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Dear Students • Credits 2Semester Book Elective Class 3Countries Represented at CELOP 4Salem 6The Way the Pilgrims Succeeded in Surviving, by Keiko Koyama 8Plimoth Plantation 9Niagara Falls 10Harvard Square 12The Freeport Tour 14Comments from Students 14Twilight Store—“Flyrabbit,” by Hee-Jeong Lee and Jin-Soon Lee 15Pumpkin Painting for Halloween 16Halloween, by Yasmina Zerhouni 17Halloween Party, by Kazuyo Nishida 17Salem Witch illustration, by Ji-Yeon Lee 18Scary Story, by Namy Kim 19Halloween, by Julio Alvear 19The Truth, by Ji-Yeon Lee 20She Is . . . , by Ai Tojima 20Optical Illustion Puzzles 22War, by Munerah Faraj 24Frightening Moments, by Perla Guelrud De Pleffer 25September 11, 2001, by Miguel Cota 26The Girls Festival of Japan, by Kikue Sasaki 27Quotations—More than Words, by Esser Daniel Melul 28Optical Illusion Puzzle Answers 28CELOP—An Enriching Experience, by Esser Daniel Melul 29Student Interview

Hassan Sfar and Raya Abid, by Edouard Burrus 30The Boston Celtics, by Miguel Cota 31I Love My Classes, by Peansook Manrakrean 32My Identity, by Takehisa Nitta 33Earthquake, by Dogan Hananel 34Sweet Lemon, by Luisa Rubiano 34Communicating Effectively, by Sister Olga Yaqob 36Recipe for Kimchee, by Sunwha-Lim 37Student Survey, by Miguel Cota, Hee-Jeong Lee, Esser Daniel Melul, Saro Zenini 38Class Pictures 40Elective Class Teachers 55Faculty Interviews

Gregg Singer, by Esser Daniel Melul and Marine Clavreux 56Kathy McCartan, by Jin-Soon Lee and Saro Zenini 57

Staff InterviewsGabriella Campozano, by Sorur Talaee Rad 58Nancy Cho, by Hee-Jeong Lee and Miguel Cota 59Nicole Buchholz, by Yuya Tomose and Shin Chul Choi 60Laura Elisabeth Rumbley, by Raya Abid and Altynshash Cherdabayeva 61John de Szendeffy, by Jea-Seung Jeon and Taichiro Yamamoto 62Jenn Kay Kosch, by Sue Yen-Tai and Ji-Yeon Lee 63Aliana Piñeiro, by Emmanulle Shahar 64

Movie ReviewsMonsters, Inc., by Takahiro Oguiri 66Zoolander, by Marine Clavreux 67

Faculty List 68Staff List 69

Contents

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Dear Students � Credits Fall 2001

T he end of each semester at CELOP is a bittersweet moment. On the one hand, it is a sad time ofgoodbyes. On the other hand, most of us feel very happy and proud when we think of the newfriendships we have made and all of the special lessons we have learned over the last three months.

The end of the Fall 2001 semester feels especially poignant. During this short time at CELOP, we havewitnessed incredibly disturbing events inside the United States and around the world. At the same time, thework we have done together at CELOP has been a bright spot in a world that often seems cruel and con-fusing. Each of us in our own way has played a small but important role in helping to shape the future, whatwe all believe must be a better future. How? By living, learning and growing across cultures. CELOP stu-dents are special in this way. By your willingness to visit a new country, study a new language and make newfriends from across the globe, you contribute directly to greater understanding in the world. Throughunderstanding, peace may grow and thrive.

The images captured in this Semester Book reflect a special time and a special place. Each of us hasmade it so. No matter where you go or what you do now, we hope that you will continue to learn about theworld around you and share yourself with others who wish to learn. May you remember CELOP fondlyand return to visit with us frequently. Peace.

And at my feet eternity draws ever sweeter plans for me. “Ship of Fools,” by Robert Plante

Laura E. RumbleyBoston, December 2001

This is the fifth edition of the CELOP Semester Book. It is published every semester and avail-able at the Front Desk free of charge to all current students. All Semester Books can be down-loaded from the CELOP Alumni site as an Adobe Acrobat (pdf) document, www.bu.edu/celop.Send correspondence regarding the Semester Book to John de Szendeffy <[email protected]>.

COVER: Art: Marine Clavreaux; Concept: Esser Daniel Melul; Layout: Lesley Andrews, Erin Johnston.BACK COVER COLLAGE: Erin Johnston.

All material © Center for English Language and Orientation Programs, Boston University, 2001. [v.5.0]

CELOP Fall 2001 Semester Book

Editors John de Szendeffy, Chris Antonellis, Barbara BlissLayout John de Szendeffy, Erin JohnstonProduction Assistance Lesley Andrews, Jonathan WhitePhotographers SBE students, Lesley AndrewsDistribution Nicole Buchholz, Gabriella CampozanoContributor Laura Rumbley

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SBE CreditsFall 2001

Takahiro OguriJapan

Chris Antonellis

Esser Daniel MelulVenezuela

Edouard BurrusSwitzerland

Barbara Bliss

Hee-Jeong LeeKorea

Jin Soon LeeKorea

An introduction to the Semester Book by the Fall2001 Semester Book Elective Class with Chris

Antonellis and Barbara Bliss

e are the Semester Bookelective class. The

Semester Book elective is anunusual class, not like the other

ones. It’s as if we’re working ona newspaper, so we had research to

do. Sometimes we had lots of workand pressure and we had to sacrifice

a lot of time. At other times werelaxed and took it easy.

The class is not as formal as other classes; we learn indirectly.It’s a fun class where we do writing, reading, and speaking. Thedistance between teachers and students is small in this class,because we’re all working together. We also work closely with dif-ferent people from different cultures. It’s a good course for quietstudents to help them blossom, because they have a real role in thisclass. If you don’t want to get bored, you can choose this elective.

This semester, we especially had fun going to Harvard Squareto take pictures and interview unique people. We could have freetickets to see shows—which we had to review, of course. We alsoimproved our computer skills. Maybe we are going to miss Chris’surging us to work faster, Barbara’s Halloween earrings, and ourclassmates’ enthusiasm.

It was so nice to work on the Semester Book because it’s some-thing which is going to be in our hands at the end of the semester.We’re going to be famous, and we’ re going to remember our timein Boston. It sometimes seemed difficult to make a sentence, butthe moment we saw the product when it was laid out and ready tobe published, it felt good.

We hope you will appreciate the work we’ve done for you. Thisbook is for you, not to forget this incredible, exciting semester.

Keiko KoyamaJapan

Marine ClavreuxFrance

Emmanuelle ShaharFrance

Miguel Angel Cota VargasMexico

Saro ZeniniVenezuela

Barbara and Chris would like to express special thanks to Keiko and Taka, for whom this elective was com-pletely optional. Their creative ideas, hard work and dedication contributed greatly to the success of this book.

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Fall 2001Countries

52 countries represented this semesterGuatemalaHaitiHondurasHong KongIndiaIndonesia IranIraqIvory CoastJapanKazakhstanKorea, Republic ofKuwaitLebanonMexicoMoroccoNicaragua

PeruPuerto RicoPolandPortugalQatarRomaniaRussiaSaudi ArabiaSlovakiaSpainSwitzerlandTaiwan, R.O.C.ThailandTunisiaTurkeyUSAUzbekistanVenezuela

ArgentinaAzerbaijanBelarusBelgiumBrazilCameroonCanadaChileChina, People’s RepublicCongo, DemocraticColombiaCosta RicaDominican RepublicEl SalvadorEthiopiaFranceGreece

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Student PhotosFall 2001

Halloween antics in theCELOP lobby and MLL.

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Fall 2001Salem

Class Trip to SalemPhotos contributed by Chris Antonellis’ and Margo Downey’s classes.

Margo Downey’s class inSalem. Sung Jae, Seong Joo,Taka, Jiao, Ai, Sayumi,Joaquin, Violeta, Chrisian.

Students in Stocks. Yuya Tomose, ShinChul Choi, Ji-Yeon Lee—prisoners atthe Salem Witch Dungeon Museum.

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SalemFall 2001

Several CELOP classes at Salemcommuter rail station.

Salem Witch Museum.

Jae-seung Jeon, Taichiro Yamamoto,Shin Chul Choi, Yuya Tomose.

Tomoaki on “TheFriendship.”

Taichiro Yamamoto, Yen-tai Su,Jae-seung Jeon, Shin Chul Choi.

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Fall 2001Plimoth Plantation

The Way the Pilgrims Succeeded inSurviving

I know that manyclasses inCELOP visited

Plimoth Plantationon their class trip.Plymouth is called“the hometown ofAmerica” because it isthe first place in NewEngland where theEuropean people suc-ceeded in immigra-tion, so Plymouth is avery important place for Americans. Our class alsowent to Plimoth Plantation and learned how the peo-ple who were called “Pilgrims” lived. By seeing andputting a lot of questions to the staff at thePlantation, we learned about the history with ourown eyes.

It was during the winter in 1620 that the Pilgrimsmigrated to Plymouth by the ship, “Mayflower.”

Then, tired from the long voyage, lack of fresh food,and the severe cold in New England attacked them,and half of them died. Nevertheless, the rest of themmanaged to survive and develop their lives.

I think that there are three reasons that they suc-ceeded. The first is by the help of the native people.The Wampanoag people helped them to adapt to

their new land. Forexample, they taughtthem which plantswere edible, or formedicines, and howto hunt deer, wildturkey, and fish. Thesecond reason thatthe Pilgrims survivedis they developedtheir society by furtrading. Fur, particu-larly beaver and

otter, was quite demanded in Europe. Lastly, theyadapted their own culture to the environment. ThePilgrims were English men and women doing theirbest to continue the lives they knew well.

Anyway, I enjoyed our class trip so much! Theweather was fine, and the landscape from theMayflower was so nice. History should be felt by ourown skin, shouldn’t it?

by Keiko Koyama

� Semester Book Elective �Photos contributed by Jill Brand’s, Pam Steeves’, Joe

Pettigrew’s, and Pamela Couch’s classes.

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Plimoth PlantationFall 2001

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Fall 2001Niagara Falls

Memory of Niagara Falls

O n the morning of October 20, I arrived atNiagara Falls with three of my friends. It wasa fine and pleasant day for us to see the Falls.

But then, we were so tired, because we had had a tightplan for this trip. On Friday evening, after having din-ner, we went to South Station to get on a Greyhoundbus at 8:30pm. Then our long trip to Niagara that tookmore than 10 hours started.

As soon as we gotthere, we could hearthe sound of the Falls.We ran to the direc-tion making thatsound, and we weresurprised at the spec-tacle. There wastremendous waterfalling from the top ofa precipice to the bot-tom. But it was a pitythat half of the Fallswere blurry withspray. At the sight ofthe most huge andmajestic falls that wehave ever seen, wewere so excited. Aftertaking pictures, we crossed the Rainbow Bridge archbetween America and Canada. That is, we enteredCanada. We had heard that we could see the Falls bet-ter on the Canadian side than from America. Therewere a lot of stores and many people on the Canadianside of Niagara.

At first we rode the ship, the Maid of the Mist, inCanada. This is the most popular attraction in NiagaraFalls. This ship takes us close to the Falls for 30 min-utes. After buying the ticket, we put on blue ponchos.Then we hurried to get a good position, because therewere many people on the ship. The ship started. As theship approached the Falls, we got soaked with water. Itwas difficult to take pictures and to protect our cameras

at the same time. When we were nearest to the Falls,we could not open our eyes, because there was so muchwater coming down in our face. After riding, we weresoaked, but so satisfied.

After that, we decided to go to the “JourneyBehind The Falls.” We were so excited because weexpected that we might walk behind Niagara Falls. Werode down an elevator, put on yellow ponchos, andlooked around there. It was a tunnel made in the cliffbehind the Falls. There, we only could see the rushingwater from the tunnel, so we were disappointed. Thenwe found a viewpoint at the side of a basin of the Fallsand rushed there. We could now see Niagara Falls infront of us and we were overpowered with the roar and

power of the Falls. Ahuge amount of waterfell from far above us,and the spray of itobscured our view. Isuppose that no onecan bear to be theremore than five min-utes. I was absorbedin taking pictures of it.Once again, we werebadly wet, but so satis-fied. At the souvenirshops, I bought a lotof postcards because Iwanted to tell thisemotion to my friendsin Japan.

We returned the way we passed in the morning.There were trees with red and yellow on the left, aflowing river and two falls on the right. It was a strangescene to me. The Falls in the evening were beautiful.We stopped again and again, and took pictures. As soonas we got back to the American side, we went to HardRock Café, because we were so hungry. The hugemeals and loud rock music gave us a lift. After that, wereturned to Buffalo and got on the bus. I should talkabout in the bus, but it is simple, “sleep.” We were allso tired that we snored away the time in the bus. Weslept all the way back to Boston. This trip becamerefreshment to us. All these things—the power of theFalls, being soaked by them, beautiful nature, and sucha deep sleep—will be precious memories.

by Keiko Koyama

� Semester Book Elective �

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Fall 2001Harvard Square

Harvard Square

H ave you ever been to Harvard Square?Harvard Square is the fourth station fromPark Street on the Red Line. It’s not just

that it is surrounded by the historic buildings ofHarvard University, but you can also get to see moreunusual haircuts and punk fashion than anywhereelse in Boston. In addition, you can hear variouskinds of music played by street musicians, from Jazzto Tango. I went to Harvard Square with my friendson October 21st, and we were surprised at the uniqueand cool people there. Well, let me introduce to yousome of the people that we particularly liked!

by Keiko Koyama, Jin-Soon Lee,& Takahiro Oguri


J. Peter Le Poire (20). We could find himaround Harvard Square station. He seemed abit serious, but he looked nice! He’s there onbreak. He is planning to be a tap dancer.

