soci-ety may have a different culturefrom other societies. Many fac-tors—location, environment, and

education—influence and change these societies so, forexample, there may differences in the ways to be polite, to bein relationships, and also to interact with people in society.

Since I arrived in Boston, I have seen many cultural dif-ferences from many people from other countries. For exam-ple, they have shown different ways to be polite. If Taiwanesepeople were invited to a dinner party, they would leave a lit-tle food on their dishes to show respect to the host or cooks.On the other hand, Americans would finish the food, nomatter how terrible it was, and say how much they liked it.When Japanese people give a present to someone, they maysay that the present is not so good. “Please do not expectthis to be very good,” even though the truth is that the pres-

ent is so expensive and was the best one that they could find.On the other hand, Americans may say this is the best onethat they found, or they had used the same product and itwas excellent, so they want to give it to you.

Latin Americans stay very close to each other when theyare talking, and they kiss each other on the cheek to say helloand goodbye, but Asian people stay farther from each otherwhen they talk. Latin American and European students learnEnglish by speaking. They do not mind if they make a mis-take when they speak, so they can improve their speakingand reading very fast. On the other hand, Asian studentslearn English by grammar books and vocabulary becausethey do not want to make a mistake when they speak. How-ever, although they may get higher scores on grammar teststhan Latin American and European students, when theyspeak, they make such mistakes and their pronunciation andaccents are sometime difficult to understand.

Even though people act differently in different cultures,I believe that we all have the same goal. We want to be politeto other people in society and we want to be successful. Theonly thing that separates our own culture from others is theway we see the world, so we just have different ways to getto the same goal.

The writer, from Thailand, is in Chris Antonellis’s writing elective.

by Apisit KantinanObservations on Being Polite


I used to like to see a movie ata theater or watch it in myroom when I was in Japan. I

love movies, so the first thing I didon my first weekend in the U.S.was go to a movie. I was very sur-prised when I went to the theater,

because everybody laughed loudly when a funny thing hap-pened on the screen. In Japan, we have to keep quiet duringa movie even if something funny occurs on the screen. Iprefer the American style to the Japanese style because wecan enjoy the movie more by expressing our feelings openly.Japanese dislike showing their thoughts to others.

The biggest difference between my country and America,however, is that the Japanese try to hide their thoughts andAmericans positively try to show them in every aspect. Japan-ese sometimes talk to each other without looking into eachother’s eyes because they do not want their thoughts to be read.

by Tamon TanakaShowing our Feelings

T raveling to a foreigncountry is very normalnowadays. People take

an airplane and in few hours arrivein a different country, far awayfrom their home and culture.That’s the reason why they don’thave time to prepare themselves

for being away from their home and are very impressed bythe different culture they meet.

When I flew to Germany for my studies when I was 18,I was very unhappy living away from my country, Greece.In the first year there it was very difficult for me to accept anydifferent way of life than my own. After 8 years living inMunich, I got used to the differences and now feel very com-fortable traveling to other countries.

Eight weeks ago I came to Boston, and it was the firsttime in my life that I came to the United States. It has alwaysbeen my dream to come here. I think that the people hereare very polite and they helped me a lot when I needed some-thing. A lot of foreign people live in America, and that’s whyeven when someone comes for the first time, he doesn’t feellike a foreigner.

People in Greece are very open to each other. We canalways see if the other person is happy or not because we arenot afraid to show our feelings. American people are dif-ferent because it’s very difficult for me to understand what

they feel or believe. They keep their feelings to themselves,and usually it takes a lot of time to get closer to them, or tomake a friend.

Another difference between the two cultures is the waywe say hello when we meet each other. In this situation weare used to to kissing each other on each cheek. When I firstdid this to someone here in America, the person was very sur-prised and, of course, I never did it again. Now when I go backto my country my parents say that I am getting more “cold.”Maybe they are right, but I don’t know if it’s true or not. I justknow that it’s the only way to survive away from home.

Every time I go to a restaurant or somewhere else todrink or eat, the same thing always happens. After we fin-ish eating the waiter comes to our table and asks us if weneed something else, a coffee or a desert. Till now everythingis very normal to me and all Greek people. But then, afterhe brings us what we ordered, he also brings us the bill with-out our asking for it. If this happened in Greece, the cus-tomers would be very upset for this inpolite move. Theywould take this as a sign to go.

Different cultures and different ways of life can make aperson in a foreign country feel uncomfortable. Most of us arevery ethnocentric, believing that our county and culture is thebest of all the others. I believe that it’s very nice to love yourhome, even its disadvantages, because nobody and nothing isperfect. However, I don’t agree with the idea that people arenot in the position of being able to accept something else, dif-ferent from their own. Traveling and living away from homegives us the opportunity to collect the best characteristics fromall countries and cultures we meet, making us better people.

The writer, from Greece, is in Chris Antonellis’s writing elective.

by Alexandros NinosCultural Differences

T here are a lot of culturaldifferences between theAmerican and Ecuado-

rian cultures, but I think that thereare a lot of similarities too.

The first thing I want to com-pare is the food. Here there are alot of canned vegetables, soups

and other things like that. In Ecuador it is very commonthat you prepare all the meals at home. You go the marketto get vegetables, chicken, steak, etc, and you prepare themeals with that. I think people have less time to cook hereand for that reason the precooked meals are more popu-lar than in my country.

Another thing is the bus. In my country when I get on thebus I say “good morning” or something like that, but herenobody speaks to the driver. You only put your money in themachine and no more. Only one thing more about buses.In my city we have a lot of buses in the same route, and theypass every 5 minutes. Here I waited for 15 minutes before Icould get the T and come to CELOP this morning.

by Carmen VacaAn Ecuadorian Perspective


S ince I arrived in U.S, Ihave had many experi-ences in this country.

Even though I have been herefor 6 weeks, living in the U.S isstill new for me. It is my firstexperience living abroad andhaving independence without

my parent’s help.

First, I feel very strange about wearing shoes in thehouse. In Korea, I always take off my shoes when I go inside.But here, I felt embarrassed about wearing shoes when Istarted to live in my dorm, though I feel much better now.

Second, everything is bigger here than that in Korea. Afew days after arriving, I ate a hamburger in a fast food restau-rant. I was surprised by the size of it. I thought in my coun-try this hamburger would be impossible to sell at the sameprice. There are also a lot of brands of the same productwhen I go to the supermarket. The variety seems to be enor-mous, because there are a lot of races in the U.S, people whohave different tastes, hobbies, characteristics, appearances.

Obviously, staying for 6 weeks in America is a fresh expe-rience and also an embarrassing one for me. However, manythings I’ve experienced in six weeks will be helpful for mewhile I am living in America. I will try to accept and under-stand these differences. I’m going to live well, not as a for-eigner but as a good student in college who knows muchabout American culture.

The writer, from Korea, is in Chris Antonellis’s writing elective.

by Kevin ParkObservations on the U.S.

On the other hand, Americans look directly into the eyesof their partners while talking and saying what they think.Although the conversation in American style sometimesembarrasses me, I would like to overcome this and have more

of that ability to say what I think like Americans do.

The writer, from Japan, is in Chris Antonellis’s writing elective.


In my country when I get onthe bus I say “good morning”or something like that, but herenobody speaks to the driver .You only put your money in themachine and no more.


There are also differences in the way you to say hello toyour friends. In Ecuador when you have a good friend, you cankiss him on the cheek to say “hello” or “bye.” Here you onlyshake hands and no more. I think people here avoid showingtheir feelings, or they are less emotional than in Ecuador.

The way to celebrate holidays is different too. In my cityyou have a lot of things to do on Independence Day. Youcan go to many fairs. There are shows at the parks and musi-cal events. People prepare a lot of typical food and sell it,and sometimes the neighborhood prepares competitions forfootball, volleyball, and to choose a queen of the neighbor-hood. Maybe I didn’t see all the things prepared for the July4th here, and for that reason I think there are not so manythings to celebrate like in my city, Guayaquil.

The weather is different too. Guayaquil is a city that isat sea level, and the weather there is almost the same all year.You have warm days and fresh nights. There are only twoseasons: between January and April the weather is a littlemore hot and it rains. Between May and December it is a

little more fresh. I have heard that here the winter is verycold and the temperature can reach -12 degrees centigrade.I’ve never been in a place as cold as that.

