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Contents
Contents •
Introduction to CELOP, by Bruce Rindler . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Credits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Photos–Student activities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
My Boston, by Munkhzue Sukhbaatar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Countries represented at CELOP Fall 2000 . . . . . . . . . . 6
My Favorite Restaurant, by Conchita Marcellan . . . . . 7
Photos–Fall 2000 class pictures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
CELOP Ambassadors Abroad Program . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Illustration, by Yuki Takahashi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .26
On the Blackout Night, by Yuki Takahashi . . . . . . . . . . 27
The Tell Tale Heart–An Ending, by Yasuko Fujii . . . . . 28
The Ghost in the Shell, by Rafael Ulloa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
The Cat on the Tricycle, by Rafael Ulloa . . . . . . . . . . . . .30
Spooky World, by Jun Kondo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .30
Photos–Students celebrating Halloween . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Students speak up about what they like . . . . . . . . . . . . .32
Notes from your classmates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Faculty of CELOP. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Staff of CELOP. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .35
Alumni connection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .36
Photos–First Place contest winner; Halloween . . . . . . 36
F A L L2000 • Introduction
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Congratulations on completing your English program. We hope you haveenjoyed your three months at CELOP and learned more English than youthought was possible. This fall we have had more than 500 students from 54
different countries. We have greatly enjoyed having each and every one of you atCELOP. For those of you who are returning to school or jobs, we wish you the bestof luck and will certainly miss you. For those of you who are returning to CELOP foranother semester, have a great holiday break and we’ll see you in January.
Bruce RindlerAssociate Director for Academic Programs
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Please send all correspondence regarding the Semester Book to John de Szendeffy.
CELOP890 CommonwealthAvenue Boston, MA 02215Phone: 617 353-4870<[email protected]>
CELOP Semester BookFALL 2000
All material © Center for English Language and Orientation Programs, Boston University, 2000. [v.2.0]
This is the second 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. The Semester Book can be downloadedfrom the CELOP Alumni Web page as an Adobe Acrobat Reader document. www.bu.edu/celop
Eating out at an Italian restaurant on Beacon Street.
Photo Editor Sheri Rosenzweig
Staff Photographers Jenny Lynch, Hiroyo Saito,Lesley Andrews
Distribution Jenny Lynch
Contributors Jenn Kay Kosch, Bruce Rindler,Laura Rumbley
Layout John de Szendeffy, Erin Johnston
Editors John de Szendeffy, Erin Johnston
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Amin (right), from ShellyFishman’s class, withfriends Juan, Pepe, andMiguel in Times Square,New York City.
“Just Girls” CELOP party. Howard Johnson's Hotel “Lava Bar.”
Emi, Sandra, andSung-Hee in Salemon a field trip withChris Antonellis’sMid C class.
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Dinner at a Middle Eastern restau-rant on Beacon Street in Brookline.Hend, Marina, Monica, and Jessica.
Photo Contest Runner Up. Top: Angie;Middle: Csamu, Tetsuja; Bottom: Alex,Zakaria, Jin-Ho.
Photo by Emi Sakamoto from ChrisAntonellis's Mid C class.
F A L L2000 • Student Writing • Countries
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MY BOSTONThe Most Romantic Place In The City
by Munkhzue Sukhbaatar
Boston Common is the most romanticplace in the city. It is the smallnature among the high buildings in
the center city. There are many trees, beau-tiful flowers, green lawns and some birds.Also there are many squirrels. Some of themhave beautiful tails, some have little, ugly
tails. I like to see how they hide their food(nuts). I think their front legs work verydexterously and quickly. Before I came toBoston I had never seen so many squirrels inone place. I like to sit down in the greenlawn and read something or do homeworkwhen it is sunny. I heard in the autumn alltrees change their color. I haven’t seen ityet.
This student, from Mongolia, is in Amelia Onorato’s Mid-C class.