Jamie (22). She looks a littlewired. She’s a techno musician.She made her clothes herself!

Drummer. He looks young but hisdrumming is fantastic. Look at hisface! He’s confident in his playing.

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Harvard SquareFall 2001

Patricia (20).She’s fromIreland and inBoston for twoweeks to see herboyfriend. Hersmile is so cute.We think itwould mesmerizeyou.

Courtney Smith (16)& Enka Cobain (16).Their message:“Anarchy: We can’tbelieve we just didthis.” They are Punkgirls. We think that’snot their real names.They might like“NIirvana” becausethe singer’s namewas Curt Cobain andhis wife’s name wasCourtney.

Mike Dinge (14), Tyler LaMothe (14), Colin Marcval(14). Their message:Ninja Turtles“Cowabunga, Dudes.”They are three punk boyswho we found in HarvardStation. They like Misfits,Björk and Toxic Narcotic.

We like the backof Courtney’sjacket. It’s written“Misfits.” That’s acool punk band’sname.

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Fall 2001Maine � Comments

The Freeport Tour

F reeport is a big outlet mall that is located inthe state of Maine. As soon as we heard aboutthe tour from CELOP, I decided to join.

Recently it has been cold inBoston, so I wanted to getwinter clothes cheaply andthe tour by bus was $15 only!

On October 6, I and myfriends got together atCELOP at 8:00am, and it tooktwo and a half hours to getthere. In the bus I had a goodtime watching a video sup-plied by Jenn Kay, talkingwith friends or sleeping.When we reached Freeport,there were a lot of parentswith their children and couples with shopping bags inthis beautiful, peaceful country town. I was excited see-ing that scene and couldn’t wait to start shopping.

When I first entered a shop, I was surprised at the

cheap prices. The items were sold about 30-70% off,so I bought a lot unconsciously, though I had decid-ed not to spend much money. The stores—L.L.Bean, The Gap, Ralph Lauren, BananaRepublic, and so on—were crowded. Especially, wewere surprised at the size of L.L. Bean. It was so big,and in there, you could get any kind of outdoor goodsand you wouldn’t be bored if you stayed for hours.

“Time flies.” SuddenlyI found it was 5:00pm and wehad to go back to our bus.When I left there, I washolding many shopping bagsin both hands. Everyone inthe bus seemed to be satis-fied with their shopping.They held a lot of goods,and fell asleep as soon as thebus started back to Boston.

CELOP students comefrom many foreign coun-tries, so most of them might

not have brought so many clothes. This Freeporttour gave them a good opportunity to get clothes thatwill protect them from a cold, cold winter in Boston.In addition, they could appreciate a beautiful autumnlandscape in Maine. It was a nice day!

Takahiro Oguri


Comments from students about their experience at CELOP and in Boston

Three weeks before the end of semester, I could already say that it was a pleasure for me to be a studentat CELOP. I have enjoyed talking with the staff and faculty members I met, because they were verypleasant when they answered many questions I asked them. I particularly want to thank Nicole andGabriela who work at the front desk. I hope that the excellent service in BU continues.

—Honore Sonkwa, Cameroon

Three months are not enough to enjoy Boston. But it was the best time in my life.—Esser Daniel Melul, Venezuela

The friends I met here will always have a special place in my heart.—Carmen Fernandez, Venezuela

Don’t forget your camera when you go to New England, especially in Autumn. All the glorious colorscaptured in pictures will remind you about the great time you had.

—Madina R. Magazova, Uzbekistan

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Store ReviewFall 2001

Twilight Store—“Flyrabbit”

W hat would you like to get as a present foryour birthday, if your birthday is onHalloween? We want to introduce you

to an unusual store, Flyrabbit on Harvard Avenue inAllston, which is small but filledwith a thousand things.

On Harvard Ave. you can finda lot of Asian markets and usedfurniture stores. Sometimes peo-ple feel this street is so boring ormessy. I’m afraid you might missone small, beautiful, uncommonstore. It’s really easy to missbecause at a glimpse the stuff theydisplay in the window is so unfa-miliar that people just pass by.Maybe you will think that it is nota store but just a pile of stuff noteveryone would like. But once you look inside at thefascinating things, you’re going to stay there for two orfour hours. First, before entering you will see a beau-tiful cat that seems to understandhuman language. So, be careful! Irecommend you not to find faultwith her in front of her. She is toonoble to forgive your rudeness. Ireally consider the cat as female,because she wants a lot of atten-tion from the customers. Unlessyou show her your affection shewon’t look at you once. Howabout her owner? Yeah, the girlwith the pink hair and the greattattoos that cover both her armscompletely is the sales person ofthe store. You can see her whenever you visit there.What did you say? You’re scared of the woman?You’re afraid she is going to yell at you because you’restaying there so long? I can say, “don’t worry about it.”She’ll never mind what you’re doing in there for thewhole day. She will give you freedom to enjoy seeingor trying those interesting things. Let’s look inside!

It’s like a storage of treasure island, isn’t it?

First, turn right. There’s a “sunny-baby” woman’sbra, which is shaped as two cups with a baby face likea burning sun. Imagine your eyes become dazzling.How fun it is! Then the travel enters the main course.You’ll see stationery with old Chinese graphics sur-rounded by devils. Also there are ancient Asian hatslike masks, which are embroidered colorfully. On theother side of the store, there are many modern toys to

make skeletons or shining stars.Time flies in there and you forgetwhere you are. Other thingsmake the store eccentric too, suchas uncommon books aboutuncommon accidents, or facts inthe world including horror comicbooks and many stuffed REALanimals. Some look cute and oth-ers look threatening. You canalso find some funny masks, tat-too stickers, 3-dimensional post-cards, accessories and diverseHalloween characters. For exam-

ple, the characters come from the movie “NightmareBefore Christmas,” by Tim Burton and others.

Personally, I love the layout of the store. Thearrangement on the walls, on theceiling and on the floor are beau-tiful. Especially, the cage whichhas a bird on the roof and a girldoll inside is my favorite. Whenyou visit there, I hope you will sayhello to the doll and also tell herto enjoy Halloween. But I reallywonder where the flying rabbitis? What? Did you say it is hid-ing in somewhere undergroundbecause it is afraid of terroristsshowing up on Halloween day?Come on!

by Hee-Jeong Lee & Jin-soon Lee


Three brothers or sisters who have diedone hundred years ago on Halloween.May their spirits be at peace!

There she is! She looks so novel!She seems to be glaring at us.But, she is so lovely if you showyour affection to her.

Have you ever seen such marveloushats as these! They are not masks.Don’t try to hide with these hats!

Awesome! This is one of themasterpieces. Which one?The pumpkin, his spiderring, or his hair? Whatever.

Do you remember on Halloweenday there was the class of pump-kin painting at CELOP? Here aresome of the masterpieces.

Everybody looks proud of

their work. But don’t hide

behind the pumpkin. It couldn’t be a

substitute for your face, even if it

was made by Picasso.

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Fall 2001Halloween

Pumpkin Painting for Halloween

She already finishedtwo pumpkin paint-ings even with glitter-ing colors. Is it goingto become Cinder-ella’s cart at 12o’clock on Halloween?We hope so.

Illustration by AiTojima, fromMargo Downey‘sclass.

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Student WritingFall 2001

Halloweenby Yasmina Zerhouni

I remember when Iwas a child, I used tobe afraid of wolves

because of one storywhich was related to meabout one wolf. It wasabout a little girl who was-n’t nice to her brother.She was jealous, and she

didn’t take care of him.

One night this little girl met a witch who askedher: “What would you like me to make happen?”The little girl had such a bad day with her brotherthat quickly she answered: “I would like you totransform my brother into an animal, because he actslike one.” But the little girl didn’t think about theconsequences. She was thinking of a little animal, apet whom she could play with and give orders to!But her brother was transformed into a wolf!

I don’t know if this story is true or not. Maybemy nurse related it to me to make me act nicer to mybrother! As a conse-quence, I’m stillafraid of wolves!

The writer, from Morocco,is in Margo Friedman’s

high-intermediate/low-advanced writing elec-

tive.

Halloween Partyby Kazuyo Nishida

H alloween is theholiday on thenight of Octo-

ber 31st and only celebrat-ed in the U.S. This wasmy first time to join aHalloween party.

The house was deco-rated like a ghost house:In the entrance, a vampirewho wore a black costumewelcomed us with openarms. While walking up

the entrance way to thehouse, pumpkins, pump-kins, pumpkins. A lot oforange colored pump-kins, which were carvedas human faces, were puton the ground and theirfaces smiled at us. Alsoset up on the way weregravestones, an old

bible, andskeletons.

A man who wore a gorilla costume layin a coffin and he didn’t move or speak andkept calm, even though children spoke tohim and played a trick on him. But sud-denly the gorilla man sat up and surprisedthem by shouting out. The children werescared, but they didn’t go away from himand enjoyed fighting with and speaking tohim. I live with this gorilla man who is 16years old and a member of my host family,and he has worn this costume for six yearson every Halloween night. I certainlythink that he was a main character in thatHalloween party and he really enjoyedhimself as much as the children.

The writer, from Japan, is in Lori Lubeskiand Ellen Yaniv’s low-advanced class.

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Fall 2001Halloween

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Scary Storyby Namy Kim

A long time ago, there were two students inXXX high school. One girl’s name was Julia,who was the smartest in her school. The

other girl’s name was Jennifer, who was always sec-ond.

Jennifer wanted to get higher scores than Julia.Julia and Jennifer had studied after class. One daythey got the results of the test. Jennifer was secondagain. Jennifer hated Julia. After class, they studiedtogether. Suddenly Jennifer told Julia that she want-ed to see the sky. They went near the window.Jennifer pushed Julia outside of the window, and Juliafell down to the ground.

Two months later Jennifer got the highest scorein her high school. She was happy. After class shewanted to study in her classroom. She studied hardin class til she heard a sound. The sound was gettinglouder. She felt scared, so she hid under the desk. Infront of her class the sound stopped. Suddenly, thedoor opened. Jennifer closed her eyes. Almost tenminutes later she opened her eyes. She saw Julia’shead, and it was crying.

The writer, from Korea, is inMargo Friedman’s high-inter-mediate/low-advanced writing

elective.

Halloweenby Julio Alvear

T his story began when Mary was walking inthe night, crossing the park, and sheremembered the history of a bad man that

killed many people in the last year. She felt very bad,and was thinking about what could happen, when shesaw an old man.

At first she thought that something bad wouldhappen, but she saw a friendly face. The man talkedwith her all the time during the trip to her house. Shesometimes remembered the face of the old man, butshe didn’t recognize him for certain.

When she arrived home she told what happenedin the park to her mother, and described the face ofthe man who was walking with her in the park. Hermother suddenly remembered the person that herdaughter had described, and said that he was hergrandfather who died when Mary was a baby. Bothwere very surprised, because the ghost of her grand-father protected her against the bad man in the park.

The writer, from Chile, is in Margo Friedman’shigh-intermediate/low-advanced writing elective.

Illustrations: At left, Ji-Yeon Lee, from ChrisAntonellis‘s class; at right,from www.salem.org.

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Fall 2001Student Writing

She Is . . .by Ai Tojima

O ne day, a manwas walkinghome. When

he stopped to smoke atthe bus stop, he wasspoken to by someone.He looked at the personand he smiled at her asshe worked in the samecompany. He began totalk to her about hiswork as he did every

day. He had loved her since he met her at theircompany, and he hoped that she loved him also.When they talked some minutes, she told him thatshe wanted to speak to him about a serious topic.They decided to walk to the station which was nearthe bus stop. She looked shy and told him that shehad loved him for a long time. He was very sur-prised and glad to hear it.

Time went on for some months, and he becamedepressed about her. She never let him touch her asa lover since they expressed their love for each other.He wondered why and he asked her, but she did notanswer the question. He continually asked her, andfinally she answered “I am not a woman.” He couldnot understand this at first. She continued to speak,“Actually, I look like a woman, but in fact I am aghost. I am so sorry. I was afraid that you wouldlearn the fact and that you would leave me. I amsorry. But I could not say it.” She cried. He wassurprised at the answer. He could not think andcould not say anything.

Now, what is he doing? Did he escape from her?Or did he forget her? I heard from some of myfriends that they have seen him talking to himselfand laughing.

The writer, from Japan, is in Margo Friedman’shigh-intermediate/low-advanced writing elective.

The Truthby Ji-Yeon Lee

O ne day, a photographer is climbing up amountain to take some pictures. Hewants to take a picture of a view of the

mountain on the highest cliff. When he reaches thecliff, he sees a little child and a woman standing onthe cliff’s edge. First of all, he feels strange becausethey look like they are in a dangerous place.However, he thinks the landscape is well matchedwith the mother and child, so he decides to take apicture of it. As soon as he sets up his camera, thechild falls from the cliff. He takes the picture of themoment, and then he goes back home.