On the other hand, there are similarities too. The mostpopular pets in Ecuador and here are dogs. I’ve seen a lot ofpeople walking with their dogs on the streets like inGuayaquil. I think we have similar malls too. In my citypeople have built some malls recently and they are very sim-ilar to those that are here.

We enjoy doing the same activities. It is common thatfriends get together to walk, eat a slice of pizza, or see amovie eating popcorn. When the weather is warm, inEcuador as here, we enjoy going to the beach, riding a bicy-cle or walking around the parks.

I think I’ll learn a lot here and can show my culture toAmerican people, because all of us can learn from each other.

The writer, from Ecuador, is in Chris Antonellis’s writing elective.

I ’ve admired American culture and freedom since I wasyoung, although many people, notably Europeans, havemade negative judgments about the U.S. There are bad

and good things everywhere. So, I prefered to find out aboutthe U.S. for myself.

The events of Sept. 11, 2001, shocked the world andbrought me to tears thinking about the victims (especially thosein the hijacked airplanes and in the World Trade Center build-ings waiting for their death), their families and the U.S. citizens.Nothing is worse than the threat of terrorisst attack.

In order to work in developing countries, I’d like to havea Master’s degree in Public Health. Towards that objective,I came to Boston to prepare for the TOEFL and especiallyto discover the U.S. Before arriving in Boston, I felt so stu-pid and felt that except for Medicine, I knew nothing at all.CELOP at BU is wonderful for me because of the profes-sionalism and conscienciousness of the teachers. CELOPstaff offer many resources that are available to improve myEnglish (Movie Club, Simpsons Club, Short Story Club,Conversation Club, Computer Lab, and many other activ-ities outside of CELOP), but also many subjects through

reading, writing and listening, like anthropology, astron-omy, archeology, biology, history, sociology, arts and sci-ences, geology, medicine, American culture, and so on. It’sreally an INTERESTING EXPERIENCE for me.

Academic programs in the U.S. are well known in theworld. Moreover, I feel at ease in the U.S. There are no hardfeelings, and the people are so natural, direct, amusing, andpleasant. Furthermore, they are so helpful and lively. WhenI was lost and looked at my map, someone came to me tohelp without my request. On campus, my housematesstopped by for wishes on Chinese New Year. They gave mea hand when I didn’t know how to live up to American life.

Also, they are so athletic at all ages and like rowing, rid-ing, jogging, skating, walking, and so on. They are doingsports in families such as parents running while pushing theirbaby carriage, etc. I think they begin sports early in themorning, probably at 5.30 a.m., because I see them doingsports when I wake up usually at 6:00 for my routine gymjazz. The system of preventing illness is very strong: NOSMOKING in enclosed areas (hospitals, restaurants, officesetc.) except on the street, mosquito nets, cheap health anddental care insurance, drinkable tap water, public restroomswith non-corrosive antibacterial soft soap and paper hand-towels. Ambulances, police and fire engines are available inareas crowed with people during festivals. On campus, there

by Marie-Christine NguyenThe U.S.—An Active Place



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Laura Garcia, from Mexio, gets in on the pizzagrab at one of the two CELOP Pizza Parties thissummer.

are a lot of choices of food (vegetarian, fiber, fast food, rawvegetables with proteins, and foreign cuisines like Mexi-can, Indian, Chinese, Italian, Thai, Spanish, Middle East-ern, etc.), many kinds of beverages and desserts. All are richin Ca, Mg, Vit C, E, D, B, and so on and served galore.

Some U.S. citizens, notably Asian Americans, told methey don’t need to travel or visit their hometown in Asiabecause they have all universal things in the U.S. Besides,they enjoy equality and freedom in the U.S. As for religion,it’s astonishing and stirring to see many young Americanswho are believers and church-goers. They organize musicand masses. They accompany you from the threshod of thedoor to the seat. All of them (and so many others that Icannot tell you enough) are unbelievably AMAZING forme because those are my wishes for a long time to have oneday in Europe, notably in my country, Switzerland.

In summary, it is said, “Don’t judge a book by its cover.”I think generalizing could be a big mistake. As Shakespearesaid, “Nothing is good, nothing is bad. It’s our thought thatgives us happiness or evil.” It’s right to realize that the U.S.citizens are proud to be Americans.

The writer, from Switzerland, is in Marsha Dean’s writing elective.

Orientation

Phone WorkshopE-mail Account WorkshopComputer Lab OrientationBanking WorkshopTransportation and Shopping WorkshopSafety WorkshopGeddes Language Lab Tour

Clubs,Weekly Events

Short Story ClubSitcom ClubFree Friday MoviesOffbeat Movie SeriesConversation ExchangeAcademic Workshops

Shows (discount tickets)

Blue Man GroupOmni Theater, Museum of Science

BU Summerfest Trips

Free Ice Cream at the GSU plazaRed Sox GamesNewport, Rhode IslandNew York CityBoston Harbor Cruise & Whale WatchFreeport, Maine—outlet shoppingMartha’s VineyardTanglewood—Boston Symphony Orchestra Six Flags New EnglandStomp!

Trips & Tours

Freedom Train Walking TourJillian’s Billiards PartyMuseum of Fine ArtsOld Town Trolley Bus Tour

Arts & Crafts

Make Your Own Jewelry Workshop

Occasional Events

Get to Know Your ClassmatesPizza Parties

SAMPLE CELOP ACTIVITIES

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Summer 2003 MLLMLL5050

The MLL Web site | www.bu.edu/celop/mll

Use it after leaving CELOP for access to English language and research resources as well as future ESL con-tent programs produced by the MLL.

NewsNews Summer 2003 5151

Major News Events of the SemesterIn the World . . . • Scandal erupts over U.S. and British intelligence, drawing into question whether or not

Iraq actually tried to purchase uranium from Niger—a justification for the war. • Demonstrations erupt in Hong Kong as residents demand reform. Beijing sends officials to

negotiate, resulting in changes to a new internal security law.• Vancouver wins the bid to host the 2010 Winter Olympic Games.• The Women’s World Cup of Soccer is relocated from China to the U.S. because of SARS-

related concerns.• The U.N. sanctions a peacekeeping mission to Liberia, which includes U.S. troops.• American cyclist Lance Armstrong wins the Tour de France for a record-tying fifth time.

• Compay Segundo, the lead singer for the Buena Vista Social Club, dies at the age of 95.

• Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi begins a term as President of the European Union

with controversial comments about Germany.In the U.S. . . .

• The Presidential election season opens as nine politicians declare their intent to run for the

Democratic Party nomination; meanwhile, Republicans raise record amounts to re-elect Bush.

• Whitehouse spokesman Ari Fleischer and EPA Administrator Christie Whitman resign.

• U.S. Senator Strom Thurmond from South Carolina dies at the age of 100—the longest-

serving Senator in the history of the U.S.• The entertainment industry mourns the passing of many greats in music, television and

film: comedian Bob Hope at 100, jazz singer Barry White, news anchor David Brinkley,

comedian Buddy Hackett, actor Gregory Peck, and actress Katherine Hepburn. • Movies playing in theaters: Terminator 3, The Hulk, The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen,

Charlie’s Angels: Full Throttle, 28 Days Later, Pirates of the Caribbean, The Italian Job,

Finding Nemo.• Popular music: Seven Nation Army by The White Stripes, 21 Questions by 50 Cent, Send the

Pain Below by Chevelle, Miss Independent by Kelly Clarkson.In Boston . . . • Key sections of the “Big Dig” Central Artery Project—the largest and most expensive public

works project in U.S. history—open, including the Leonard P. Zakim Bridge, the southbound

tunnel of I-93, and the Logan Airport extension to the Mass. Pike/I-90.• University of Massachusetts Chancellor William Bulger testifies before the U.S. Senate

about the whereabouts his mobster brother “Whitey” Bulger.• 600,000 people turn out to watch Boston’s Independence Day fireworks, the largest crowd

to attend since 1976. It took 200 workers two days to clean up the mess.At Boston University and CELOP . . .• Boston University appoints Daniel S. Goldin, former NASA Administrator acclaimed for

his “Faster, Better, Cheaper” management style, to serve as its president.• Construction continues on the new sports facilities across the street from CELOP.

• Academic Advisor Nancy Cho leaves. Judy Di Leo takes over as Interim Advisor.