S t u d e n t s c o m e f r o m 5 5 c o u n t r i e sFALL 2000
AlbaniaAngolaArgentinaAustraliaAzerbaijanBelgiumBrazilChileChina, People’s RepublicColombiaCosta RicaCroatiaCyprusDominican RepublicEcuadorFranceGermanyGreeceGuinea
HaitiHong KongIcelandIndonesiaIranIsraelItalyJapanKazakhstanKorea, Republic ofKuwaitKyrgyzstanLatviaLebanonLithuaniaMexicoMongoliaMoroccoNicaragua
PanamaQatar, State ofRomaniaRussiaSaudi ArabiaSenegalSpainSri LankaSwitzerlandTaiwan, R.o.C.ThailandTunisiaTurkeyUkraineUnited Arab EmiratesUSAVenezuela
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My Favorite Restaurantby Conchita Marcellan
In this paragraph I will speak about myfavorite restaurant here in Boston. Thename of the place is Sofia’s. When I am
inside this place I am thinking that I am inSpain.
Sofia’s has four floors. In the first floor,there is the restaurant, where you can eattypical Spanish food (for example: tortilla depatata, tapas, crema catalana, jamon, pancon tomate), and you can drink Spanishwines and if you prefer French champagne.
In the second and third floors you have adisco. You can dance to Latin Music. Andif you love dancing, somebody invites you todance with him. So, you can learn how todance to Latin music. In the last floor, youhave a roof deck, where you can drinksomething, but if you prefer, you can danceor speak with your friends.
So, I like this place because it’s the sameplace that I can find in my country, Spain.And I often go to Sofia’s because I loveLatin music and you can find all people inthis place.
This student, from Spain, is in Amelia Onorato’s Mid-Cclass.
Magaly, from Mexico, enjoying a Celtic’s basketball gamewith Miguel, from Chile, at the Fleet Center in Boston. TheCeltics won that night.
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Chris Antonellis' class: Andreina Beiner, Shuo-Feng Chen, Jin-Ho Choi, Abdulla Ahmed Ekaabi, Maria Ascensio Espana Ascension, Haitham Ali Hammoudi, Zakaria Ibrahimi, Osamu Ishihara, Laila Khashokji, Sung Hee Lee, Hyun Nah, Tetsuya Namiki, Yago Ramos Rodriguez, EmiSakamoto, Yuki Takahashi, Sandra Vargas Joven.
Barbara Bliss' class: Omar Al-Mazrooei, Danah Al-Qadeeri, Kokou Amefia, Po-Yu Chang, Regina Gelman,Daniel Grauer, Anthony Gunawan, Atsuko Isoda, Omar Jenayah, Seong-kwon Jeong, Yun Kyung Jung,Mie Kanamitsu, Jeong-Hyun Kim, Piya Paitoonrajitpipit, Wichit Taibowornpitak, Chia-Ching Wu.
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Lynn Bonesteel & Sammi Eckstut's class: Naser Al Qhatani, Shu-Chen Chuang, Pedro Escribano, Sevinc Inanc, Abdullah Jamil, Surin Kunthachatsirikul, Yun-Chuan Li, Tim Lo, Pedro Manuel, Iliana Rodriguez, Niwat Thongchad, Gaukhar Upusheva.
Jill Brand's class: Jasim Saeed Al-Zaabi, Fatima Alhewail, Alfmar Contreras Saab, Lucimara Dos Santos,Sachiko Kanagawa, Sun Kyung Kim, Tae Eun Kim, Hiroko Kubo, Marina Lavithia, Shinzen Maeda,Abdullah Magboul, Sayaka Nakatani, Burcu Ozalp, Sang-Woo Park, Eri Shibata, Alp Tekyildiz.
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Ron Clark's class: Mayumi Araki, Marcia Benarroch Hayon, Yi-Tin Cheng, Karin Dankner, MetinDuran, Sebastian Escuela Benitez, Paola Garza, Olympe Israel-Pape, Yena Kim, Ying-Ling Liao, DaLiu, Taichi Motomura, Jirasinee Naubol, Hai-Hsuan Pao, Kyoko Takahashi.