The next day, the news tells about the accidentat the mountain, and he knows that the mother isthe killed child’s stepmother. She says that her sonjust accidentally slipped. A few days later, he real-izes that he probably took the moment of an acci-dent; therefore,he develops thefilm. There is thepicture that showsthe child’s facewhen he fell fromthe cliff.

The photog-rapher magnifiesthis picture, thenhe is shocked.There is themother’s smilingface in the pupilsof the child’s eyes.

The writer, from Korea, is in Margo Friedman’shigh-intermediate/low-advanced writing elective.

This personalized CD,which Michael Feldmanmade for each of hisstudents, was the“Textbook” for hisSpeaking/ListeningInformal Englishelective class.

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Student Photo � CDFall 2001

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Fall 2001Puzzles

B. Is the left center circle bigger? A. Focus on the dot in the center and moveyour head backward and forward.

E. Keep staring at the black dot. After a whilethe gray haze around it will appear to shrink. F. Are the horizontal lines parallel or do they slope?

D. How many legs does this elephanthave?

C. Count the black dots.

Optical IllusionsSelected by Esser Daniel Melul

The eyes are a wonderfultool to understand reality.Sometimes, the eyes canhelp us see many thingsaround us, but sometimes itis not so easy. We need tohelp our eyes in many cases.These examples are opticalillusions that can show youthis theory.

Answers are on page 28.

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Student PhotosFall 2001

CELOP AmbassadorsProgram Abroad

•Were you happy with your experience at CELOP?•Would you be interested in helping CELOP get the word out about our

English language programs to people in your home country?

If you answered YES, why not consider becoming a CELOP Ambassador?

Being a CELOP Ambassador is easy and fun! All you have to do is give CELOP materials to officials at your high school, university, and/or place of work in your country, and talk with them about your experience studying English at Boston University. In return for your help, you receive a Certificate

of Recognition from Boston University, identifying you as an official CELOP Ambassador!

If you are interested in becoming a CELOP Ambassador, please visit the Front Desk atCELOP or E-mail us at [email protected]. Thank you for supporting CELOP!

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Warby Munerah Faraj

I saw war on TV, inmovies, heardabout it at school,

and from random peo-ple, but I never thoughtthat it was going to hap-pen to me or to mycountry, until that day,Thursday, the 2nd ofAugust, 1990, whenIraqi soldiers invadedKuwait.

I remember that on this day, my family and I wereeating our breakfast. The telephone rang, and Ipicked it up and there was my father’s working part-ner. He told me that he wanted my father. When myfather talked to him, he told him that he must comeimmediately to work because there was a war. Myfather changed into his military uniform and went towork. This was the last time I saw my father for ninemonths. At the time he left, my father didn’t tell usanything; he just said that he was needed at work andhe had to go to seewhat was happening.So we thought that itwas just a minorproblem. After twohours the Iraqi sol-ders were all aroundthe country; my fami-ly and I went to mygrandmother’s houseto stay. After that,there was no newsfrom my father oranyone who workedwith him. We knewthat he was in prisonin Iraq. All my familywas sad about thisevent. After two

months, the Iraqis agreed to let the Kuwait familiesvisit the prisoners in Iraq, and so we went, me, mymother, my uncle, and my brothers, to see my father.He was very thin and unhealthy, so we brought himgood food: bread, juice, eggs, fish and chicken, andclothes to wear. After seven months, all countriestried to get Kuwait back free. The dreams came true.Kuwait became free on February 25th, 1991. Butthere was a problem: My father hadn’t come back yet.We were very scared. We thought that he was dead.We wondered why he didn’t return. My mothercried every day. After maybe two months, somebodycalled and told us that my father was in the UnitedArab Emirates. We went there but didn’t find him.After that, my uncle phoned us and told us that theIraqi solders freed some of the Kuwaiti prisoners, andmy father was among them. It was the greatest newsI ever got. So we returned to Kuwait to see him.

There are some scenes that I will never forget.Some families didn’t find their brother, son, father,sister, mother or any other relatives that were takento Iraq, and still haven’t come home. They don’tknow if they are alive or not, eating well or not, andthey want an answer to their questions as we wantedours before.

The writer, from Kuwait, is in Lori Lubeskiand Ellen Yaniv’s low-advanced class.

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Frightening Momentsby Perla Guelrud De Pleffer

C an you imagine being in front of threegood-looking young men, each one with agun and pressing their guns in your stom-

ach? This is my real story and I feel it was one of themost frightening moments I had in my life.

It happened to me on a Thursday in June 1995, at1pm, when I arrived home for lunch. I didn’t have aregularly scheduled time to go back to my home forlunch everyday. This Thursday, because my daughterhad just arrived from Minneapolis,we decided to meet at home at 1pm tohave lunch together.

I parked my car in the basement,activated the alarm and started towalk to the elevator. On my way Isaw three good looking young men,well dressed. They looked almostlike my sons. I walked up six stairsand then I was about to open thedoor to enter the hall of the elevatorwhen these three young menpressed their guns against my stom-ach. They told me, “This is a rob-bery, don’t shout. We won’t hurtyou if you do as we tell you. Wewant to go to your apartment.” Ifelt like I was going to faint, becauseI was so cold, my legs felt weak, and I lost control ofmy bladder. They pressured me to open the door soI told them what was happening to me; one of themstarted smiling and told me, “Everybody who hasthree guns pressing into their stomach will urinate.”Also, my hands were cold and shaking, so I couldn’tput the key in the hole to open the door and I askedthem to help me do it.

Finally, we got inside the elevator and they start-ed to ask me who was in the apartment and I toldthem that there was only one person, Carmen, mymaid. They warned me not to scream and to cooper-ate. Therefore, I said that I would open all my clos-

ets, that they could take everything they wanted, butI begged them not to hurt me or the maid. Duringthat moment I started to feel better in my body andmind. I opened the door of the apartment and whenCarmen saw me with these three men and guns shestarted to scream. I put my hands on her mouth andI told her to be quiet, that nothing would happen tous if we behaved the way they wanted.

They stayed almost one hour. During that timethey asked for money so I gave them bolivars and dol-lars. Also they requested jewelry and guns. I toldthem that because only three women were living inthe apartment we didn’t have guns. They also tookcameras, equipment, television, clothes and all the

new things that my daughter hadbrought recently from Minneapolis.

They seated us in the kitchen.We held our hands together andbecause my hands were sweatingand cold, and my face looked pale,Carmen begged me not to faint.One of the guys was sitting in frontof us and he had a gun pointed at us.Because we stayed there for almostone hour we talked and becamefriendly, I said to him, “Do you havea mother?” And he responded,“Yes.” Then I told him, “Imagine Iam your mother.” He said, “Don’tworry, nothing will happen to you ifyou behave well; we will leave verysoon. I will put both of you in the

bathroom and you should stay there for an hour. Iwon’t tie you up, but don’t scream during that time.”

During the time that the three thieves were in myhome I was praying that none of my family or friendswould call me. I also prayed to my daughter tochange her mind and not to come home for lunch.

Even though I was very scared and lost manymaterial things I was lucky that nobody called meduring that hour, none of my children came in andnothing physically happened to me.

The writer, from Venezuela, is in Lori Lubeskiand Ellen Yaniv’s low-advanced class.

September 11, 2001

I t was unusual for me to receive a call at 8:50am

those days. It was a friend calling me about aplane that had crashed into the north tower of

the World Trade Center (WTC). His call turned outto be the beginning of the darkest day in my life inBoston, as it was for millions of other people in thiscountry and around the world. At that time somefriends were sleeping in my apartment for a few days.I was talking with them about the incident in theWTC when one of my friends turned on the televi-sion and tried to find the news channel. As we spoke,we witnessed in disbelief as a second plane appearedand penetrated the south tower. We spent the nextthree hours in total shock because we couldn’t under-stand who had planned this incident, and why terror-ists wanted to kill all those innocent people on boardthe planes and who were working in the WTC.

For me this problem had a great impact becausebefore I came to Boston, I had been working in theemergency medical system in my country for nineyears. I knew what it was like to work in this kind ofdisaster and to try to help people with problems. Inever lost a partner when I worked in the EMS inMexico, but at this moment, I felt sorrowfor all the firefighters from the NYFDRescue and Special OperationsUnits because an incident of thismagnitude causes EMS person-nel from throughout the worldto want to get involved. Manythings and images crossed mymind and I recalled the hugeearthquake that caused a lotof damage in my countrymany years ago. I was a child,but I could see how the build-

ings fell down and howlife was changed formany people in just a fewminutes.

It was terrible whenboth towers collapsed.The images on TV werechaotic and dark. I felt impotence, courage, and sad-ness at the same time because almost all those peo-ple were dead. I had just seen the second tower gethit on the news that morning when the Pentagon wasattacked. I couldn’t believe that this happened a sec-ond time. It was awesome and unforgettable. Mymind was already full of scared, sad, and regretfulthoughts. I can’t describe how my heart and mymind were taken by all those feelings.

I made two calls that day, one of them was to myfriends who live in New York, one of whom wasworking at the United Nations. When I could talk tothem, my mood became better. The second call wasto the American Red Cross to ask how I could help.They asked me what my skills were and I told themthat I was a volunteer in the Mexican Red Cross asan Emergency Medical Technician and also I was amedical doctor in my country. They took my nameand phone number because they already had manypeople helping as volunteers in New York.

The week after the incident was too depressingfor me because I was still keeping all of those

thoughts in my mind and when I tried toforget them by watching TV, all the

TV channels only showed newsabout NY and the hijackers. I

will remember all my life thisincident because I could learnhow our life can be changedin only a few minutes. I hopethese kinds of incidents willnot happen in the future everagain.

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The Girls Festival in Japanby Kikue Sasaki

H inamaturi is agirls’ festivalin Japan. On

March 3rd, Japanese peo-ple celebrate the birth ofgirls and pray for theirfuture happiness.

Hinamaturi is theday on whichHinaningyo, a set ofdolls dressed in ancientcostume, are displayed

together with peach blossoms as decorations becauseMarch is a season of this flower. “Hina” means“cherry blossom” and “Maturi” means “festival.” It isthe reason that we call the girls’ festival Hinamaturi.

Hinaningyo is composed of a king and a queenand their servants. These dolls were made fromwood, silk and paper. Real Hinaningyo is usuallyvery expensive because it is hand made by specialworkmen; however, many parents or grandparentsbuy them for their daughters or granddaughters.

According to an old Japanese custom, when the fam-ily has a girl, her mother’s parents, buy it on her firstHinamaturi.

Hinamaturi is a lot of fun for little girls. Theirparents sometimes hold Hinamaturi parties in theirhouse. They invite relatives, friends, or neighbors.And they have special meals and celebrate the growthof their daughters. Especially, we eat “Hina ricecrackers,” colorful sweets, and drink white sake,which is made of rice and tastes sweet but is a non-alcoholic drink.

For little girls it is a joyful day. I also like my won-derful Hinaningyo and have a good memory ofHinamaturi. When I went to the elementary school,my mother usually held a Hinamaturi party and shemade me a special Hinamaturi cake. It was usuallySaturday afternoon and I invited many friends. I hada special lunch with my friends and sang a Hinamaturisong. This memory is one that I treasure.

Hinamaturi is a wonderful event in Japan. It orig-inated a long time ago and continues on now. Weshould keep it for posterity because it will become atreasure handed down from generation to generation.

The writer, from Japan, is in Lori Lubeskiand Ellen Yaniv’s low-advanced class.

What did you do with your afternoons in the lab?

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Fall 2001Student Writing � Puzzle Answers

Quotations—More Than Words

A dictionary definition for quotations is usually“words from a poem or book that we repeatin our speech or piece of writing.” For me,

this definition is just half the truth. The quotes alsoexpress indirectly but certainly our personal opinions,feelings and emotions in a specific situation.

Usually, we can use the implicit message of aquote to help someone to clarify his ideas. Generallyspeaking, we know that it is easier to resolve theproblems from the outside than when we are insidethem. For this reason, we can try to give good adviceto our families, friends or in some cases, to ourselves.Another specific use of a quote that I have is forromantic purposes. In summary I can say that I use aquote when I want to say something and someoneelse has done it better before me.

These are two of my favorite quotes that I tookfrom some readings during the CELOP fall session.I used the implicit message of these quotes veryoften, and it gave good results. During the time thatI was writing this article, I was hoping that thesequotes could help everyone as they helped me.

The first one is by Richard Nixon: “Those who

hate you don’t win unless you hate them—and thenyou destroy yourself.” For me, the meaning of thisquote is very simple. When someone hates you, hecould do everything at his hands to destroy you, soyou need to be smarter than him and keep calm. If youfall for the temptation of playing the same game ashim, you are condemning yourself to play that gameuntil someone or both lose. During the fall semester,CELOP students could live the terror of the terroristattack on New York City, and the beginning of therecent conflicts. This quote can reflect my personaladvice to the American government not to attackinnocent people in Afghanistan as the terrorists did.

When you are undecided about doing something,think of this quote that my close friend Adrienne gaveto me recently: “Forget regret or life is yours to miss.No other road, no other way—no day but today,” byJonathon Larson. It is not too easy for an internation-al student to feel comfortable in a foreign country. Forsome students, being here is more than an adventure;it is a challenge in their personal and professional life.I left my family and friends to come here. SometimesI feel alone, depressed or just confused about what Iwant to do. Then I realized that I made the best choicethat I ever made in my life. I have the clear idea ofnever regretting the decisions that I make, no matter ifI do not know where I am going to be in the future.