• CELOP acquires new headsets for the computer lab, allowing better recording abilities.

Summer 2003 Class TClass Tripsrips5252

C akes! Women cannotstop eating them theirwhole life. Cakes make

women feel happy and con-tented. My country has a com-mon saying, “Women haveanother stomach in which top u tdessert.”That istrue forme. I can

eat dessert when I feel full, so you canknow how excited I was when my dearteacher took us to a special bakery.

We took the Green Line, changedto the Red Line, and took a bus to gothere. During this time, my classmatesand I asked some things about the bak-ery. Is the bakery building big or small?Is this store special? What kind of cakescan I eat? I told myself,” I cannot wait!”

Actually, the bakery is very big.There are warehouses, a big kitchen,and a beautiful shop in the front. Thebakery’s owner took us on a tour of hisbakery. He was very interesting andenthusiastic about his bakery. Weasked him many questions, such as“How long do you need to make acake?” or “What kind of things do youusually put in a cake?” He was patientand gave us detailed answers. I knowhe loves his job.

A good company is not just big.Here I could see many workers whodid their work seriously. This baker’sprofessional knowledge could helpthem have a unique work experiencecompared with other bakeries.

Finally, we took many sample pas-tries home with us because the owneris generous. The little cakes were socute and exquisite. Then I shared them

with my family. Everyone said these cakes were delicious. Ithink this bakery is a successful company. This visit was aspecial experience in my life!

The writer, from Taiwan, R.O.C, is in Doreen Miller’s class.

by Hsiao-Ju Lee (Emma)The Best Bakery in Boston

Masato Koizumi and Eyup Tavukcuoglu drooling over a Konditor Meistermasterpiece.

Konditor Meister

32 Wood Road Braintree, MA 02184Telephone: 781-849-1970Web: www.konditormeister.com

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K onditor Meister,located in Braintree,Massachusetts, is a

wonderful bakery. KonditorMeister makes many kinds ofwedding cakes and Europeanpastries. The owner won firstprize in a wedding cake compe-tition last year, so the variousflavors of the cakes are defi-nitely very good. Moreover, Ican get to the bakery easily bysubway. I got off at Quincy

Center Station on the Red Line. Then, I took bus number238 and got off at Wood Road. It took one and a half hoursto get from CELOP to there. However, I did not feel it wasa long trip to go to the bakery.

First of all, as I got there, it smelled good, it was likecakes baking and I saw beautiful wedding cakes and pastries.I was so excited about the good aromas and wonderful cakes.

Then, I saw the video where NBC Today Show broad-cast Konditor Meister as having been voted American’s bestfor its wedding cake. After watching the video, I lookedaround the shop. I saw many beautiful and high quality dec-

orations made from chocolate or sugar: leaves and manykinds of flowers. These decorations were like the real thing.Making those decorations looks easy because the workersmake them rhythmically, but they practice making decora-tions everyday. Therefore, it would not be easy for me tomake them.

I looked around all places in the bakery. Each place wasinteresting for me. For example, there was a big and verycold refrigerator, a huge storage room in which there weremany ribbons for wrapping and toys for decorating, and abaking room where they were making many sponge cakes.

Moreover, I was also excited that I could try some cakes.I ate chocolate truffles and brownies. The brownies werevery delicious, the best I had ever eaten.

In the shop, I saw wonderful wedding cakes. Every wed-ding cake is decorated so nicely and beautifully that I wantto keep those wedding cakes even if those cakes taste verygood. At the end of tour, I got free pastries, and I took alarge sampling.

In conclusion, I would recommend this bakery becausein the U.S. I had never seen a shop which sells such verydelicious and good-looking cakes. Although the cakes arenot cheap, everyone buys and orders them. Their taste isworth the price. In the future, I want to order my weddingcake from Konditor Meister when I marry. I guarantee thateveryone would enjoy the bakery not only to taste cakes, butalso to see the wedding cakes. The cakes the bakery makesare delicious works of art.

The writer, from Japan, is in Doreen Miller’s class.

by Masato KoizumiKonditor Meister

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I have been in Boston for five months. I don’t like win-tertime, but I like summertime a lot. I miss the weatherof my country. For this reason, I have been looking on

the internet and in catalogs for some beaches near Boston

A teacher told me that Cape Cod is a good place to visit.I found a beach in Falmouth (it’ s a town on Cape Cod), soI went with my boyfriend and my sister. The name of thisbeach is Old Silver Beach. This beach has transparent waterand the sand is white, so the beach is very beautiful. WhenI went there the beach was full, so I think that this beach is

very famous. I had a good time, and I would like to go othertimes.

I recommend this beach because it is quiet and you canrelax and get some sun. The beach is not very far, only oneand a half hours by car, but I don’t know if it is possible to goby bus. You should go to have a different and fun day.

The writer, from Venezuela, is in Barbara Bliss’s class.

by Minerva Di GiacomoOld Silver Beach, Cape Cod


M y alarm clock, which had been set for 6:00a.m.,rang on time. I stirred and was flailing my armto shut it off. I had to wake up early that morning

because my class would have a trip to Provincetown, or “P-town,” at the tip of Cape Cod. P-town is very popular fortourists in the summer because it has such long beaches,which don’t seem to have an end. It is known to have also alot of arts and crafts fairs and galleries. I was still so tiredfrom the night before because I was the host for a party andcooked a lot of food for my friends. I decided to sleep onemore hour. Oh my God, by the time I got up, it was 8:00a.m.,so I did not have enough time to ponder what I should bringon my class trip. I just ran to take a shower and change myclothes as fast as I could.

When I went out, it was 8:05a.m. I ran to the B Line Tstation at St. Paul. I had to hurry because I had to meet myteacher, Joanne Fox, and my classmates at 8:30a.m. at theboat station near the Aquarium, and the boat was going toleave Boston at 9:00a.m. I felt a bit nervous. I thought Iwould get lost because I had never been to the Aquariumbefore. On the way, I had to change to the Blue Line. Ah! Iran into one of my classmates, Min. She said she was latebecause she lived far away from there. Finally, Min and Iarrived there a bit late, so everybody was waiting for us. Uh. . . Hold on! “Where is Joanne?” Ha ha! The person whomanaged that trip had not showed up yet. Rain was still driz-zling from the early morning. Joanne arrived at 8:45a.m.with her children, Megan and Theo.

The boat left Boston on time and nobody was leftbehind. Sun, our classmate in the first six weeks, came tojoin us on this trip. I think she must have been a tour guidebefore, or she must like to travel a lot because she arrangeda lot of snacks and games for us for the trip to P-town. Shewas a master of games, so I had to buy her and Min ice-creams because I was the loser. Hmm . . . it must have beena kind of trick. She brought the games and she won.

By 10:45a.m., we had arrived in P-town. We were walk-ing on a road near the beach. There were a lot of arts andcrafts shops, galleries and restaurants on both sides of theroad. Many tourists looked so relieved because they werewalking, shopping, talking and laughing while walking downthe street. By the time that we went to have lunch on thebeach, the sun was shining. After lunch we took a walk again,we tried to walk to see a beach on the other side of P-town,by taking a direction that our map leader, Yuji, told us. Wehad been walking for an hour when we arrived at “ForestBeach,” a beach surrounded by a lot of trees. It was verybeautiful but we didn’t make it to the other side because wehad only half an hour before going back to Boston. We hadto hurry back to the boat. Even though we could not see theother side of P-town and we felt a little disappointed, wehad a good time.

4:00p.m., time to leave P-town. I felt that I had found alot of things there. They were the things that we may notsee or find when we are in the classroom. There was friend-ship, team work, and laughing. It was such a wonderful expe-rience that it is still in my mind. The memory now is likethe smell of coffee sticking on the tip of my nose.

The writer, from Thailand, is in Chris Antonellis’s writing elective.

by Apisit KantinanClass Trip to Provincetown

I like many kinds of sports. I espe-cially like baseball. My friend Eyun-Suk and I went to Fenway Park for

Byung-Hyun Kim’s game. Because ofKim’s last starter, this game was impor-tant. His throwing and wind-up style wasunique. I love Byung-Hyun Kim, who istwenty-four years old, born January 19,1979, in Gwangju, South Korea.