Pamela Couch's class: Abdullah Alqahtani, Diana Arias, Mohamed Salem Bin Sumaida, AbdullahMubarak Dhahri, Sook Heo, Ji-Yeon Lee, Jose Matos, Cecilia Munoz Roa, Edgardo Andres Ortiz Breve,Mi Rye Song Park, Ann-Jiun Wang, Masayo Yamao, Hsi-Tien Yin, Thani Ahmed Zeyoudi, Qianli Zou.
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Marsha Dean & Laura Morgan's class: Leila Abliamitova, Ozlem Akgun, Assaf Al-Assaf, Mohammed Alqahtani, Jekaterina Cagina, Ricardi Duvil, Orhan Enustekin, Mohamed Haidarah, Hugo Hernandez Landeros, Ahmed Salim Mazrouei, Jung-Hoon Rhee, Tanittha Rungwattanajinda,Aleksey Seliverstov, Meng-Yu Wu, Andrius Zinkevicius.
Betty D'Angelo's class: Sa'ad Al-Saud, Maria Bianchi, Ghazi Darghouth, Jo-Yun Huang, Nozomi Ito, Ji-Hyun Jang, Kayoko Koshikawa, Hyun-Ah Lee, Won Guk Lee, Yen Li, Mayumi Nakamura, Ahmed Raisi, Jun Sumikawa.
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Jeff Di Iuglio & Amelia Onorato's class: Hassan Al-Ali, Regis Ayache, Hiroe Endo, Haruyoshi Hase, Nori Kamigashima, Mustafa Manav, Concepcion Marcellan, Fatima Ezzahra Mechich Alami, Maria De Fatima Munoz Roa, Ji Young Park, Young-Min Park, Hazim Saleh, Gerardo Santamaria, Munkhzue Sukhbaatar, Atsuko Yamanaka.
Reneé Delatizky & Dorothy Lynde's class: Badr Alghurair, Megumi Aoki, Jimena Arrangoiz, MiChang, Bo-Keum Choi, Hae Shin Chung, Ana Maria Fernandez De Soto, Chisato Hirayama,Yougsang Hong, Saoud Khoory, Kyung Jin Kim, Ji Eun Lee, Elizabeth Perez Talavera, Silva RobertaPremoli, Paola Rosero Ramos, Daniel Ucros.
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Margo Downey's class: Sultan Alrasheed, Denise Carvalho, Hae-Jin Chang, Zainab Ghuloum, Rene Juarez, Reiko Kobayashi, Nien-Chen Li, Anna Mazzocchi, Koji Nakaya, Emi Narita, Misato Nishijima, Takahiro Ogawa, Ji Hoon Park, Daisuke Sasaki, In Cheol Shin, Benedetta Terraneo.
Michael Feldman's class: Hend Al-Obaidi, Eiji Asano, Meryem Belyamani, ChaleomjitChaiyapuckdachar, Ziad Dib, Delia Estrada Rodriguez, Maria Hernandez, Jun Kondo, Min YoungLee, Su-Jen Liao, Virginie Masset, Carol Orlande, Yuka Tamari, Tolga Zaimoglu, Ming Zong Zou.
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Shelley Fishman's class: Saud Al-Babtain, Luljeta Bozgo, Maria Gomez Calzadilla, ElenaGrebenchuk, Julian Groisman, Ayako Ishiwata, Gustavo Junca, Amin Mazlum Garza, CarlomagnoOrtha, Luz Adriana Ramirez Baquero, Akihiko Sato, Theerapat Wongsuebchart, Hong Zhang, JoseManuel Zorrilla.
Cynthia Flamm's class: Ibrahim Bamehriz, Zulema Barboza Jimenez, Canan Ceylan, Yu-MingChang, Nawamin Chunpinit, Zoe Constantin, Antonio Jose Gago Bermudez, Patricia Genis, SeungRyong Lee, Yu-Cheng Lin, Nergis Pazarbasi, Yi Shen, Chung-Ling Sun, Nikolaos Tzimourtos, Chia ShengWeng, LanLan Xia.