So, when you hear or read a quote, think aboutthat message. Maybe this quote can give you theanswers that you were looking for.

by Esser Daniel Melul


Answers to Optical Illusion Puzzles on page 22

A. Of course not. It is just the visual effect that is produced by the angle of the picture.Your eyes will feel the motionuntil the moment you stop looking at the black dot.

B. No, both are the same size.The visual effect here are the circles that surround each of the center circles.Whenthese outside circles are smaller than the center one, this center circle looks big. On the other hand, when theseoutside circles are bigger than the center one, this center circle looks small.

C. There is not one dot. It is just your eyes that move the black color along the image.

D. This elephant has 4 legs as usual.The clue is to look from the top to the bottom of the elephant.

E. After a while, the gray haze around it will appear to shrink.

F. Absolutely yes, the horizontal lines are parallel.The clue is to look line by line and you will be able to see that eachline is parallel to the others.

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CELOP—An Enriching Experience

M y college graduation was on May 24,2001. The next day I flew from Venezuelato Boston. I was looking for an English

course where I could improve my English skills. Tomy surprise, I found much more than that.

I came to Boston at the beginning of the summerseason. The weather was as warm as the Venezuelantropical weather, so I really did not have many prob-lems with the weather during summer. I could enjoymany trips and activities all around Boston, such as SixFlags Park, Revere Beach, the Boston Common, theCharles River, Newbury Street and Quincy Market.Also, I went with my roommate, who was a real base-ball fan, to a Red Sox baseball game and played soccerat the Boston University Field with some CELOPfriends. These were some of the wonderful summermemories.

I met a lot of people during the summer course.Some of them are still my friends, whether or not theycontinued at CELOP for the fall session. I usuallywent out with Latin American students, from allaround South America, Central America and alsoSpain. Although I was going out with many Spanishspeaking people, I also met a lot of people from Asia,Europe and Africa. The mix of cultures that I livedwith here was amazing. It was hard to imagine howdifferent and similar we were in many subjects.

The differences in languages, behaviors and cul-tures decrease faster than I thought. By the third week,almost everyone knows each other, even if they speakdifferent languages or are different ages. For example,in my first week here, my Japanese roommate and Ilooked at each other as completely strange persons.However during the semester, we talked a lot and tomy surprise, his thoughts were very similar to mine.The motivations, goals, expectations, girl problemsand many other things were the same for both of us.

Between the summer course and fall course, wehad a complete month to enjoy Boston. No classes,good weather and friends were enough to have fun.

During that time, I went to some discos, cafes, moviesand friends’ meetings. Also, I used that time to pre-pare myself for the TOEFL test and fill out applica-tions for Master’s degree programs.

At the end of my fun vacation, I started the fallsemester at CELOP. I moved to a new dormitory andhad a different schedule and new friends. Almost every-thing was new. On the other hand, this semester will bemy last in CELOP, so I am enjoying myself as much asI can. Also, I am using this time to meet more Americanstudents. The reason is very simple, I have fallen in lovewith the American lifestyle. In some way, I need tolearn much more about the American students’ cultureand how they work, if I decide to stay in the USA.

During the time that I have been in Boston, Inoted two important facts. The first one is the con-trast between the college system in the United Statesand Venezuela. It is amazing how the American stu-dents learn, how helpful the teachers are with stu-dents, the huge list of options that is offered in theUnited States, and the students’ free lifestyle duringtheir college years.

On the other hand, the college system in Venezuelais more conservative. We study a strict content programin each degree in order to receive a diploma. We canchoose as many electives as the American students do,but our list of undergraduate degrees is shorter than theAmericans have all around the United States. InVenezuela it is very common to study in the same citywhere you were born, so we live in the same house asour parents. We do not have dorms and fraternities. TheAmerican college system is, in some way, completely dif-ferent from the Venezuelan.

The second fact that I could understand is thehuge list of benefits of being in an English Programlike CELOP. I look back and think that CELOP is notjust a place where someone can learn English, but isalso a group of experiences that is helping me to growup in many areas of my professional and personal life.What am I learning at CELOP? English skills, manydifferent cultures, many interesting people, how tolive far from home on my own, and how to understandand live with my strengths and weakness. For all thesereasons, I certainly say “CELOP is an enriching expe-rience.” And of course, I will remember this programfor the rest of my life.

by Esser Daniel Melul


Hassen Sfar and Raya Abid

H assen Sfar and RayaAbid are two very

good friends who haveknown each other for a verylong time. I decided to inter-view them because they arevery funny, interesting andalso because they are comingfrom a country where I’vebeen once, but not enoughpeople know this fantasticcountry, Tunisia. They willtell us everything aboutTunisia and after that we willbe able to say somethingabout this amazing country.

Where do you come from and where is your country?

Hello, we are Hassen and Raya and we come fromTunisia. Tunisia is a country which is located in thenorth of Africa. Tunisia is near France and Italy.

What is specific to your country?

Our country is as I said in the north of Africa and theweather is almost always warm and beautiful.Another thing which is interesting in Tunisia is thefact that there are very popular places like Djerba orHammamet which are two towns in Tunisia that arevery touristy. We also can say that Tunisia is a Muslimcountry where the religion is very important.

What do you like the most there?

The thing that we like the most in Tunisia is theweather and especially the way of thinking of the peo-ple. I especially love this country in summer because theweather is always very hot, so we can go to the beachevery day. Because the weather is very sunny and nice,people are very generous and we have a lot of parties.

As a foreign student, how do you see the UnitedStates and especially BU?

We think that the United States is a good country tostudy in and especially Boston because there are a lot ofstudents here. About BU we also can say that it’s agood university and that is the reason why we want to

study here. The mentality herein BU is very attractive becauseeveryone is very friendly andmore than this, everyone wantsto succeed so we know when tostudy and when we can have fun.

Can you tell us why youdecided to come to CELOP?

The first reason why we wantedto come to CELOP is that wewanted to improve our Englishand study in the United States.Another reason is we wanted tomeet new friends from other cul-tures, and we can say that weare. Here at CELOP wherethere are more than 50 countriesrepresented. It’s very interesting.All of the people here are veryopen minded.

What are thebiggest differencesbetween Americaand your country?

We can say that it’simpossible to makea comparisonbetween these twocountries becausethis is a fish and abird if we werecomparing ani-mals. Nothing isthe same. TheUnited States is avery huge country,and the mentalityis totally different.These two coun-tries are totallydifferent. One,Tunisia, is a coun-try under devel-oped and the U.S.is a developedcountry.

by Edouard Burrus


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The Boston Celtics

T his was our first timeat the Fleet Center fora basketball game

between the Boston Celtics andthe Seattle Supersonics Wewent with seven friends, who arestudying at CELOP also. We

arrived at the Fleet Center and tried to find ourplaces. After we found them, the environmentbecame fun. We were making jokes and laughing.Some of us used the free soda and hotdog tickets thatwe got at CELOP when we bought the tickets to thegame.

The match started after the singing of the nation-

al anthem. The whole game was exciting. During thefirst two quarters both teams had only a difference ofaround 4 to 8 points between them. It was very closeand fast-paced. At half-time there was a contestwhere about five chosen spectators at the game thatnight had a chance to sink a basketball. If they got itright in, they could win an NBA T-shirt.Unfortunately no one could do it. I don’t know whynot anybody else could. We also noticed at half-timethat there were three big screens on the scoreboardwith the names of the different English schools whichwere present. We were excited because we couldread, “Welcome CELOP” on the big screen. For usthis was awesome because after that happened, we allbecame really excited. It was great!

We started to drink beer (moderately) duringthe third and fourth quarters, which were excellentbecause the Boston Celtics began to raise the scoreand mostly had 10 points over the Supersonics. Itwas so exciting. The final score was 104 – 94 and ourteam won. After the game all of us decided go to cel-ebrate at a bar and spend more time together, but thatis another story . . .

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I Love My Classesby Peansook Manrakrean

B ravo! This is “themelting pot ofAmerica.” Our

class consists of “TheGang of 8 Nations.” I ama Thai, the others comefrom Venezuela, Mexico,Taiwan, South Korea,France, Azerbaijan, andGreece. Every morningthe classroom is crowded

by students from “different walks of life” who have awide range of experiences and viewpoints. Our coreclass teacher, Mr. Gregg Singer, is super. The way heconducts our class is very innovative. He has a lot ofwidespread experiences. My classmates and I are alwaysadmiring him for telling us a lot of new things in manyaspects of life, not just about Business English.

Our class is very lively. Sometimes it looks crazyand chaotic. Almost every student wanted to ask ques-tions at the same time. This made the classroom turnout to be more of a birdcage. Nobody listened.Everybody wanted to dis-cuss. Imagine how Greggsolved this problem. It wasquite usual that he put us ina queue in order to get hisanswers.

The other attractivepoint of our class is the wide range of the students’ages. It was not easy that Gregg had to deal with theinnocence of young students, who are only 17-18 yearsold, who had zero background in business, and wereforced to understand the huge topics in finance andaccounting, equity and capital market, marketing andfurthermore, in only 12 weeks.

I love this mixture of our class! Questions fromthe naive refreshed me and made me reflect on theamazing ideas. At the same time the questions and

the experiences from the experienced studentsenriched me through the marvelous creative ideas.It’s just awesome.

My schedule for 5 days a week is filled up by theother two electives classes: the Writing Workshop,Pool 4, and ESL in Museums: understandingAmerican history and culture. I have not had the stu-dent life for such a long period. However, in thesetwo elective classes, I had to force myself to be muchmore disciplined to deliver the writing assignmentson every Monday. But I did survive and enjoyedgoing out every weekend.

The museum class teacher, Ms. Michele Cauch,is a sweet, beautiful lady with a unique technique inconducting the class. We learned a lot aboutAmerican culture, especially for me who came froman Asian country and have such a small backgroundabout American history.

If this essay is written in acceptable English, Ihave to gratefully honor my Writing Workshopteacher, Ms. Catherine Howell. She is really a toughteacher in pursuing us to work hard to improve ourwriting ability. I love her toughness!

I arrived in Boston on the 20th of September, ninedays after September 11,2001. I planned to comehere the 12th of September,but I could not do so,because Logan Airport wasclosed. That event was sucha terrible and tragic thingwhich had never happenedin our world. The wholeworld was shaky and fright-

ened. It was even very difficult for me to convincemy family to agree with my plan for still coming here,though I insisted. I have my faith in the security ofthe peaceful world and want to be one of the peopleto show that we remain!

I want to confirm my family and my close friendsthat I have made the right decision coming here. Ilove my classes!

The writer, from Thailand, is in Gregg Singer’sadvanced-level business English class.

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My Identity by Takehisa Nitta

U ntil I came to the United States, I did notthink much about my identity by race ornationality. I was born in Japan and have

called it home for more than twenty years. It was notnecessary to think about my identity seriously becauseeverywhere in Japan there are Japanese. Despite thesmall number of foreigners that live there, Japan is stilla racially homogeneous nation with low immigrationrates. In the past, the Koreans and Chinese that cameto Japan for trade and colonial reasons stayed, butwhile maintaining their Korean or Chinese identity,they also assimilated into Japanese culture and society.I just thought of myself as one of many Japanese.That was enough at the time. I was a middle-classJapanese man, living in the southwest part of Japanwith my family. Like most other Japanese, I went toelementary school through university. Since I came tothe United States, however, I have become aware ofmy identity and how my identity might change if Idecide to go back to Japan.

My sense of identity was forced upon me by thepresence of so many other international students andpeople here. I recognized that we are all so differentfrom one another, but most importantly, from theAmericans. These differences are not only those of raceand nationality; they are inherent in the way we thinkabout things. For me, the most prominent example ishow the Japanese say “sorry” at almost every occasionto mean such things as “thank you” and “excuse me,”and convey a general sense of politeness. ManyAmericans are blunt and say whatever they feel or thinkdirectly. The Japanese say what they mean indirectly,using the term “sorry” in English the same way it isused in Japanese, although it has a very different mean-ing.

Even though I have become aware of my Japaneseidentity since I came to the United States, that identi-ty is changing. By living here now for fourteenmonths, I already see several differences not only inthe way I talk, but also in the way I think about myself.When I came to the United States, I felt like an alien.I still feel that way sometimes, but now I care about itless than before because, as much as I am different,

there are always so many other people around that aredifferent too. Also, when I say “sorry” to Americansin situations where Americans would not, they tell methat I am a typical Japanese. After a while, I startedconsciously changing my words to stop using “sorry”for other meanings. These small changes added up tobigger changes, until I noticed that the biggest changewas my mentality in my identity and the way Iapproach certain situations. For example, Japanesesociety is cooperative and community based. I couldask for help whenever I had a problem. In the UnitedStates, if I ask someone for help, they will helpwhether or not they are Japanese, but the attitude isnot the same and I find myself asking much less oftenthan before. On the one hand, I want to assert myJapanese identity, but, on the other, I am becomingmore “American” in that the individual in me is com-ing out more often. Whether I want to or not, I ampicking up elements of American culture.