After class on Friday, June 27, we went to Fenway Park.Our group was eight Korean and four Japanese students.When we went near Fenway Park, there were many people

and a street band around the Park. Andwhen we entered into Fenway, we weresurprised at many people and the hugestadium. As soon as the game wasstarted at 7:00, we shouted loudlytogether. During their cruise to a 25-8victory over Florida, we were enjoyingthe Boston Red sox’s play.

The writer, from Korea, is in Barbara Bliss’s class.

by Jae-Hong KimByung-Hyun Kim at Fenway

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MARSHA DEAN’S CLASS AT ROCKPORT BEACH

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Ismail Emen (at right), one of CELOP’s best known and faithful alumni, flewin from Turkey for a visit to Boston and accompanied Marsha’s class toRockport.

Chris Antonellis’s Class: Megumi Hisaoka, Eun Byul Kim, Risa Kohmoto, Suriya Kullavanich, Ana SalvatierraRotondaro, Suwit Srisaensuchat, Laimute Stankunaite, Apirak Yosaeng, Masayoshi Kobayashi, Wen-Chieh Tsai,Tsung-Hsin Yeh.

Jamie Beaton and Jeff DiIuglio’s Class: Georges Aslan Zakar, Simon Boulas, Su Kyung Kim, Sun Mi Park, RonnaRisquez Sanchez, Norelys Santana Faride, Ina Yoshino, Daniela Stockmeier, Pei-Shih Chang, Marco Negroni, Hsuh-Ying Chen, Marcia De La Torre Espinosa De Los Monteros, Li-Chun Lee.

CLASS PICTURES CORE CLASSES

Barbara Bliss and Doreen Miller’s Class: Shuhei Fujita, Ricardo Maldonado Cantu, Masami Daido, Minerva Di Gia-como, Young Eun Jang, Sae Yeon Kang, Jae Hong Kim, Masato Koizumi, Hsiao-Ju Lee, Kyo-Sun Lee, Yumiko Naito,Lucidia Segebre Acevedo, Eyup Tavukcuoglu, Khalid Al-Ghamdi.

Bob Maguire’s Class: Hsing-Ling Tsai, Hui-Chuan Chiang, Shugo Akita, Dhiradej Bunnag, Suracha Surawatsathian,Seung Yeon Lee, I-Hsiu Lin, Kazuhiro Yanagawa, Yong Oh, Ying-Tung Liao, Macid Melekoglu, Ismail Marulcu.

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Jill Brand and Jacquie LoConte’s Class: Huseyin Aksan, Jee Yeon Park, Veli Chabebe, Hamed Cisse, Liliana BeatrizFrutos, Chin-Yung Ho, Hyun Chul Kim, Kowan Kim, Miyabi Kitada, Armando Montemayor Santos, Ramiro Mon-temayor Santos, Kazuyuki Okada, Chiemi Shirakawa, Tamon Tanaka.

Ron Clark’s Class: Juan Alasia Olivo, Jin San Chung, Martina Fragine, Patricia Gaia, Naoto Koga, Yuta Okamura,Sung Woong Park, Jung-Gook Seo, Jung Son, Pei-Ching Wu, Xiaochun Yang, Yong-Ku Yoon, Chen-Hung Chiang, Ras-sul Idrissov.


Pamela Couch’s Class: Siu Man Chiu, Mizuho Miyaguni, Chin Mu, Nora Orozco Estrada, Rachaneewong Wongwan-tanee, Rika Hata, Yuichi Washida, Kaori Shibata, Pocharawan Chimcherd, Mitsuhiko Ida, Mei Yee Chan, Jae Shin,Eun Lee, Eun Jeong Lee.

Betty D’Angelo’s Class: Carolina Beltran Giron, Sang-Woo Goh, Hiroshi Kuroda, Caroline Leder, Sun Min Lee, SunYup Lee, Michela Porta, Takeshi Toyokawa, Hsin-Hung Yao, Alberto Barros.


Marsha Dean’s Class: Mohamed Aal Ali, Miwa Akao, Pin-Chin Chou, Jae Ryoung Jung, Emi Kino, Reo Kodera,Shinichi Narusako, Marie-Christine Nguyen, Yong Won Song, Betul Umit, Keun Chang Yang, Min Seok Jeong, Merid-ian Ramadir, Chan-Gyu Hong.

Renee Delatizky and Joanne Fox’s Class: Oumou Cisse, Claudia Di Giacomo, Laura Garcia Gutierrez, Min WookJeon, Apisit Kantinan, Yujiro Maeda, Alexandros Ninos, Jong Min Park, Sun Ae Park, Leona Stollinova, SatomiTanaka, Ting-Ting Lin, Carlos Martinez Franky.


Margo Downey’s Class: Jae-Hun Jung, Pierre Devlaminck, Maria Ramon Canet, Jeung Yon Lee, Yung-Tai Tseng,Hung-Hsin Chen, David Nunez, Kuan-Ting Shih.

Michael Feldman’s Class: Andre Castaneda, Siwei Chen, Chih-Wen Chou, Luis Gonzalez, Rika Honda, Koji Katsube,Andres Rozanski, Sotaro Takeda, Kunihiro Taniguchi, Shino Uenuma, Wen-Cheng Wang.


Shelly Fishman’s Class: Shuichiro Adachi, David Bavelsky, Sirirat Cheongvivatkit, Koh Hinokawa, I-San Ko, Yi-Ching Lai, Yugo Nakamura, Nagako Oe, Armando Rimoldi, Pasquale Stricagnolo, Hirofumi Yamamoto.

Cynthia Flamm’s Class: Ali Alfaifi, Francisco Jose Benegas Lynch, Hsin Tien Chou, Yuan-Yi Fang, TakahikoHirashima, Tetsuhiro Horiuchi, Taro Kaiho, Fumiaki Kashimori, Nozomi Nakano, Aliya Rakhimbekova, Kanita Sap-phaisal, Yoshiro Watanabe.


Doug Kohn and Dorothy Lynde’s Class: Wezo Alexi Garcia, Jittima Tangnatthanakrit, Hideki Nitta, JacquelineSanchez Aldave, Pimara Chewakate, Carlo Genovese, Nuttaporn Chaijaroenthaweekit, Byung-Soo Choi, SangchulPark, Won-Goo Lee, Nazario Meza Echevarria.

John Kopec’s Class: Miguel Mele, Nicola Cipiciani, Max Goldsmid Pendler, Yuying Li, Luisa Fernanda Silva, FumikoOnishi, Ayako Morikawa, Hong-Gi Kim, Byeong Il Min, Yuko Linuma, Rieko Takahashi.


George Krikorian’s Class: Gabriel Mondlak, Minoru Osawa, Mutita Karoon, Burcu Yilmaz, Carmen Vaca Ruiz,Anchana Boondarigpornpunt, Isaac Michan, Alexandre Reboud, Praonnut Udompanit, Carolina Salinas.

Doug Kohn and Margo Miller’s Class: Jee Seon Han, Shih-Min Hsu, Tapanee Jantarapakdee, Eun Seok Lee, YoungHee Lee, Rika Oba, Phanuphan Phasuksan, Da Eun Rho, Yoshimi Shishido, Shogo Hatanaka.


Patricia Peknik’s Class: Yi-Chun Hung, Chizuko Ichikawa, Youngjoon Kwon, Wen-Mei Lo, Satoshi Matsuo, ShigeruMorikawa, Luis Perez Souts, Benjamin Prouvost, Keita Sasaki, Marianna Vazzana, Shinichiro Yamamiya, MasakiYasui.

Joe Pettigrew’s Class: Hong Liu, Sinyoung Chun, Pubenza Peters, Aya Ishiguro, Su-Fang Yeh, Hong Liu, TakahiroKoyama, Fernando Carriazo-Osorio, Ana Gutierrez Colina, Ju Young Park, Tatsuya Saruwatari, Pei-Yi Mou, Hsiang-Ju Lee, Jeong Lee, Serena Meucci.


Lynn Bonesteel and Barbara Zimmerman’s Class (with Don Zimmerman): Betul Umit, In Hee Kwon, Min-Soo Seul, PabloOlavarrieta, Jose Rivero, Shigeru Kaneda, Maria Reyes, Yasuko Nishimura, Kei Kato, Matthias Staedeli, Takahiro Tsuma-gari, Maria Serrano Blazquez, Miho Kimura, Alessandro Cantelmo, Kazuko Fukamatsu, Akiko Sadahiro, Youn Hong.