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Shirley Gould's class: Tarek Ben-Mahmud, Andrea Cangiano, Jose Cardenas, Shu-Chun Chen, Maralf Contreras Saab, Hye-Jin Han, Yasushi Kamei, Hyun-Woo Kim, Taeko Kiriya, Elena LaGrange,Hwa Yong Lee, Hye Kyung Park, Anwar Radha, Shiho Sakai, Yuya Tanaka, Xrisula Tsopelas.
Roselyn Frank & Nora Smith's class: Hassan Al-Hail, Alla Belova, Jun Hwan Chang, Shu-Li Chien, Yukari Fujimura, Chieko Fujishiro, Zeynep Genc, Seung-Ouk Jeong, Yuri Kawase, Tzu-Chun Kuo, Hojin Lee, Hao-Yu Lee, Motoko Miyajima, Kannika Prombot, Sasivimol Sutthibut, Hirohide Tadano.
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Doug Kohn's class: Jong Ho Ahn, Mohamed Al-Sayegh, Urara Arata, Karla Ingrid Capella, Shu-Chen Chiu, Hyun Suk Choi, Yu-Ying Huang, Hye Jin Kim, Ye Na Lee, Monica Medina Esparza,Ryosuke Shimoda, Isavara Sukunwadhna, Chayatat Wadhanakul, Hakan Yedier.
John Kopec's class: Ahmet Caglar Arsu, Betul Guzin Cam, Giap De Matos, David Gonzalez, Hae Eun Kim, Eiji Kondo, Jung-Hyun Kwon, Perrine Laurent, Young-Hee Lee, Hsiao-Tzu Lin, Guilherme Machado Rodrigues, Elnaz Naseri, Ana Oeding, Almamy Sagna, Lung-Chih Wu.
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George Krikorian & Gloria Oswald's class: Anfal Al-Qadri, Yousef Alhammadi, Hyun Sun An, Serdar Caliskan, Naiji Gao, Bakkar Haider, Kenji Hirai, Hsien-Jen Hsu, Yasuo Kuga, Hakjoon Lee, Soo Jin Oh, Eun Young Park, Olzhas Tugelbayev, Nadia Villarreal Morales, Marina Volobuyeva, Bin Zheng.
Jacquie LoConte & Adrianne Saltz's class: Jorge Alva-Luperdi, Halah Buqrais, Arturo Castillo, Giuseppe Cobol, Mahdi Ghuloom, Abdullah Ghurab, Archimandrite Grimiezakis, Chao-ShengHuang, You Jung Jang, Moon Jeong Kim, Emil Lancea, Tju-Lung Luan, Masato Otaka, Aylin Rividi, Gabriela Spinosa, Magaly Zeneth Garza Cavazos (teachers are not in picture).
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Bob Maguire's class: Antonio Balza, Sae Kang, Yun Kyoung Kim, Tae Jung Kim, Maya Komura,Marco Perez, Yuttapong Sereedeeloet, Won Ki Shin, Seda Surmeli, Yu-Kyung Yoon.
Irene Maksymjuk & Michael Feldman's class: Carlos Aedo, Natasha Apelstein, Jee Soo Han, Chih-Wei Hsu, Pattarasak Jivaketu, Sanghoon Kim, Hyo-Kyoung Kim, Ja Hyun Kim, Jin-Taek Lee, Aram Mirzakhanian, Yasunori Omura, Ji-Eun Park, Yingguo Wu, Jianhua Zhan.
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Margo Miller's class: Rashid Awadi, Gaia Bongi, Won Young Choi, Eun Hye Chung, Carmelo Follo,Jeremy Hamon, Jihee Han, Hwoi-Young Kim, Ki-Jun Kim, Yukiko Kobayashi, Kosuke Nagasawa, Ana Paula Paula, Prapon Srisawat, Haixiang Yu.