While I am here in the United States, thesechanges are not often felt, and are becoming a part ofwho I am. If I go back to Japan, however, the differ-ences would be noticeable to my friends and family,because they knew me as I was and I would also seehow I have changed and how this change affects howI see myself. Now it would be difficult for me toimagine the kind of society where there are not somany different kinds of people and cultures. Becauseof my experience in the United States and the changesin my identity, I am now more open to recognizingdifferences in personality even among the Japanese.Also, I might feel my identity is not only that of aJapanese man, but also that of a man who has hadmany experiences abroad. Every person whom I metin the United States has a different identity, and all ofthose people contributed to my current identity. If Iwant to know them and who they are, I need to findout about myself and who I am. I am still proud ofbeing Japanese, and it still makes up a big part of whoI am, but now I am more than that, whether I want tobe or not. It has changed me, but it has also strength-ened my identity. I am no longer just a middle-classJapanese man from southwest Japan; I am someonewho has been out in the world and it has defined whoI am, both to myself and to others.

The writer, from Japan, is in Judith Dan and Alex Oliveira’s advanced class.

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Sweet Lemonby Luisa Rubiano

W e always say, “Why does something likethis happen to me ?” or “I always havebad luck!” Even worse, we ask God to

be impartial! But after some time, we look back andfind that yesterday’s problem is a joke today. The factis that we’ll find lots of obstacles in our way, but alsowe’ll have different options to choose as an answer tothese problems. I am absolutely sure that I mayderive some benefit from the misfortune.

I always wanted to be a vet. Since I was child, I

have cared about animal rights, and it didn’t matter ifthe animal was an ant or an elephant. I was ready tofight against the world to rescue any bug. I grew upwith dogs, cats, and farm animals around me, so Irealized that animals get sick, and I desired to curethem. So I chose veterinary medicine, even thoughmy mother disapproved.

Becoming a vet wasn’t easy work. Every singlesemester I had problems with some of the subjects. Inmy second year I failed anatomy. I was severelydepressed and angry because many of my classmatespassed the course by cheating, while I had studiedhard and not gone out or had fun. I asked myselfwhat I had done wrong. Later on I realized that I hadbeen a responsible student, but I had gotten overanx-ious about the test, so I took the examination again,

Earthquakeby Dogan Hananel

T hat night Iwas on anisland called

“Buyukada” which weused to go to everysummer. I rememberthat the weather waswarm and I was talkingand spending time withmy friends.

When I got backhome, it was already 2am.I was so tired that I

went to bed directly. Then I felt a sudden shaking andheard a strange noise. First I thought that there was athief in the house but then I realized that it was anearthquake. I didn’t know what to do. I was shocked.I sat on my bed. I looked around my room. All mybelongings came alive and they started to move slow-ly. I closed my eyes and tried to calm down. The

shaking stopped. Although it was only for 52 seconds,I felt like it went on forever. With great panic, mydad told us to leave the house at once. All of ourneighbors were outside as well. I could see the fear intheir eyes. We tried to stay together. I looked at thesky and saw an endless sea of stars which looked likedspectators who were watching our drama. We wereoutside all night and the sunrise announced the endof a terrible night.

I knew it wasn’t the end. Everything was juststarting.

The writer, from Turkey, is in Jacquie LoConte’s high-intermediate class.

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and I passed it. Before finishing university, my sur-gery professor asked me to be his assistant in his ownhospital. He was a friend of my anatomy professor’s,so he knew about my good behavior as a student. Butmy classmates who used to cheat on their examina-tions didn’t find jobs even long after they had gottentheir degree.

Everyone has had a terrible romantic experience.I am not an exception. So I fell in love with some“special” guy. He made lots of promises, and Ibelieved him. Then he left me. Why did God do thisto me? Why did I have to suffer as if I were the worstperson in the world? I definitely had bad luck! Thatwas what I thought. After the breakup, I decided togo far away from my unhappiness. I went to London,and I studied English. Then I worked at a veryfamous animal hospital, and I met interesting people.

It was the best thing that ever happened to me in mywhole life! So I thank my “special” ex-boyfriend forhaving been heartless and blind. Because of him, Iwent to another continent, I made valuable friends,and I discovered how short and beautiful days can be.

Today, I believe that almost every problem has asolution, but if I couldn’t find that solution, I would-n’t stop to think about answers because, if there is noanswer to the problem, searching will have been awaste of time. So even if things turn out badly, wemust be patient because in the end we will find peaceand happiness in compensation. My grandfatheralways says, “You should say, what a sweet lemoninstead of what a bitter apple.”

The writer, from Colombia, is in Ramon Valenzuela’s low-advanced class.

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Communicating Effectivelyby Sister Olga Yaqob

A fter the tragicevents onSeptember 11,

many people asked mehow I am still studyinghere as a Christian andwoman from the MiddleEast. My goal in cominghere was to graduate witha Master’s degree, butafter what happened Istill want to use the valu-

able gift that the Most Merciful God has given me,namely good communication with different peoplehere in CELOP as a student with the teachers, staffand students from different religions, in the CatholicCenter at BU where I share the Christian spirituallife; and in Sacred Heart Convent where I live aChristian human life. Today I am just trying toexpress my heartfelt gratitude to my God and a spe-cial thanks for all of those whom I have met.

Communication is a nice word. Everybody seemsto be for it. Just as they are for love and peace.Communication has been called the lifeline of love.Its root, “com,” refers to an act of sharing. It impliesthat two or more persons now have something incommon because it has been shared. In its most pro-found sense, communication is a sharing of the per-sons themselves. In our ongoing communication, wehave this in common: ourselves. It is not always asmooth and painless thing, this communication. Forthis reason we are going to understand that:

The crisis of our time, as we are beginning slowly andpainfully to perceive, is a crisis not of the hands, but of thehearts. (Archibald Macleish)

The secret that we keep hidden inside usbecomes the poison that makes us sick. JohnBerryman wrote: “We are as sick as we are secret.” Iknow it is hard, but as a human being we need toshare with others. We are all pilgrims, beings inprocess. Each one of us must march to a personal

drummer, climb our personal mountains, struggle fora destiny that is ours alone. We are pilgrims on ourway to a promised land. It seems that we would haveto be, above all, courageous and very tough because alarge world and a fuller life await us, but we have togrow into it by stretching to make our day.

These avenues to human communication are lifetasks. They are not simple things that can be doneonce and for all times to come. Life is a process, agradual growth process. We can accomplish our lifetasks only gradually. The path to communicate is abridge to be crossed, not a corner to be turned.“What you and I will become in the end will be justmore and more of what we are deciding and trying tobe right now.” (John Powell s.j.) Each of us is anoriginal by God. There are no carbon copies any-where, but “no one can develop freely in this worldand find a full life without feeling understood by atleast one person.” (Dr. Paul Tournier)

This is the encounter as a special relationshipbetween two persons. It implies that a communica-tion between persons has been achieved. In theencounter the other individual no longer is a personof impersonality, a “he” or “she,” but becomes for me“I,” a sensitized, correlative “thou,” as e.e. cummingswrites: “One’s not half two. It is two are halves ofone.” Then the Lord God said: “It is not good forman to be alone.” (Genesis 2:18)

There are two convictions that are essential pre-requisites for loving communication. The first is thatwe must think of ourselves as gifts to be given. Thesecond is that we must regard others as a gift. Theexchange of these gifts is communication. It is clear-ly an act of gracious hospitality to welcome anotherinto our confidence. Likewise, it is gracious of othersto take us into the place where they live and work,and into their secret rooms, but this will happen onlyif communication is seen as an act of love. The beau-ty of our communication will be a shared celebrationof our differences. (John Powell s.j.) Certainly to beenriched by this sharing, we need a special time forspeaking and listening in our communicating; theyare to a relationship what blood is to the body. Whenthe flow of blood stops, the body dies. When dia-logue stops, love dies and resentment within hearts

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is born, but dialogue can restore a dead relationship.Indeed this is the miracle of dialogue. (Reuel Howe,The Miracle of Dialogue) There are no winners andlosers in this kind of relationship. Dialogue is essen-tially an act of the purest love and the secret of stay-ing in a relationship.

At the same time we’ll be careful with semanticsand other problems in this communication. We knowthat the words are signs. Unfortunately, different reali-ties can be symbolized by the same word. A sign maybe different for different people. There is also the prob-lem of prejudice. It is obvious that prejudice can invadeand undermine communication. Another obstacle tocommunication is imagination. If something is not saidexplicitly, imagination tends to fill in all the missingdetails. There is a truth here that is applicable to com-munication. A misunderstanding, an argument, a rashjudgment can easily interrupt the flow of good com-munication. A crisis is a test of one’s determination, butit is highly important to re-erect the lines of communi-cation, to keep trying. The relationship will forever bestronger and more durable because of these efforts andthis commitment. (John Powell s.j.)

A bird does not sing because it has an answer, it

sings because it has a song. I believe that we don’tlook for communication because we need it, we lookfor it because it is the nature of being human, not asa thing for using, but as an act of love for the life ofhumanity. It was a great gift from the Lord Godwhen He created us. “Little deeds of kindness, littlewords of love, help to make Earth happy like theHeaven above.” When we find this kind of relation-ship, we’ll understand the saying of e.e.cummings:

Your slightest look will easily open my heart, even thoughI have closed myself like a fist. I open petal by petal asthe first rose skillfully and mysteriously caressed by thespring.

This is my experience with all those friendswhom I have met. The relationship with them makesmy human experience rich because we understoodtogether the meaning of “love your neighbor as your-self” that makes me live with hope. What I lived ascommunicating effectively, I wrote here that you willjoin with me in the fellowship that I have. Lord God,I wrote this in order that your joy may be complete.

The writer, from Iraq, is in Doreen Miller’s high-intermediate class.

Recipe for KimcheeA Traditional Korean Foodby Sunwha-Lim

Ingredients

cabbage cucumberred pepper scallionsoysters anchovy pastegarlic gingerpowdered red pepper

1. Slice the vegetables.

2. Preserve them in salt for one day.

3. Then mix the vegetables togetherwith the oysters, anchovy paste,garlic, red pepper and powderedred pepper.

4. Put the Kimchee into largeearthen jars to allow it to fermentfor several days.

5. Eat, and enjoy!

The chef, from Korea, is in Jeff Di Iuglioand Roselyn Frank’s low-intermediate class.

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Fall 2001Student Survey

S eventy-two CELOP students answered our sur-vey, 39 men and 33 women. They representmany different countries:

Where does your best friend at BU come from?

As you all know, to have good friends is essential forinternational students, because sometimes they arecloser than our own family. In addition, this is a goodchance to become familiar with foreign friends. Lookat that! They are lucky friends to get American friends.We envy you guys so much! But remember, it’s moreimportant to constantly keep in contact with each otherfor your friendship.

Which one of the cafeterias on campus is yourfavorite?

The winner was West Campus. In the second place,we got GSU. CELOP students prefer West Campusbecause it’s the nearest place to eat, and we only haveone hour to eat. The Towers, which is the farthest, iswhere the fewest people go to eat. We don’t know howthese people manage this with a short lunch time.

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What do you like to do in the evening?

It’s hard to believe, but both males and females agreeon one thing: “We like to spend our evening withfriends.” Usually, we play sports and go to movies andnightclubs with friends, but at the same time we haveour school responsibilities, so sometimes we prefer todo homework in the evening.

What do you like to do on the weekend?

The most important activities for the men were spend-ing time sleeping and going to nightclubs, but thewomen preferred traveling and seeing new places. Abig percentage spend their time in many other activ-ities.

What is your favorite club?

Can you believe that most people didn’t answer thisquestion? We thought everybody wants to go to clubs,but these answers seem to show the opposite. Femalesespecially are a mystery; we don’t know what they like.

CELOP students’ favorite club is Embassy, even thoughthe graphics show that “other” is a more common choiceoverall because we are from diferent cultures and wehave different opinions about this. However, the answersshow that people love Embassy.

What is your favorite website?

In the Internet world, it seems Yahoo is the best place tospend our time, looking for something or just for writ-ing e-mail. Hotmail and MSN are good options, too,but we see that Yahoo is the most used. The wideoptions that it offers is what students are looking for.

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Fall 2001Class Pictures

Chris Antonellis’ class: Raya Bent Mohamed Abid, Altynshash Cherdabayeva, Shin Chul Choi, Jae SeungJeon, Ji-Yeon Lee, Hassan Ben Moncef Sfar, Yen-Tai Su, Khadijeh Talaee (Sorur) Rad, Yuya Tomose,Taichiro Yamamoto.

Jamie Beaton & Marsha Dean’s class: Aya Ando, Byoung-Chul Bahn, Ting-Yang Chang, Young Joon(William) Cho, Rossana Figuera, Jose Lares, Shu-Ling Lee, Naruhito Matsumoto, Kei Nagase, SilviaStachova.

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Barbara Bliss & Nicole Jalbert’s class: Maan Al-Khozaim, Daniel Capeluto, Carla Cavalcante, SilviaHerszkopf, Chih-Hao (Ian) Hsu, Jeong-Hyun (Liz) Kim, Jun-Yong Lee, Yi-Wen Lin, Louis-GaryLissade, Madina Magazova, Jung-Woo (John) Park, Mayuko Takahashi, Maria Valles, Vilasinee (Nan)Vataniyobol, Hui-Ya Yang.