Susan Vik’s Class: Saiko Kikuchi, Hye Kim, Pei-Hsun Chang, Jung Baik, Shigenobu Matsuzawa, Hae-Seung Lee, JaeYong Yoo, Bo Young Chang, Hyun Tai Park, Eri Washida, Chakkapan Sanitwong, Natalia Silva, Sofia Tawil Dayan.


Amelia Onorato’s class: Suwit Srisaensuchat, Sang Youn Lee, Longinos Tsourous, Ardak Cherdabayev, Fatih Celik,Min Jeong Kwak, Eun-Young Oh, Chae Eun Lee, Ahmad Al Frayan, Antonio Gioacchini.

James Kaplan’s Class: Dong Youn Chang, Ya Hui Lin, Aura Mejia, Maria Guitart, Yen-Ting Chen, Yi-Lin Chiang, Fer-nanda Guimaraes, Andre Martinez-Fritscher, Arachaporn Chongwattana, Chiung-Pei Wang, Koji Nomura, MariHigashino.


Linda Coyne’s Class: Pierre Marie, Sirikanya Thammarungruang, Min-Yi Tsai, Cristian Antonelli, Hyun Ju Lee,Young Chae Lee, Hyo Jin Kim, Myoung Hwa Lee, Ying-Chieh Su, Jesus Alberto Rodriguezgomez, Luigi Mula, Stefa-nia Rolandi, Raphael Nocken, Chiaying Chiang, Hao-Yi Wang.

Pam Steeves’ Class: Janis Altagracia Santaella Delvillar, Shu Hsing Kwan, Yeon Mi Shin, Bo Mi Lee, Young Ji Lee,Hyeon Young Park, Li-Wei Lee, Ting-Chieh Su, Jacobo Jafif Cohen, Marco Di Benedetto, Maria Eugenia Gaia, RenataGaia, Hyungmi Kim.


Gregg Singer’s Class: Miki Morita, Yoko Tsuda, Matthieu Zinger, Teppei Nagano, Szu-Yu Huang, Ritsuko Yoneda, An-Jui Lee, Masaki Nishimori, Kanjiro Onishi, Maria Teresa Lopez Garcia, Pratana Chinwongvatana, Seuk-Ho Kim,David Saba, Nattakul Ongmorakot, Ritsuko Kiyota.

Lori Lubeski’s Class: Rodrigo Urcuyo, Li-Fang Chang, Junichi Mori, Yoko Chiba, Takuro Matsui, Motoko Kawachi,Piyatida Hoisungwan, Xiaochun Qiu, Haruhiko Shimizu, Jae-Han Moon, Miro Chung, Ming-Yi Chien, Rene OsorioRivas, Mai Usui.


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Megumi sampling a Thai speciality. Chris Antonellis

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T OEFL is not the only way to get into an American uni-versity. Most international students have to take aTOEFL and report the score to the admission office.

Many international students are attached to TOEFL scores toomuch. A score is an important requisite. However, internationalstudents should not spend a lot of time studying for TOEFL,because there are more important requirements. The scoreshouldn’t be the main requirement for international studentsto enter a universit for two reasons.

First, just preparing for the TOEFL is not efficient. Manyinternational students spend a lot of time preparing for the test.Some students spend sixteen to eighteen hours per day onTOEFL practice when their test is near. After they get a goodscore on TOEFL, they apply to many universities. When theyget admission, they feel it’s over, but it’s not over yet. I saw alot of students who got really good scores on TOEFL, but theycan’t speak, listen, and write English well in class. Sometimessomeone who didn’t get a good score can speak and understandEnglish better than others.

Second, the TOEFL score is just one part of the require-ments. Most Asian students prepare, but they don’t know whatpercent the TOEFL score has on applications. According to aresearch web site, www.bebeyond.com/features/Perspective.html, a TOEFL score isonly worth 8.3% of the total application. Most students don’tknow that, and spend 80% percent of their time on preparingfor the TOEFL. There are much more important requirementson an application, such as GPA, school work, experiences, anda student’s academic competency. Most international studentsshould focus on the rest of the 91.7% of the applications.

Opponents of this regard the matter of TOEFL as the bestmeasure to prove students’ academic abilities. This issue seemsto be a really reasonable statement. However, most universitiesdon’t teach the TOEFL, and students never study the TOEFLafter getting into a university. TOEFL is just a test to proveyour basic English skills. It should not be an academic purpose.

To sum up, just preparing a lot with TOEFL materials istotally wasting your time. It is definitely not an efficient way.Also, the TOEFL score is a small part of the application. Manyschools regard applicants’ academic abilities and potential asimportant. International students should learn English in amore efficient way for their original academic purpose.

The writer, from Korea, is in Marsha Dean’s advanced class.

by Keun Chang Yang (“Ken”)TOEFL for International Students

W hy are international students required to submitTOEFL scores when they apply to a university inthe United States? According to ETS, “about

twenty million applicants have taken TOEFL since 1964, andthere are more than 4,500 institutions such as colleges, univer-sities, professional schools, and sponsoring institutions whichadopt the TOEFL system in the world” (ets.org). A TOEFLscore is necessary for international students, but it should not bea decisive element to get into a university.

First, TOEFL is not a complete English test. Many appli-cants study English only for TOEFL, so their English skillstend to be distorted. In addition, sometimes the test is easy,but sometimes it is difficult. If you keep taking the test, someday your score will jump up. One reason is that you get usedto taking it, but another reason is that you encounter an easyone. TOEFL difficulties are scattered.

Next, a TOEFL score does not show an applicant’s talents.Even though students could be geniuses in their major, uni-

versities reject them because of their English skills. Eventhough applicants have amazing experience that no one elsehas ever had, universities do not allow them to get in. Studentsshould study English before applying if their English is toopoor. However, universities should give them permission toenter if they have basic English skills or they can study theirmajor and improve English at the same time.

The supporters of the primary requirement of the TOEFLscore say that international students could not learn as much asa student who has a high score on TOEFL does, and they mightdisturb professors and classmates if they did not get a highenough score to enter a university. Supporters think that inter-national students cannot understand classes or write essays orreports if they did not get a high score. However, some stu-dents cannot discuss anything with professors or classmateseven though they have a high score. They are good at writingor reading, but not speaking.

Thus, universities cannot completely predict if the applicantcan be a good student or not only by his TOEFL score. Thedecisive reason for applicants to enter a university should betheir background, career, transcript, abilities and possibilities,but it should not be only TOEFL scores.

The writer, from Japan, is in Marsha Dean’s advanced class.

by Shinichi NarusakoWhy the TOEFL?

Summer 2003 QuizQuiz8080

1. Done or ready.

2. Big, long streets: Mass _______ and Comm _______.

3. Massive highway project through the heart ofBoston. It is the most expensive highway project inU.S. history—over $1 billion per mile.

4. Highway shoulder. Also, an oxymoron: the last placeyou actually want to break down in greater Boston,especially during rush hour, when it becomes thehigh-speed lane (in some places, even legally).

5. A soft, fluffy roll. Only in Boston they are sometimesserved at Chinese restaurants.

6. “Take the next _____ to Nawth Station and get off atHaymahket.”

7. Boston version of bowling. Uses little pins and tiny ballsThe pins are so hard to hit, you get three tries a frame.

8. Massachusetts has two capes—Cape Ann and CapeCod. But only the latter is known as ______________.

9. Where two streets meet. Sometimes, a small neighborhood.

10. The green in the center of town, so-called because itwas land held in common for residents.

11. What you use to signal that you’re about to make aturn in your car. Known in other parts of the countryas a “blinker” or “turn signal.”

12. Where somebody is, for example: “They’re _____ theCape today.”

13. A milkshake or malted elsewhere, it’s basically icecream, milk, and chocolate syrup blended together.(The “e” is silent.)

14. The Massachusetts Turnpike. Also, the world’s longestparking lot, especially heading west on Friday afternoons.

15. The town at the end of The Cape.

16. A small, ambiguous piece of fish that never knows ifit’s cod or haddock. It’s basically whatever’s cheaper atthe fish pier that day.

17. The Boston subway system.

18. A B.U. dormitory on Bay State Road (not to be con-fused with Warren Towers—those three dorms sittingatop a parking garage on Comm. Ave.).