Judith Dan & Alex Oliveira's class: Desak Agustini, Nathalie Dumas, Dongwon Goh, Maria Herrera,Wenchieh Hsiao, Ju-Tsen Hsiao, Qingjun Jiang, Poondej Krairit, Ai Kubota, Shunsuke Mizumoto, Maria Mota Velasco, Yumi Ota, Sabine Sierro, Buncha Thongthai, Atsushi Yatsuda.
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Patricia Peknik's class: Issam Abi-Khalil, Ahmad Al Moosa, Sara Alawadhi, Sarah De La CruzEspaillat, Marlies Fischer-Albrand, Mariko Furuta, Nutta Hongchintakul, Soo-Yeon Hwang,Suekjean Jeong, Seung Hyun Kim, Yukio Najima, Bo-Hyun Park, Atif Sh. Ali, Rafael Enrique UlloaNacer, Chika Yamashita, Kye-Young Yun.
Joe Pettigrew's class: Ahmed Abdulla Al-Hammadi, Mohamed Saeed Al-Mehairi, Al-Shaima Al-Sabbrei, Miguel Aparicio Morales, Shirley Bern, Alessandro Boscolo, Hiromu Endo, Misato Fukue, Monica Garcia Rincon, Gulmira Kulumbetova, Tatsuaki Matsunaga, Sixela Montilla, Taly Ostfeld,Francesca Scivetti, Valentina Tomio.
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Gregg Singer’s class: Julio Arguello, Ji-Ann Chang, Jeong Eun Choi, Jae-Hyun Chung, Maria Giron,Nishantha Kasturiratne, Sunhee Kim, Eun Jung Kim, Wen-Ling Lin, Michiru Nakagawa, Ghassan Naseef, Jose Lauro Silva Neto, Somanas Thanachanant, Tomomi Tokuhiro, Anna Traustadottir, Kanat Tulemetov.
Michelle Remaud & Chris Loken-Kim's class: Zhenglin Chen, Chia-Jen Chou, Hyea-Jin Gil, Yoshinori Hirayama, Gabriel Jaramillo, Chien-Hui Kao, Jee-Hyun Kim, Hiroka Kobayashi, Dong Keun Lee, Yuh-Lun Liang, Claudia Marcone Hormazabal, Nukte Toy, Sang Mok Won.
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Nora Smith & Kathy McCartan's class: Louay Bahman, Tung-Chao Chen, Wei-chi Chen, CarlosCortes, Anar Garibov, Huinam Kang, Janethas Keatkeeree, Hyo-Mi Kim, Atsufumi Kosugi, Chia-Chia Liang, Maria Martinez, Preedee Nilgianskul, Jung Hee Woo, Hui-Ya Yang.
Pam Steeves & Barbara Ishikura's class: Marcia Brazi, Francisco Cunat, Fatih Gurtuna, AbdullahHawari, Tae Hosotani, Yasuo Iga, Seok-Jin Joo, Hye Sung Lee, Hyunjung Lee, Natalia Li, Kiyoe Ota, Maneeon Phongsurat, Seung-Cheol Ryu, Yasuko Takeuchi, Yukio Watanabe.
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Maria Tomeho-Palermino & Alex Oliveira's class: Juan Castellanos Villani, Bauyrzhan Cherdabayev, Evi Di Matteo, Ellert Gudjonsson, You Kyung Han, Atsushi Hashimoto, Nahar Houthan, HernanJoglar, Joo Young Kang, Konstantia Saiti, Keiko Shiota, Wing Yi Tong, Sigrun Traustadottir.
Ramon Valenzuela's class: Hanan Al-Aujan, Tariq Angawi, Reem Behbehani, Najat Belfadil, AhmedBelhoul, Adriana Castillo Gibsone, Jae-Woong Choi, Florencia Giesso, So Eun Joo, MidoriNakayama, Gladys Rey, Ana Cecelia Smolka, Takamasa Suzuki, Yuen-Ho Wong, Hajime
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Susan Vik & Judy Di Leo's class: Tharathorn Aksaranuwat, Shehab Binbraik, Roberta Camelo, Jiwon Choi, Joo-Yeun Chung, Gabriel Hernandez, Chia-Yen Lin, Gloria MacKinlay, Mana Mitsuhashi,Kumiko Nabeshima, Georgios Palamidis, Rosana Slezeviciute, Sukru Toksoz, Chun-I Wu.