Jill Brand’s class: Young Suk Chung, Miguel Angel Cota Vargas, Cesar Estremadoyro, Takako Fujita, SuKang Jeong, Keiko Koyama, Glareh Nekui, Ryota Ono, So-Yoon Park, Daniela Pellizzari_piazzetta,Sang Aea Won, Mikako Yamasaki, Saro Zenini.

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Pamela Couch & Joe Pettigrew’s class: Yoshimitsu Kawata, Helena Murad, Chan-Il Park, EduardoPeniche, Eduardo (Lalo) Pfirter, Remus Pricopie, Thamer Shaker, Yuki Suzuki.

Ron Clark’s class: Emine (Nur) Baser, Ji-Youn Bong, Adriana Marcela Diaz de Sandi de Romero, RaulFerreiro Cabo, Seonyoung Ha, Jun Hyung Kim, Guido Malpartida Fernandez, Bader Mustafawi, LuisNunez Acosta, Jeong-Gun Ryu, Korlan Sharipbayeva, Tsung-Tai Wang, Ying (Tina) Wang.

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Betty D’Angelo’s class: Mariam Dum, Fahrefi Fachry, Anthony Hirschfeld, Chin-Jui Huang, Jung Jo,Nalinrat Kittikumpolrat, Kar Hang Kwan, Shih-Chieh Liao, Nazli Ozdemir, Anna Semina, SurawechTelan, David Weidman, Junhwa Yang, Akouassi Yao.

Marsha Dean’s class: Yu Chen, Joonghyun Cho, Farhad Fathibitaraf, Shizuka Furuya, Eriko Hamada,Yasuo Iga, Yayoi Kurokawa, Taylan Matkap, Jungeun Park, Arif Ugur, Sangwon You.

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Jeff Di Iuglio & Roselyn Frank’s class: Abdullah Al-Fagham, Javier Bencomo Corral, Yu-Ling Chen,Xing-Ee Han, Jung Jun Hwang, Sun Hwa Lim, Gina Litchi, Johanna Montes, Giscard Honore SonkwaMonthe, Chen Sun, Shu-Cheng Wang.

Reneé Delatizky & Joanne Fox’s class: Inbal Ben Zaken, Edouard Burrus, I-Wen Chiu, Marine Clavreux,Carlos Frascatore, Lina Mendoza, Andres Polania, Garisbel Santamaria Alonso, Aya Takaku, Aya Takaku,Tasia Wibisono, Darlyn Yangpichit.

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Judy Di Leo & Susan Vik’s class: Virginia Barrios, Toni Farah, Yoshie Hirabayashi, Suk Jin Ko, Ling-Chun Liu, Natalia Pinchuk, Juanita Rubiano Arbelaez, Yeon Joo Seo, Luisana Urdaneta, Yanyan Wang,Jiaqi Wu, Miran Yi.

Margo Downey’s class: Khelil Ben Mohamed Abid, Violeta Canaan, Christian Cooley Gutierrez,Mayumi Hasegawa, Seong Joo Hong, Hie-Sol Kim, Sung Kim, Joaquin Mejla, Sayumi Murataka,Takahiro Oguri, Jiao Qing, Ayumu Sasaki, Ai Tojima.

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Shelley Fishman’s class: Julio Alvear Rosenthal, Gloria Barney, Kazim Caliskan, Yoon Young (Yuna)Chang, Dong Hyun (Ryan) Kim, Chien (Aaron) Lu, Francisco Medina Mora, Nadege Orbe, Juan SalazarRestrepo, Fumihiro Sugita, Satorn Topothai, Yusuf Wibisono.

Michael Feldman & Cynthia Flamm’s class: Lyazzat Baldekova, Seyit Bas, Mehdi Benbrahim, JavierFernandez Anaya, Covadonga Gonzalez, Carlos Henao Gonzalez, Hyo-Won Jeong, Lib Lee, Shan Li,Yeong Ju Park, Pongketsarit Ratasap, Cheuk-Yin Tse.

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Doug Kohn’s class: Bisrat Abebe, Maryam Al-Farhan, Ahmad Assiri, Young Gul (Andrew) Cho, YuliyaKrylova, Young-uk Lew, Chia-Cheng Lu, Hee Kyoung Nam, Kerem Onger, Luis Fernando Perez.

Shirley Gould’s class: Milagro Acosta De Nunez, Carmen Fernandez Gallardo, Carlos GuiloffRosenberg, Sangmin Hahn, Kazuno Inoue, Won Jung (Masa) Kim, Yuka Kudo, Jun Min (Jasmin) Lee,Unelcan Sezer, Yuichi Ueda, Meng-Ru (Bob) Yu.

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John Kopec & Margo Miller’s class: Marat Akchulakov, Mohamad Al-Amoudi, Alice Aurengo, HaticeEla, Hee-Jeong Lee, Jin_soon Lee, Sina Lee, Yi-Tso Lin, Sang Chun Park, So Hyun Park.

George Krikorian’s class: Irmar Barraez Curiel, Arif Bas, Murat Dosmukhambetov, Ruben FloresRodriguez, Ryuma Haga, Hee Eun (Ira) Lee, Hyan-Been Lim, Jinwen (Dennis) Pan, Jae Yeon (Lena)Park, Akifumi Saruga, Rosana Soleman, Masaki Sugiyama, Pracha (Joe) Thongdee.

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Jacquie LoConte & Adrianne Saltz’s class: Abdulrahman Alkhieli, Min Kyung Back, Abdulrahman El-Khereiji, Young Ock Ham, Dogan Hananel, Masako Harima, Sang Bong Lee, Junichiro Waide, OlkaYaqob, Ayami Yoshida, Yasmina Zerhouni.

Dorothy Lynde & Amelia Onorato’s class: Yuka Higashide, Maki Ichimura, Ghazaleh Nekui, Hyun-JooOh, Kyung-Min Park, Si-Hyang Park, Akiko Saida, Francis Tamiru, Cristina Uribe, Can Ustunbas,Chia-Tsu Yao, Lucas Yau.

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Sammi Eckstut & Bob Maguire’s class: Hsin Hsien Chiang, Driss Dounzar, Chiao-Yi Fang, Angela MariaGilberto, Afrasiyab Gozal, Nahyma Hepo, Nicole-Nsenga Kyalwe, Jose Mendoza Hernandez, ValiaMujica, Isaias Nizri, Joaquin Piedra Buena, Vladimir Sanchez, Bowei Wang, Yuan-Hung Wen.

Irene Maksymjuk & Linda Werbner’s class: Alwaleed Al-Sheikh, Kaori Aoyagi, Betul Cam, A Jin Cho,Won Seok Choi, Jung-Soo (Mia) Han, Seung-Min (Kenny) Kang, Vladimir Kozyrev, Marc-AntoineLemieux, Yoshitaka Terashima, Buncha Thongthai, Atsushi Yatsuda, Ken Yokokawa, A Ri Yoon.

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Patricia Peknik’s class: Yasuko Abe, Kumphol Chartphaich, Ana Chiu, Alize Dinckok, Monica GarciaRincon, Eun Young Kim, Emmanuelle Shahar, Huan-Chao Tseng, Theresa Wu, Yoon Hee Yang, ValeriaZakharova, Marisabel Zelaya Salas.

Judith Dan & Alex Oliveira’s class: Yun-Han Chen, Adrianto Djokosoetono, Hyungseok Kim, KyungLee, Takehisa Nitta, Fardan Fauzan Nurfaizi, Luis Puerta, Ji Won Ryoo, Hye-Jin Shim, Hema MaliniSundaresha, Enrique Travecedo, Chris Tseng, Adrian Wicaksono.

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Joe Pettigrew & Pamela Couch’s class: Yvonne Aljure, Juan Alverde Gonzalez, Won Joon Cho, JuanFigura Gutierrez, Soichiro Furukawa, Victor Garcia Tafuri, Ji Hee Ha, Fernando Jimenez, Pei-Yun Tang,Tomoaki Yamaguchi.

Bob Maguire & Michelle Remaud’s class: Kuo-Huei Chiang, Alejandro Funes Rodriguez, Jorge Israel, SoYoung Park, Young-Il Park, Etsuko Sato, Hyun Jung Shim, Mitsuko Tani, Wei Wang.

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Gail Fernandez & Pam Steeves’ class: Mariana Flores, Nam Yi Kim, Yoo Shin Kim, Yoh Kuroki, SaeJung Lee, Seok Young Lee, Anuar Naratau, Sandra Ramirez, Jessica Schimdt, Akiko Sekiyama, MehmetUcdogan, Rie Wada.

Gregg Singer’s class: Alicia Caldera, Palawat Chuephanich, Hatem Khayyat, Peansook Manrakrean,Olivier Marquais, Esser Melul, Victor Olea, Li-Jen Peng, Hasan Sadigli, Maria Skandali, MarcosVucovich, Eun Jung Yoo, Hwan Chul (Thomas) Yoo.

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Alex Oliveira & Maria Tomeho-Palermino’s class: Dauren Albani, Hye Young Chung, Maciej Debski,Juan Delfino, Ronit Fertman Silberstein, Jorge Enrique Fuentes, Anna Goriounova, Shuji Ichijo, IsmailIsmail Emen, Daniela Izquierdo, Manju James, Daniel Marcovitz, Laura Perello Bonnelly, Juan SanchisGimon.

Ramon Valenzuela’s class: Felipe Cabrera-Bahamon, Giancarla Heredia, Oswaldo Hernandez, Ki ChulJeon, Juan Pablo Rojas, Luisa Fernanda Rubiano Arbelaez, Dawei (David) Shi, Pawel Wojcik.

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Lori Lubeski & Ellen Yaniv’s class: Liang-Fan Chang, Eun Jung Cho, Munerah Faraj, Carlos EnriqueGarcia, Perla Guelrud De Pfeffer, Eun-Cho Kim, Jung Shin Lim, Kazuyo Nishida, Mayami Oyanagi,Hyeon Yong Park, Kikue Sasaki, Takehiro Sato, Kaan Turegun, Seo-Young Yun.

Elective Class Teachers(not pictured in core class photos)

Shelley Bertolino

Meredith Clark

Lynn Bonesteel Amanda Brown

John de Szendeffy Margo Friedman

Kathy McCartan Patrick McGuire

Barbara Ishikura

Jim Kaplan Mary Sullivan

Michele CauchLinda CoyneGinny DrislaneJoyce HoCatherine HowellDavid KramerRobert LallyDoreen MillerMahtab RezvaniHeather Sundahl

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Fall 2001Faculty Interviews

Gregg Singer

T o interview Gregg, we went to this studentrestaurant across the street from CELOP, the

Buick Street Café. During the lunch, we had afriendly conversation, but we didn’t do the interview.We did this just after lunch, and it reveals a passion-ate life, including amazing experiences that he had.

Gregg, who is now a CELOP teacher for 20years, was born in New York and moved to Ohiowhen he was two, where hewent to high school and to theuniversity. He had a Bachelor’sdegree and Master’s degree inliterature. After that, he wentto Afghanistan for two yearsand then came back to the USAwhere he worked as an actor forone year. After realizing thatthis was not a good job for him,he went to live in Japan for twoyears and taught there. On hisreturn to the US he got anoth-er Master’s degree in linguisticsand got a job at HarvardUniversity, which finally didn’tsuit him, so he moved to BU, ormore precisely, to CELOP.

Can you tell us about your family?

Well, my father is dead. My mother is now 86 yearsold and lives 750 miles away from here, so I worryabout her. I wonder what will happen, but luckily she’svery healthy. When my parents met, my mother wasan actress and my father a boxer, but I never knewthem as an actress or a boxer. I also have a brother whois a store manager. I’m not married but I have livedwith the same woman for 20 years, so it’s quite likemarriage, and I have a daughter, whom you met acouple of minutes ago.

Yes, by the way she is very cute! (Daniel)

Yes, I’m glad you said that!

Do you remember something especially interestingthat happened at CELOP?

Yes, twelve years ago during the Lebanese civil war, avery rich Lebanese man gave scholarships to Lebanesestudents to come to BU, so there were previously 300 stu-dents at CELOP, and suddenly there were 700, 400 ofwhom were Lebanese. In my class I had 15 students and9 were called Mohamed. Every night on TV, you sawimages of the Lebanese war with people yelling on thescreen, and the morning after I went in my class and sawexactly the same kind of faces. It was weird.

So you went to Afghanistan for a while. Why?

I went there for three main reasons: it’s an interestingcountry, I wanted to help people there and also it’s a

good point to have on your c.v.

What struck you the mostwhen you went there?

Going to Afghanistan was likegoing into the Bible just becausepeople look like that and the civi-lization was really primitive. Thefirst day I was there, a few daysbefore Christmas, I saw a manwith a pregnant woman on a don-key. It was such a typical scene.

How was your life there?

It was a very primitive life with-out any modern comfort. I also vis-ited other places, such as India, SriLanka and Burma, and as I didn’thave much money to travel, Istayed in the cheapest hotels withthe poorest people. It was fun. I

learned very much there.

What is your feeling toward the war?

I spent a lot of time there traveling in different placesand they have had a civil war for 25 years, so youalways feel sorry when you read in the newspapers thatsome places have been destroyed. My first feeling aboutthe war would be to worry that Afghanistan will bedestroyed. You know, they are the weakest and poorestpeople in the world. They really have nothing.