19. A U-turn—the Official Turn of Boston drivers.

20. A general intensifier: “That’s _________ awesome!”

selected and adapted fromBoston Online’s “Wicked Good Guide to Boston English”

www.boston-online.com/wickedv.htmlBoston English Quiz

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7.Candlepins8.The Cape9.Cawna10.Common11.Directional12.Down13.Frappe

14.The Pike15.P-town16.Scrod17.The T18.The Towers19.Uey20.Wicked

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Summer 2003 ReviewsReviews8282

Les ZygomatesOne South Street, Boston

by Laima Stankunaite

I would like to introduce a restaurant where we celebratedmy birthday. This restaurant is called Les Zygomates and

is located in the South End section of Boston. The closest Tstation is Boylston. It takes only five minutes to get therefrom the station on foot.

It is a French restaurant, and it is famous for many deli-cious kinds of food. Many people go there to have their din-ner, lunch or for something to celebrate.

The restaurant has one floor. There is wine bar sectionon the left. On the right there are dining seats with small andbig tables. This restaurant is a very good place to hang out orto have a birthday party. The atmosphere of the reataurant iswarm, modern, and feels like you are eating in Paris. Somewaiters can speak French.

How about the price? Of course, I don’t know becauseI didn’t pay, but it totally depends on what you order. If youorder duck or seafood, French cheese and salad, you couldpay around $40, including tax and tip. But you can save moreif you order simple food, such as pizza, French fries, or juices.

There are many kinds of drinks, many different sorts ofwine, cocktails, and hard liquor drinks. My friend tried a few

kinds of French wine. At Les Zygomates you can try anydrink and you don’t need to pay for that. Most dishes areFrench, smell delicious and look nice. You can choose appe-tizers, main courses, side dishes, beverages and desserts. Iordered salad, duck with French fries, French cheese andfresh juice. My friend was very happy. Finally, he could eatFrench food. The desserts are really excellent. The wholemeal was astoundingly delicious.

Most waiters and waitresses are nice and friendly. Theycan give more information about food and drinks. They areglad to serve you. They brought the dishes in good time. Iguarantee if you go there, you will be satisfied.

Another good point is that you don’t have to worry aboutparking. There are many parking spaces next to the restau-rant. Maybe you will have the opportunity to meet Frenchpeople if you are interested in that. I ran into my friend fromParis. I was blown away! I would recommend this place toall CELOP students, especially to Europeans. You won’t bedisappointed, if you like this style restaurant.

Angora Café1024 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston

by Ana C. Salvatierra

I went to lunch with my friend Laima to Angora Café. Thisis an American restaurant. It was delicious and very cheap.

Angora Cafe has many options to eat and everythinglooked good. I ate a Grilled Chicken Roll Up. In this restau-rant Roll Up means a Wrap.

This wrap was excellent. It was big for me but OK. Thiswrap had tomatoes, lettuce, sprouts, carrots, chiken andhoney Dijon dressing. I drank a Diet Coke and for dessert Ihad cookies. My meal cost $8 including the tax and you don’thave to pay tip because this Cafe is selfservice. I think that thiscafe is very good if you want to eat fast and light.

Angora Cafe is a small restaurant with only eleven tables.The decoration is a little informal and they have a big TV onthe wall and the music is OK. It was good for me.

R e s t a u r a n t R e v i e w s

Chris Antonellis’s class

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Cheesecake FactoryPrudential Center

by Megumi Hisaoka & Suriya Kullavanich

O ne week-end we had

lunch with ourfriends at TheCheesecake Fac-tory restaurant.It is on the firstfloor in Pruden-tial Center. We can go to the restaurant by subway. Forexample, if we take the Green Line, we can get off at Cop-ley station. If we take the Orange Line, we can get off atBack Bay station. The restaurant has many kinds of food,such as Italian food, Thai food, Japanese food, Americanfood, etc. But I think this restaurant is famous for cheesecake.

The atmosphere inside the restaurant is very beautiful.There are many lanterns as well as many tables for customers.It has a high ceiling and wonderful wallpaper. There is abig bar. The waiter was friendly and showed us to our table.The service was fast. We ordered Portabella Pizza, CrispySpicy Beef for the entree, Tiramisu cake, and Tiramisucheesecake for dessert. We drank orange juice and ice water.We liked the Portabello Pizza, but I did not like the CrispySpicy Beef because it was too sweet. Our meal cost $80 forfive people, including the tax and tip. I don’t think it wasexpensive compared to the same level restaurant in otherplaces.

In our opinion, the restaurant is good at the decoration,the service, and the cheesecake, but the entrees are not sogood. Therefore, the next time I go there, I will order onlydessert.

Montien63 Stuart Street, Boston

by Apirak Yosaeng & Eun Byul Kim

I went to eat dinner with Kim at Montien. This is a Thairestaurant. I went to Montien restaurant because my

Thai friend told me it was delicious, and I wanted to try it.

I saw three kinds of menus: they have original Thai food,Thai for America, and a sushi bar. We decided to order orig-inal Thai food. We drank Thai ice tea and ate papaya salad,Thai country sausage, and sticky rice for appetizers. Then weate shrimp, hot and sour soup. It was served in a hot pot. Wealso ate chili chili fish. It was served on a sizzling pan andwith steamed rice. These dishes were spicy, but we liked it.For dessert we had mango with sticky rice.

The price for dinner was including the tax and tip. It was-n’t expensive because we had lots of orders and ate very deli-cious Thai food.

Montien is Thai model style. The decoration is roman-tic and service was fast and friendly. I’ll go back to Montienrestaurant again because I would like to try other kinds ofThai food there.

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Angora Café1024 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston

by Masato Koizumi & Minerva Di Giacomo

W e decided to go to Angora Cafe for our projectbecause Minerva’s sister had visited there before, and

she recommended the restaurant to us. It’s a cafe-style restau-rant located nearCELOP, so we decidedto go for lunch. Therestaurant is famous forthe best frozen yogurt inBoston. There are manypeople in the restaurantduring lunchtime. Some people took food out; other peoplewere eating food in the restaurant. We spent one hour atlunch. The list below comprises our evaluation of AngoraCafé:

1. location: very good2. cleanliness: so-so3. decor and lighting: so-so4. background music: so-so5. condition of restroom: bad6. service: good7. menu selection: very good8. quality of food: so-so9. presentation of food: so-so10. portion sizes: good11. prices: very good12. beverages: very good

The cafe is located on Commonwealth Avenue, a bigstreet near Boston University. We can get there by subway.Therefore, it is easy to go eat lunch or have tea.

The cafe is not dirty, but it is not very clean like an expen-sive restaurant. However, it is clean enough as a cafe. In addi-tion, half of the lighting did not work. We felt it was dark.Inside there are sofas and six tables. Also, the shop has sixoutside tables at which to eat. We can have lunch in the sun.Moreover, it has a big television instead of background music.Everyone can watch television. The decoration is pretty nice,

but we were disappointed that there were no restrooms forcustomers.

The defining characteristic of the cafe is its speed.Although they made food after ordering, it was ready withinfive minutes. The workers are usually friendly, but it dependson the person. Furthermore, the shop has many menu selec-tions and flavors. For example, there are 21 kinds of pitarolls, 20 kinds of sandwiches, many kinds of salads and pizza,and we can make our own salad and pizza from many top-

pings. Especially, theshop has over 50 flavorsof frozen yogurt andsmoothies. Also, we cancreate our own flavor bymixing and matching.There are some entrees,different kinds of soup,

daily breakfasts, and weekend brunches. We have manychoices of beverages. The restaurant has many kinds of cof-fee, soda, and soft drinks. Therefore, we can enjoy differentfood each time.

The quality of food is good because they serve it hot andfresh. We ordered some pizza and pita rolls which were verydelicious and big. The sizes were good for lunch. However,the total bill was not expensive. We were full with $6 or $7including beverages. Frozen yogurt is less than $3. We canenjoy meals cheaply.

However, the shop does not focus on the presentation offood. The cafe uses paper dishes for pizza, but the dishes arealways clean, and they provide food quickly. We did not espe-cially care about the presentation of food.

In conclusion, we really had a good time for lunch.Angora Café is better than we thought. Even if we go theremany times, we will not get bored, because we can try differ-ent food anytime from many menus. We recommend thecafe very much. Moreover, it delivers food to our homes, sowe can enjoy meals in our rooms. Also, it has a website:www.angoracafe.com. We recommend you check out itswebsite and go there as soon as possible. If you go to havelunch, we guarantee you will not be disappointed.

R e s t a u r a n t R e v i e w s

Doreen Miller’s class

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Uno’s Chicago PizzariaKenmore Square, Boston

Jae Hong Kim, Maasa Daido & Eyup Tavukcuoglu

E yup recommended Uno’s pizza restaurant. Maasa andI agreed because we wanted to go to a restaurant which

was close to CELOP and had low prices for Boston. After westudied English, we went to Uno’s pizza restaurant on Mon-day last week. Uno is located onthe corner of Beacon and Boylstonstreets.

It took 15mintues fromCELOP to the restaurant by sub-way. As soon as we opened thedoor, Uno’s staff greeted us. Ithought they are so kind and cute.A waitress gave us a menu. Welooked at the menu, but we didn’tselect food from the menu. Weasked her many questions aboutthe food. She answered everyquestion very kindly. After a few minutes, we orderedspaghetti. After 10 minutes, she brought our food. I wassurprised by their service speed. After we ate, we dis-cussed the quality, spices, flavoring, and temperature offood.

Uno’s decoration was electronic and sporty becauseof the many baseball pictures on the wall. HoweverUno’s lighting was just gloomy and dark. I didn’t likethe dark mood. Uno’s background music was mostly oldpop which made the restaurant more relaxing. Most

tables were a little dirty, and the restroom smelled bad, butUno’s cleanliness was not too bad. The food quality, spicesand temperature were good. In other words, everything wasfine. The pizza size and spaghetti were so good. The foodtemperature was fine because of the fast service, so we said,“It’s so good.”

Uno’s prices ranged from four to fifteen dollars, so wethink that Uno’s prices were not more expensive than at

other restaurants. There weremany beverages, but their sizeswere not big enough.

Our conclusion is that if youwant to go Uno, we told youUno’s address, but we don’t rec-ommended it to you. Maybe ifwe want to eat pizza, we will tryanother Uno restaurant or go toa good Italian restaurant inBoston’s famous North End.

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Maasa Daido in Napa Valley, California, Amer-ica’s premiere wine-making region, in May 2003.


T hree men who are blue all over their bodies perform theshow without speaking any words. That is Blue Man

Group. The popular show from off-Broadway is famous aroundthe world. Some people go again and again. I had been look-ing forward to seeing it since I got a ticket because I heard alot of wonderful news about Blue Man Group from people whohad already seen the show. And I saw a lot of advertisementsin Boston. Also, I got a really good seat in the first row, infront of the stage. I could not wait.

The theater where Blue Man Group played was small andlocated on a small street. However, as I entered the theater, Iwas so excited about the mood, which felt like something mighthappen, in the small theater. Moreover, I found a raincoat onmy seat. It made me more excited about what might happen.

The show was very funny, not only during the show, butalso before the Blue Men showed up. For example, there

were many jokes: celebrating someone’s birthday, pickingsome people out to make jokes, or requiring us to sing theU.S. national song at the end of the introduction. Of course,I said above that nobody made us laugh by speaking. Theyused electric bulletin boards instead of speaking.

The show attracted me the whole way through. The threeBlue Men played unusual percussion: big and small drums,pipes, and tubes. Also, they made really funny jokes using pic-tures and electronic boards. In addition, we could join in theshow. Actually, the Blue Men often came down to the audienceand picked people up. For instance, a man was picked up andcarried backstage, where he was painted blue and silhouettedon big paper. When the Blue Men came down to us, I expectedI might be chosen. The characteristic of Blue Man Group isnot only that the audience watches the funny show, but alsothat people take part in it. Finally, the end of the story wasamazing, exiting, and beyond my expectation; the theater wasfull of paper. It is difficult to explain the end with words.

I took pictures with the Blue Men after the show. Theygave me a “blue kiss mark” on my ticket. I am sure I will goto the play again soon. Blue Man Group is surprising, lovely,and awesome! Those words are not enough to explain theshow. I hope everyone sees it. I promise you will like it!

The writer, from Japan, is in Barbara Bliss’s class.

Theater ReviewTheater Review

Blue Man Group

by Masato Koizumi

T his movie is an action and adventure drama. We allagreed that it was a good movie. We enjoyed it a lot.

The Italian Job begins in Venice, where master thief Char-lie Croker (Mark Walhberg) and his crew, veteran safecrackerJohn (Donald Sutherland), detail man Steve (Edward Nor-ton), compuer whiz Lyle (Mos Def), have just stolen a king’sransom in gold. The movie describes a group of professionalthieves who plan on stealing $20 million in gold. They cre-ate the largest traffic jam in Los Angeles. They’re successfulin stealing the gold, but Steve wants all of it. He betrays theteam, kills John, and takes all the gold. One year later the

thieves want to punish the one who betrayed them and takeback the gold. They find a new partner, John’s daughter,Stella (Charlize Theron), They also buy a Mini Cooper, acar small enough to drive on sidewalks and in the subway.Finally, they take back their gold and punish the betrayers.

The movie was exciting. You see how Charlie takes backtheir gold and punishes the betrayer. Stella is beautiful, sexy,and clever. You see how to drive on sidewalks and throughtraffic jams. We liked the Mini Coopers a lot in the movie.If we had enough money, we would buy one.

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C hris Antonellis’s class went on awalk about Boston strolling

through the Public Garden, BeaconHill, and the Waterfront. MegumiHisaoka took some photos.

Laima on Mayor Curley’s benchnear Haymarket Square.


Lunch on the waterfrontnear the North End.

On one of the most photographed streets inBoston, cobblestoned Acorn Street on BeaconHill. [below right] An historical flag on Acorn St.

On a Boston Harbor cruise.

Summer 2003 StatisticsStatistics9292

Program Enrollment

Many students are enrolled inpart-time programs, allowingthem to work and pursueother interests while they arelearning English. The secondlargest number of students,however, chose to study Eng-lish full-time for the wholesummer.

Full-Time Student Concen-trations

A large number of studentstake English for AcademicPurposes because they areinterested in studying in theU.S. after CELOP. There isalso a great number of stu-dents taking Legal English tohelp them in their legalcareers at home and in theU.S.

CELOP StatsWendy Kohn analyzed our student popula-tion this semester and came up with someinteresting facts, which she graphed in Excel.

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Gender

Reflecting the proportions inU.S. college enrollments gen-erally, women make up themajority at CELOP. SoCELOP men seem to haveslightly better odds of findinga girlfriend than woman haveof finding a boyfriend.

Who’s available?

A small percentage of stu-dents here are married. Someof them live here with theirspouses, while others are sep-arated from their familieswhile studying at CELOP.

Age of Students

The largest number of stu-dents is in their twenties.Many of these students arestudying English for univer-sity programs either in theU.S. or in their home coun-tries. Older students, how-ever, some mid-career profes-sionals, make up an importantpart of the CELOP studentpopulation.

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Where our students live

Most students live off campuseither in their own apart-ments or with host families.On-campus students mostlylive in the apartments on BayState Road.

Major/Field of Study

240 students did not respondto this item, so the graph doesnot accurately represent thedistribution of students’ inter-ests. However, it does showthat students here are in alarge variety of professionsand can use their Englishskills for many purposes.

WHERE STUDENTS COME FROM

Middle East and Africa

This summer relatively fewstudents are here from theMiddle East and Africa. Pastsemesters have seen manymore students from theseregions.

StatisticsStatistics Summer 2003 9595

Asia

Asia is our most representedregion. Japan, Korea, Thai-land, and Taiwan send themost students here to study.

Latin America

Latin America is our secondmost represented region ofthe world. Students are froma wider variety of countries,all but Brazil Spanish-speak-ing.

Europe

We have many European stu-dents here, with Italy beingthe best represented. Theyrepresent many differentcountries and speak many dif-ferent languages.

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Friday Movie Club @ CELOPF r e e Friday Movies provide students with a

fun way to relax after a week of studyinghard in their classes. Popular movies are shown (withsubtitles) to help CELOP students practice theirEnglish skills while learning about American cul-ture through film. It is a great way for students toincrease their vocabulary and improve their listeningskills! All students in all levels are welcome to enjoythe movies and free refreshments every Friday!