So what do you think about the actual eventsbetween the USA and Afghanistan?

First, I know that none of the men who hijacked planes

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were Afghans, and somewhat I sympathize withOsama Bin Laden because I don’t think that the USshould be supporting governments in the Middle East,and you know we also used to support Iraq, so I under-stand why they are angry. I don’t agree with that.

What do you regret in your life? Are there thingsthat you would have loved to do and you couldn’t?

Actually, it’s funny because the answer is no. I mean Ihave been so lucky in my life. Everything I ever

wanted to do, I’ve been able to do and I never had verymuch money.

Do you have plans for the future?

Not really, you know I have a really great job, I love it.It’s really fun because I never have to sit at a desk. I havea flexible schedule and I have the chance to meet youngpeople from all over the world. To me it’s very exciting toteach. I like it very much. I’m really happy in my life.

Kathy McCartan

How long have you been teaching at CELOP?

I’ve been teaching at CELOP for one year. I juststarted here last fall.

Why did you decide to teach English?

I really like working with people from different coun-tries and there aren’t many jobs in the U.S.A. and Ilike teaching, so I decided toteach English.

What did you do before youcame to CELOP?

Before I came to CELOP, Ilived in Texas for about 6months and before that I livedin Las Vegas for one year. Itaught English and I helpedpeople learn English to get jobsin hotels.

I have heard you have a pilot’slicense. How did you get thelicense? And why?

I have wanted to be a pilot sinceI was 14 years old. I went to amilitary university. It’s for theNavy. It’s called the Naval

Academy. While I was in the Navy school, my eyesightgot bad. Your eyesight needs to be perfect in the militaryschool. Because I wanted to be in planes, I became anavigator. Also I decided to get a pilot’s license. I don’tuse it now, because it’s a very expensive hobby.

What was the most impressive adventure in yourflying?

The scariest thing was when I used to be in a very bigplane with four engines, a cargo plane, C-130. Wewere going to the ocean. We almost touched the oceanwhen one of the engines caught on fire. It was reallyscary. Because there were two pilots and the flight engi-neer, I helped the pilot with the equipment. He wasgetting coffee. The alarms were going on and we had to

drop a lot of gasoline, because wewere too heavy to land the plane.So I was thinking, “We are going toblow up,” but we didn’t. We werefine. We landed and we were safe.

I’ve heard you have livedmany places. Can you tell ussome memorable experiences?

Yes, I’ve lived many places like Mex-ico, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Ger-many, France, North Africa, LasVegas, Orlando, and places like that.I moved a lot, because of my hus-band’s job. He builds electric powerplants. It’s always a project whichlasts one year to two years.

I lived in Hawaii when I was in theNavy for three years. That’s myfavorite place because it’s very cul-turally mixed. And I lived in

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Africa for a couple of years. Life there was very diffi-cult because Africa is not a very developed country. Itwas like camping because we didn’t have runningwater and electricity. I think the most difficult thingwas that there were so many different languages.

Do you have any other different challenges youwant to try?

One of my big challenges is to try to have my own busi-ness, but I don’t know much about it. My husbandkeeps telling me, “ Why don’t you start your own busi-ness? Run your own school.”

Can you tell us about your family?

I don’t have any kids, just my husband and me. Wedon’t have plan to have children, because both of us are

the babies of our family.

What do you like to do in your free time?

I really like to read and I also love to watch movies. Inthe last year, I have been interested in reading books byauthors who are not from the United States, like Japan-ese and Arabic. Also I love to hike. And I love to swimoutside, but it’s hard to do in Boston. I miss that a lot.

Do you have any messages that you want to sharewith CELOP students?

“Enjoy yourselves,” and “Enjoy learning languages.”It’s a lot of work, but if you can, try to enjoy as much asyou can, especially meeting people from other places. Itmakes our world a smaller world.

Gabriella Campozanoby Sorur Talaee Rad

G abriella was born inNew York City, but her

parents are from Ecuador inSouth America. She said thatshe has been living here for allher life. She has two sons.Gabriella graduated fromSuffolk University in 1995.Her major was Sociology. Sheis fluent in two languages,Spanish and English. Shestarted working with womenand children in a Health andHuman Services program inTexas, where she lived forthree years. After that shecame back to Boston. She hadworked for Student’s Health Services in B.U.Gabriella said that she had liked to practice Spanishmore, but she couldn’t in her last job. That is whyone of her friends talked her into coming to CELOP

and filled the application out. She told me that nowshe could practice Spanish every day. Gabriella hasbeen working here since September. She gets on wellwith her colleagues, especially Nicole. She believesNicole is nice, kind, and friendly.

Gabriella is interested indoing many activities in herfree time. She likes movies,going shopping, walking, anddecorating her house.Moreover, she is really intocooking by herself. Herfavorite food is Thai food,fried bananas, shrimp, andchicken. She prefers to spendtime with her best friend. Herfavorite movies are funny andromantic. Gabriella likes totravel a lot. She has been toTexas, Florida, and New YorkCity.

She is thinking of graduate school for her future.

The writer, from Iran, is in Chris Antonellis’s high-intermediate class.

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Staff InterviewsFall 2001

Nancy Cho

I n the fall semester we could find a new face in theCELOP staff, Nancy Cho. Because she is the

only Asian staff member (full-time), we were verycurious to know about her and decided to interviewher about her background. Our first impression wasgreat because she was friendly, charming and patient.When we began to talk toher about her backgroundwe found out how muchexperience she has had as anAcademic Advisor. If anystudent is interested inentering university, she’llhelp them.

Could you introduce your-self? For example, whereare you from and what didyou study?

How far do you want togo? (ha ha) I was born inKorea and came to NewYork when I was 10 yearsold. I went to undergrad-uate premedical school in N.Y. and switched my majorto accounting. I worked for four years as a CertifiedPublic Accountant, and then afterward I went to NewYork University for my Master’s in Education. BeforeI came to Boston, I was a teacher in a public high schoolteaching ESL.

Could you explain to us what an Academic Advisoris?

As an Academic Advisor I monitor student attendanceand make sure students are attending class. I also helpstudents choose colleges to apply to and help them withtheir applications. Sometimes I help students registerfor the TOEFL and SAT.

What was your motivation to work in CELOP?

My motivation . . . ok. Well, like I said, I was a highschool ESL teacher. I was working with internationalstudents, and they used to come to me to review theirapplications for college, including their essay. This ismore interesting than what I was doing as a teacher—except I don’t have to prepare lesson plans, readhomework, or come up with tasks. As Academic Advi-sor at CELOP, it’s all the stuff that I have been doingexcept for the teaching part.

Are you busier now than before?

Yes, because I’m constantly talking with people. (ha ha)I’ve met over 90 students so far. I think I have a lot of

interaction with lot of peopleout of the program also.

It is an interesting thingthat in this semester theAcademic Advisor is Asian?Do you think your beingAsian helped you get thisjob?

I don’t think so. As a matter afact, when I checked out theCELOP web site, I thoughtthat they already had a Japan-ese speaker and other peoplefrom other nationalities work-ing here. I think Crystal, theother Academic Advisor, spokeJapanese. It’s common for someKoreans to come and talk withme in Korean or English. It’sfine. I don’t care, either lan-guage. CELOP expects me tohelp you, to advise you, to get

you the information as soon as possible because youhave a deadline to meet and if I give wrong informa-tion, you will lose an opportunity. I guess part of myjob is to give you the information quickly.

What do you expect to get from this job?

My plans are to go out of Boston someday. I don’tknow where, which country! But, I’m interested ingoing to another place living there and teaching there.I’m working with international people now atCELOP. I’m interested in intercultural education. Soyes, I think this job is part of what I want to do.

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Nicole Buchholzby Yuya Tomose and Shin Chul Choi

W e interviewed Nicole Lynn Buchholz. She istwenty-six years old, and she comes from

Minnesota, which is in the is midwestof the USA. She came to Bostonbecause her friend recommended hercoming here. Her favorite places ofBoston are the North End and theCharles River. Especially she likes tosee sailboats on the Charles River.She works at the front desk, and shehas been working at CELOP sinceMay. She likes to participate in anyactivitity with students, but she does-n’t like dust, so sometimes she cleansher office. Before she came toCELOP, she was an undergraduatestudent who studied Spanish. Weasked her, “What do you like to do inyour free time?” She answered, “Ilike to do every dance including Salsaand Swing dance.” Dancing is herbiggest hobby. She isn’t married yet.Probably she will marry in five years.She has never been to Japan or

Korea, but she plans to go only to Korea, because herone Korean friend in CELOP invited her.

Yuya, from Japan, and Shin Chul, from Korea, are in Chris Antonellis’s high-intermediate class.

How many people do you advise in a week?

Sometimes there’ll be like, 5 people a day, sometimes 10 peo-ple, depending on how much time that I spend with them.

What do you want the students to prepare beforethey come to talk to you?

I think it’s hard for an 18-year-old to think abouthis/her major, because like I said, I switched my majorwhen I was in college. So, it’s really hard to make adecision. Anyway, I think when they come in to see meI expect them to have some information about whatthey want to do in their lives. My job is to give themdifferent options and different schools and give them a

different point of view. If they don’t know the name ofa school, it’s o.k., but I need to know if they want apublic, private, woman’s school, in a town, small city,big city, east coast, west coast, weather, etc.

There are so many students who have differentbackgrounds. How can you prepare for all of thedifferent questions they ask?

I have experienced living in one country and coming to adifferent one, so I think I know a lot about adjusting to anew culture. I can relate to that since I have done that.And also, because I was an ESL teacher and went toNYU where the students came from all over the place. Iam used to meeting people from different cultures.

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Laura Elisabeth Rumbleyby Raya Abid & Altynshash Cherdabayeva

L aura was born in North Kingston, RhodeIsland. She has traveled a lot so far, because her

father worked for the Navy. She has been in Spain,France, Morocco, Turkey, and Hungary. She alsospeaks Spanish and French as second languages. Herancestors were from France, Germany, Ireland,Wales and Hungary, so she has origins from almostthe whole world.

However, Laura hasbeen working in CELOPfor 4.5 years. She is par-ticularly working in themarketing and admissionoffice. It was hard to fixan appointment with herbecause she’s so busy.Laura helps the studentsenter CELOP. Beforeshe worked in CELOP,she worked in a Refugeeand ResettlementOrganization in Raleigh,North Carolina. Shesaid, “I like my jobbecause I always meetnew people, so it’s notmonotonous. But I don’tlike paper and e-mailwork, the things that Ihave to do a lot.”

Laura got marriedlast summer. Her hus-band is a journalist. She said that he is a good cook.This is interesting because she thinks that she does-n’t cook as well as he does. In addition, she said thatshe liked good tasting food.

In her free time, Laura likes to read, hike, andplay with her cat. She also likes watching independ-ent movies because they are realistic. Laura also likesto take black and white pictures with the camera that

was a gift from her husband, when she graduatedwith a Master’s of Education degree from the Schoolfor International Training in Vermont.

In the future, she’s going to have big changes.This semester is her last one in CELOP. Next year,she’ll be starting a new job in the U.S. Department ofState. In the beginning, she’ll have training for twomonths in Washington, D.C. After that, she’ll prob-ably work outside the U.S.

Finally, she said that she thanked life for havinggood health, a good family, a good husband, good

friends and a good job. When we interviewed her, wealso saw that she’s a very happy and optimistic per-son!

Raya, from Tunisia, and Altynshash, from Kazakhstan,are in Chris Antonellis’s high-intermediate class.

Raya, Laura, and Altynshash in Laura’s CELOP office.

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John de Szendeffyby Jaeseung Jeon & Taichiro Yamamoto

T here are a lot of staff people in CELOP. Weinterviewed the

Multimedia LanguageLab Coordinator, Johnde Szendeffy. Johndesigns home pages forCELOP, and teachesWeb Development forthe students of High Cand Low D. He lives inSharon, which is southof Boston. He comesto CELOP by T. Ittakes about an hour.He likes his job verymuch, because he canenjoy freedom.

John was born inNew Jersey but movedto Arizona when he wasvery young. He graduated from Northern ArizonaUniversity and got his Master’s Degree from B.U.After that, he studied in Paris in 1990. He started toteach English in CELOP in 1994, and two yearslater, he changed to work in the labs. He wrote abook. The title is For Here or To Go? He told us thatbook doesn’t make much money, but it’s good toimprove English skills. He recommended the bookfor our English skills. His favorite hobby is makingwood furniture. He showed us his home page.There was a lot of nice hand-madefurniture. He took woodworkingclasses when he was in grade schooland high school. He was very inter-ested in that. After he graduatedfrom the university, he started tomake wood furniture. In addition,John likes to hike. He used to playtennis and soccer, but doesn’t like towatch sports on TV.

Lastly, he has gone to many foreign

countries. He went to Mexico many times when he livedin Arizona. He also went to Canada and many countriesof Europe and will go to Turkey this semester.

He married Linda in 1995. She is an Italian-American. They have one daughter. Her name is

Audrey. She is 18-months-old now. When he does-n’t work, he spends most of the time fixing his house,making furniture, and playing with his daughter. Sheis very cute. She looks like John. We saw the picturetaken of his daughter playing on the lawn. The back-ground of the picture, John’s lawn, was so beautiful.There were a lot of fallen leaves. John told us thatleaves are beautiful, but they make it hard to clean hislawn. His house was built 150 years ago, so there aremany places that have to be fixed. This is all of the

story that we heard from John. Wethought that he was a taciturn person.However he made a good impressionon us. We were very happy to inter-view John.