MOVIES SHOWN IN SUMMER 2003:

Harry Potter and the Chamber of SecretsThe Life of David Gale Just MarriedCatch Me If You Can The PianistGangs of New York The HoursTwo Weeks Notice DaredevilSpirited Away The Ring

Along with the Free Friday Movies is an Off-Beat Movie Series. These movies are shown everyweek as a supplement to the elective class “Ameri-can Culture Through Movies.” Although thesemovies are shown for the benefit of the students inthe elective who are learning about the films, they arealso open to all CELOP students. CELOP teacherDoug Kohn chose the following films for his class forthe Summer 2003 semester:

The Manchurian CandidateDesperately Seeking SusanDo the Right ThingReal Women Have Curves

by Jenn Kay Kosch

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CELOP Sitcom Club: The Simpsons

by Jenn Kay Kosch

I n this club CELOP students watch a newepisode of The Simpsons, one of the most

popular television shows in America, every week.Afterwards, we discuss such things as vocabulary,slang and cultural references.

For example, after seeing an episode titled “Bart

Gets Hit By a Car”, we had a great discussion aboutthe American court system. During a discussion ofanother episode, “Bart Gets an F”, we talked aboutschool systems and teaching methods in the U.S.and abroad. We also have different activities to helpenrich each meeting such as trivia contests, vocabu-lary challenges, crossword puzzles and more! Some-times students can even win great prizes and there arealways delicious refreshments. It is a great way forstudents to practice their speaking/listening skills!

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CELOP Short Story Reading Group

by Jenn Kay Kosch

O n c e a week, students meet to discussthe assigned story. Every week

we read a different author and try to have a varietyof topics and genres so there is some-thing for everyone! This semester weread satires, mysteries, romances andmore! Students discuss the stories,learn new vocabulary and watchaccompanying movies. Some of the

authors we read are Shirley Jackson, Ernest Hem-ingway and Dorothy Parker. Each session beginswith student questions about vocabulary, followed bya discussion of the story, and ending with some typeof activity. For example, after reading “The Red-headed League”(a Sherlock Holmes Mystery by SirArthur Conan Doyle) students were given their own

short mysteries to solve.

Every student who solved the casethey were given won a great newmystery novel to help furtherimprove their skills. This is a greatway to get to know popular short sto-ries and practice your English skills!

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Conversation Exchange

by Jenn Kay Kosch

T h e Conversation Exchange meets weeklyat CELOP. In this club, students get

to know each other better while practicing theirEnglish skills. Some of the language activitiesinclude creating international menus with cookingvocabulary, going on a scavenger hunt, and play-

ing vocabulary games. We also have several specialworkshops including our very popular slang work-shop. Conversation Exchange is a great way for stu-dents to practice their listening and speaking skillsas well as improving their vocabulary. This club,along with the many others offered at CELOP, is freeand open to all students of all levels of English lan-guage proficiency.


Slang Workshops

by Jenn Kay Kosch

T h e Conversation Exchange Club focussed on slangexpressions. Two student volunteers perform a

dialogue for the group. All of the slang in this conversation isindicated in bold on the handouts and is taken from wordslearned at the workshop. After listening to thissample, students are asked to choose a partner andcreate their own dialogue using the new slang wordsor phrases that they have learned.

What�s up? Is everything cool?

What�s going on with you? Later

She hit the roof totally rules

BUBU GlobalGlobal Summer 2003 103103

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• Learn more about financial services, information technology,and marketing than is offered in most MBA programs

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For E-mail addresses of faculty, go to the Faculty & Staff section of the CELOP Web site: www.bu.edu/celop

Chris AntonellisJamie BeatonShelley BertolinoBarbara BlissLynn BonesteelJill BrandRon ClarkPamela CouchLinda CoyneBetty D’AngeloJudith DanTom DavisonRenee DelatizkyJeff Di IuglioJudy Di LeoMarsha Dean

Margo DowneyMichael FeldmanShelley FishmanCynthia FlammJoanne FoxSterling GilesJoyce HoMelanie JoyJames KaplanDoug KohnJohn KopecGeorge KrikorianJacquie LoConteLori LubeskiDorothy LyndeBob Maguire

Irene MaksymjukDoreen MillerMargo MillerAmelia OnoratoPatricia PeknikJoe PettigrewCarol PiñeiroMichelle RemaudGregg SingerNora SmithPam SteevesRamon ValenzuelaSusan VikEllen YanivBarbara ZimmermanDon Zimmerman

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Nicole

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Gabriella

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Multimedia LanguageLab Coordinator

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Miriam

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Assistant Director, Administration

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Senior Staff Assistant<[email protected]>

Alicia

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Jenn Kay

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Student Life Coordinator<[email protected]>

Helen

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Administrative Assistant

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Marcella

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Admissions Officer<[email protected]>

Lara

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Administrator,Marketing & Admissions

<[email protected]>

Bruce

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Associate Director,Academic Programs<[email protected]>

Margot

Valdivia

Director of CELOP<[email protected]>

Jonathan

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Beginning a University Program?

Why not continue improv-ing your English while you

pursue your degree?

www.bu.edu/celop/part-timeIMPORTANT! Students studying part-time are not eligible for a CELOP I-20. To remain in the U.S. on your F-1 Student Visa, you must beenrolled full-time at CELOP,Boston University,or another qualified institution. See Marcella Framondi in office #238 for more information.

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What can I do after Summer 2003?

The Summer 2003 program is drawing to a close and many of you are thinking about life after CELOP. When mak-ing plans for the future, you must remember some important details and procedures related to your visa and yourSEVIS I-20. Here are answers to your most urgent questions:

I am returning to CELOP. What should I do?

Complete the following steps by August 15, 2003:

• You must complete a Fall 2003 Continuing Student Application form.

• Make sure that your passport is valid at least 6 months into the future.

• If you will exit the U.S. after the Summer semester and you plan to come back for the Fall semester, make sure that your F-1 visa is still valid and that you have a valid signature from Marcella (#238) on page 3 of your SEVIS I-20.

I am leaving CELOP and transferring to another school. What should I do? You must submit to CELOP a Transfer Report for the school you wish to attend so that we can release you fortransfer in SEVIS. Your new school will be responsible for preparing a new SEVIS I-20. Please rememberthat it takes CELOP 24 hours to process a transfer, so make sure to do this with time. The SEVIS transfer releasedate will be August 15, 2003 when the Summer 2003 session ends.

I am leaving CELOP and transferring into an academic program at BU. What should I do?You must make sure that you check-in with the International Student & Scholars Office at BU if you will continueyour studies in an academic program this Fall. The BU International Students & Scholars Office (ISSO) canassist you with this process and you should plan on visiting them in August. They are located at 19 Deerfield St.,2nd Floor. Make sure that you bring your SEVIS I-20, BU ID card, passport and I-94 card to the ISSO office.

I am staying inside the U.S. to relax and travel before returning to my home country. What should I do?Remember, whenever you stop studying, you may remain inside the U.S. for only 60 days while preparing foryour return trip home. By day 60 (OCTOBER 14, 1 2003), you must exit the U.S. If you stay more than 60days and do not resume full-time studies and do not have an I-20 from the school you are attending, you maybe considered to be inside the U.S. unlawfully. Please note that CELOP will report you to SEVIS has havingcompleted your program on August 15, 2003.

I have no idea what I’m doing after this semester. What should I do?You only have 60 days after your last class at CELOP to:

• transfer to another school

• go home

• OR, you can apply to continue at CELOP for the next available session, Fall 2003, NO LATER THAN AUGUST 15, 2003!

You have 60 days after the last day of class to complete these procedures!

August 15, 2003 + 60 days = October 14, 2003

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Go to the CELOP Web site “Alumni” section

www.bu.edu/celop

For information about the CELOP Semester Books, please contact John de Szendeffy <[email protected]> or the Semester Book class <[email protected]>. The Books are also available in Adobe Acrobat PDF format on the Web.

All material © Center for English Language and Orientation Programs, 2003.

THE ENGLISH YOU NEED FOR THE FUTURE YOU WANTStudy English at Boston University Center for English Language and Orientation Programs

Tel: 617.353.4870 • Fax: 617.353.6195 • E-mail: [email protected] • Web: www.bu.edu/celop | 890 Commonwealth Ave., Boston, Massachusetts 02215, USA

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