Jaeseung, from Korea, and Taichiro, from Japan, are in Chris Antonellis’s

high-intermediate class.

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Jenn Kay Koschby Sue Yen-Tai & Ji-Yeon Lee

D o you know Jenn Kay? She has worked atCELOP for four years. Now, she plans

CELOP activities, such asthe CELOP book club,organizing trips, and conver-sation exchange. She alsomakes the CELOP calendarevery week. Today, we inter-viewed her about her job,career, interests, and futureplans. When we entered herroom, she was typing some-thing. As soon as we startedthe interview, she said, “I’mnervous,” so we were laugh-ing because we were nervoustoo. We think she was wiseto break our distance.

First of all, what she likes the most about her jobis meeting people from other counties and makingnew friends. Her greatest experience at CELOP wasseeing new experiences of people who have not beenin Boston before.

If next time you have a chance to visit her roomyou can see a lot of pictures that are from students.She explained that students keep in touch with hereven though they have already left CELOP. Wethink that she is very popular with students. Weasked “You’re charming, so we guess that you’re pop-ular with students?” She laughed and told us thatone time, a boy had come to her room and had askedher, “Would you mind going to dinner with me?”She said, “You know, I’m older than you . . . ”

Jenn Kay is from New Jersey. She has oneyounger sister, two brothers and one step brother.She showed us her family picture, which looked great.Jenn Kay likes to read mystery books. Recently, sheread O Jerusalem which was written by Laurie R.King, who is her favorite author. She also likes to goto museums and concerts in her free time.

Jenn Kay has lived in Boston for nine years. Weasked, “How did you find your job in CELOP?”Before Jenn Kay came to CELOP, she was a studentat Emerson College. After she graduated from col-lege, she worked as a temp at Boston University.While she was working as a temp, she decided towork at CELOP because she really likes educational

jobs. We also asked, “Doyou have any future plans?”She told us that now she isengaged to her fiance fortwo years. He is gentle,cautious, and careful andlike a family man, so shewill be married to him nextsummer. Jenn Kay said “Ilove Boston where there is ayoung population. I camehere, found this job, andmet my boyfriend. Bostonis an exciting, interestingand historic city. I’d like tolive in Boston forever.”

Sue, from Taiwan, and Ji-Yeon, from Korea, are in Chris Antonellis’s high-intermediate class.

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Fall 2001Student Worker Interview

Aliana Piñeiro

Where do you come from?

I was born in Boston, but my father’s from Spain andmy mother’s half Filipino and half American.

How long have you been at B.U.?

It’s my first year studying here.

I heard that you lived inthe dorm when you wereyoung.

My mom was working atCELOP, helping the fresh-man. I lived there for 11years, from when I wasone. Afterwards, I visitedSpain with my father inthe summer. I went withmy sister and stayed withmy grandmother, but onlya few times.

How was your childhood atB.U.?

I liked it a lot. There wereonly older people, but theywere very nice with me.They were playing withme, taking care of me,which I liked. But, therewas one girl my age. Shewas on the West Campus,the same as me, and she was the only friend I had,apart from the friends from my classes. Because I livedin the dorms very young, I didn’t have friends of myage or a real neighborhood. It didn’t really bother me.There was always something to do. At that time, I wasin a day care center for children at BU. Afterwards Iwas at school in Brighton.

How did people see you when you lived at B.U.?

The other people were surprised to see me living oncampus at such a young age, but as I said, they all tookcare of me and were very nice, so there wasn’t a prob-lem.

How do you see B.U., now that you have beenstudying here compared to when you lived here?

Now that I’m studying at BU, I feel very comfortable.I know all the places, and where everything is, andI’m living in the same dorm where I lived with mymom, in a room which is all arranged already andvery nice, so it’s quite like home. The place where Ilived changed, so it doesn’t really remind me of any-thing, but there are some memories of course.

What’s your opinion of B.U. after such a long timeliving here?

I recommend it, because I think the area is very nice,but the food is always the same,the choices of programs arevery good and very prestigious.But there are some inconven-iences. In my opinion, theschool is too focused on money,that is, the important people,like the presidents. Before,they didn’t have as muchmoney as now, and now thatthey own a lot of Common-wealth Avenue and manyshops, they are very focused onthat. Now it’s very hard to getin, especially this year, becauseof the competition with otherschools, and the rank is veryhigh, but it’s worth it.

Would you like to live in anormal house?

Yes, I would have liked to livein a normal house as a child,for the neighborhood and tohave a life like everyone else.But I have good memories.

What do you like and not like about B.U.?

Well, now I’m living on West Campus. The disad-vantage is there are 600 students, and it’s full. I can’thave a lot of very close friends, because every year someare leaving and don’t stay for long. But I have theopportunity to know, even for a short time, a lot of peo-ple. And I like the opportunity that BU is giving us alot of choices.

by Emmanulle Shahar


The College of Arts and Scienceswith the Back Bay skyline beyond.

Students studying in the café of thenew School of Management building.

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Images of B.U.Fall 2001

Didn’t you want to change universities to studyafter living so long in the same place?

Actually, after living at BU, I didn’t want to stay, butbecause of all the opportunities which are given by BUand the fact that I didn’t know exactly what I wantedto do, it was the best choice. Other reasons are that Ididn’t want to go too far from home, and also becausemy mom is working here, it’s free! But now I regret it.I would have liked to go somewhere else.

What’s your best memory from here?

Younger, I went with my sister and a friend to playoutside in the snow, and after a while, many other stu-dents came, and played with us, and we all made asnowman all together. It was so nice and very funny,and I will never forget it.

I heard you’re working at CELOP. What do you dohere, exactly?

I’ m helping Jenn Kay. I’m organizing student activi-ties and helping with the decorations. Giving adviceand showing some places to the students when they arelost.

Do you do some other activity or a job apart fromCELOP?

Well, CELOP is my only job, because I don’t haveenough time to do more, but in my free time I’ m acheerleader and doing a lot of gymnastics and aerobics.I started in high school and I’ m still doing it. It’s reallynice. I would like to add some Italian classes for later inmy free time, because I want to study a lot of languagesfor my international relations classes.

Images of B.U.

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Fall 2001Movie Review

T his imaginative computer-animated movie,“Monsters, Inc.” is the latest film from Disney

and Pixar following “Toy Story,” “A Bug’s Life” and“Toy Story 2.” Ilike these kinds ofDisney movies verymuch and I havealready watched allof them. In thosemovies, the charac-ters are so cute andhave very expressivefaces—more thanreal humans.Whenever Iwatched thesemovies, I have beenmoved and satisfied.

The beginningof “Monsters, Inc.”is in a funny mon-ster world where variousmonsters live. The maincharacters of this story areSulley, who is covered withblue fur with purple spots,and his best friend andcoworker, Mike, who is agreen, one-eyed monster.They work in Monster,Inc., a company that refinesscreams of children as ener-gy. Sulley’s job is scaringchildren who are in their

beds at midnight, and Mike is his assistant. They usea door in order to enter the children’s rooms in thehuman world every night to scare children. It is for-bidden for humans to come into the monster world.But one night, Sulley let Boo, who is a cute younggirl, into their world by accident, and she soon startsto like her new friends Sulley and Mike. On theother hand, the two monsters feel she is troublesomeat first. But after their coworker and rival, Randall,who is a monster with eight legs and purple skin andhas a chameleon-like ability to blend into his sur-roundings, carries off Boo, they try to regain her.Then the two monsters and a human child’s adven-ture starts.

In one remarkable scene, Sulley terrifies Boo byaccident. So Boo isscared of him, just asshe is scared ofRandall. WhenRandall kidnappedher, she was veryafraid of him. Sulleybegins to feel quitesad because all of asudden he realizesthat his job was justto scare children.When I watchedthis scene, I felt verysad, because hisexpression stimulat-ed my heart directly.After that accident,

Sully tries to recover Boo’sconfidence in him.

I think a lot of adultshaven’t seen “Monsters,Inc.” yet, because this movieis made for children. But it isnot only for children. If youhaven’t seen it yet, youshould run to the movie the-ater to watch it. When youwatch it, you can return toyour childhood and have asnug feeling.

Monsters, Inc.Reviewed by

Takahiro Oguiri, Semester Book Elective

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Movie ReviewFall 2001

CAST

Ben Stiller as Dereck ZoolanderChristine Taylor as Matilda JeffriesWill Ferrel as MugatuOwen Wilson as Hansel

Y ou did not see“Zoolander”? So, run as

fast as you can to the closesttheater! You will really have agood time while seeing one ofthe funniest comedies of theyear!

This movie follows theworld of a famous and empty-headed male model, Dereck“Zoolander,” as he discoversthe horrifying secret: there areno male models that live overthe age of 30! As his careerdeclines because of the arrivalof a new rival, Hansel, Dereckis of two minds: go back to hisroots—i.e., a small family—oraccept a new deal with alunatic fashion designer:Mugatu. What Dereck does-

n’t know is that Mugatu wants to take advantage ofhim by brainwashing him to assassinate the primeminister of Malaysia who threatens to outlaw thechild labor that is making Mugatu a lot of money.But, thanks to the help of Matilda, a smart TimesMagazine journalist, who understands everythingabout Mugatu’s bad intentions, Dereck will work itout. She will hide with him in the least expectedplace he could hide: Hansel’s house! Hansel is asdumb as Dereck so they end up getting along verywell and he also becomes Dereck’s real ally.

This movie is simply hilarious! Even if the maincharacters, Dereck and Hansel, are brainless, they arereally endearing and you support them in their mis-sion which is quite impossible for them, since they

don’t even know what a com-puter is, and when they areasked to take a file from acomputer, they just try toopen it as if it was a commonpiece of furniture. It also car-icatures the fashion world in adramatically funny way.Notably, we will rememberthe scene when three dimwit-ted male models, Dereck’sfriends, go up in flames afteran oil fight in a gas stationbecause one of them lights acigarette!

I really enjoyed watchingthis movie not only because Ilaughed for ninety minutes,but also because this moviehas wonderful acting.

In one word, “Zoolander”is amazing.

ZoolanderReviewed by

Marine Clavreux, Semester Book Elective

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Fall 2001Faculty List

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

Chris Antonellis

Jamie Beaton

Shelley Bertolino

Barbara Bliss

Lynn Bonesteel

Jill Brand

Amanda Brown

Michele Cauch

Meredith Clark

Ron Clark

Pamela Couch

Linda Coyne

Betty D’Angelo

Judith Dan

Marsha Dean

Renee Delatizky

John de Szendeffy

Jeff Di Iuglio

Judith Di Leo

Margo Downey

Ginny Drislane

Sammi Eckstut

Michael Feldman

Gail Fernandez

Shelley Fishman

Cynthia Flamm

Joanne Fox

Roselynn Frank

Margo Friedman

Shirley Gould

Joyce Ho

Catherine Howell

Barbara Ishikura

Nicole Jalbert

James Kaplan

Doug Kohn

John Kopec

David Kramer

George Krikorian

Robert Lally

Jacquie LoConte

Lori Lubeski

Dorothy Lynde

Bob Maguire

Irene Maksymjuk

Kathy McCartan

Patrick McGuire

Doreen Miller

Margo Miller

Alex Oliveira

Amelia Onorato

Patricia Peknik

Joe Pettigrew

Carol Piñeiro

Michelle Remaud

Mahtab Rezvani

Adrianne Saltz

Gregg Singer

Pam Steeves

Mary Sullivan

Heather Sundahl

Maria Tomeho-Palermino

Ramon Valenzuela

Susan Vik

Linda Werbner

Ellen Yaniv

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Staff ListFall 2001

Carol Allen

Associate Director, Student Services<[email protected]>

John de Szendeffy

Multimedia LanguageLab Coordinator, SIC Lecturer<[email protected]>

Marcella Framondi

Admissions Officer<[email protected]>

Jenn Kay Kosch

Student Life Coordinator<[email protected]>

Helen Reynolds

Administrative Assistant<[email protected]>

Lesley Andrews

Lab Assistant<[email protected]>

Fabiola Framondi

Senior Staff Assistant<[email protected]>

Nicole Jalbert

Administrative Assistant,Academic Programs<[email protected]>

Bruce Rindler

Associate Director,Academic Programs<[email protected]>

Laura Rumbley

Administrator,Marketing & Admissions<[email protected]>

Margot Valdivia

Director<[email protected]>

Miriam Fawcett

Assistant Director, Administration<[email protected]>

Jonathan white

Technical Coordinator<[email protected]>

Nancy Cho

Academic Advisor<[email protected]>

Alicia Radl

Staff Coodinator<[email protected]>

Nicole Buchholz

Front Desk<[email protected]>

Erin Johnston

Staff Coordinator,Academic Programs<[email protected]>

Soo Overbeck

Intern, Student Services<[email protected]>

Gabriella Campozano

Program Coordinator<[email protected]>

Greg Eisenhauer

“Ike”Teaching Associate<[email protected]>

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Fall 2001CELOP Alumni Website Fall 2001

Stay in touch with your CELOP classmates and CELOPGo to the CELOP Web site “Alumni” section www.bu.edu/celop

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

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