Jamie Beaton & Ellen Yaniv's class: Kamino Abe, Dhaen Khalifa Almuhairi, Jai-Hunk Chang, YoungChoi, Jee-Hyun Choi, Stefano Frate, Yasuko Fujii, Jin Funato, Koichi Kaneko, Ji-Won Lee, Francisco JavierMateo Perez, Takehisa Nitta, Miho Takenaka, Pedro Velilla, Motoko Watanabe, Miwako Yamanaka.
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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 officialsat your high school, university, and/or place of work in your country, and talk with them about yourexperience studying English at Boston University. In return for your help, you receive a Certificate ofRecognition from Boston University, identifying you as an official CELOP Ambassador!
If you are interested in becoming a CELOP Ambassador, please visit the Front Desk at CELOP or E-mail us at [email protected]. Thank you for supporting CELOP!
C E L O P A m b a s s a d o r sProgram Abroad
School of Management students doing homework at the StarbucksCafe in the new SMG building.
Were you happy with your experience at CELOP?
Would you be interested in helping CELOP get the word out aboutour English language programs to people in your home country?
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Illustration by Yuki Takahashi
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On the Blackout Nightby Yuki Takahashi
One Night, I was drawing a pictureof a fairy. It was a fairy of light andshe wore a beautiful glittery dress.
She had fair hair, blue eyes and rosy cheeks,and she was so cute! Probably the picturewas overrated,but I was pleased with my pic-ture and I took a long look.
Suddenly it became dark. There was ablackout! It was a stormy night, so maybethe lightning had struck.
When my eyes got used to darkness, Istood up and looked for a candle. After afew minutes, I could find an little old candle.I lit the candle. The candle threw low lighton my desk.
At that moment, a weird thing hap-pened! On the desk, next to the candle,there was a little object which gave out light.At first, I felt scared, but the next moment, Iwas very surprised! That object was a fairlywith beautiful blond hair and a shiningdress, the same as my picture!
“Oh!! What a strange thing I see!! Ican’t get over it!!” I involuntarily shouted.The fairy turned her head toward me andshe dropped a curtsey.
“I’m sorry to scare you, but I’m very gladto meet you.” She said in her little sweetvoice. I felt very joyful and I asked her,“What’s your name,honey?”
“My name is Christal,” she said.
“Oh, it’s a very lovely name!! I have acrush on you!”
I held out my hand and she rode on it.
“I’ll guide you to my town! To myfavorite restaurant, record shop, tearoom,park and my school. After that, I’ll intro-duce you to my friends! They will be sur-prised and and be glad to see you. Heregoes!” I shouted excitedly.
But she shook her head and said with asad voice, “I want to do so, but it’s impossi-ble. Look, the candle is runnning short.When that candle burns out, I will disap-pear.”
“Oh my God!! What can I do to hold upthe disappearance?”
“No, we have no way. Oh, the candle isburning out. It’s time to say good-bye.”
“Oh no! Don’t go, Christal!”
“Good bye. I was very happy to see you.Thank you...”
Just at the moment, her body becameparticles of light and no one was on myhand.
Suddenly, it became bright. The black-out ended and the electricity lit up. And onmy desk, there was an exhausted candle anda white paper without a picture. Do youthink it was only a dream or an illusion?Maybe so. But I believe it was a real thingand someday, I’ll meet with her again.
The student who wrote this story and drew the illustra-tion on the facing page is from Japan and is in Chris
Antonellis’s Mid-C class.
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“The Tell-Tale Heart” An Ending
by Yasuko Fujii
Have you read “The Tell-Take Heart”by Edgar Allan Poe? In this horror storya young, disturbed man was obsessed tothe point of killing, or at least cutting up,another human being. Although heburied the body parts beneath the floor,he gave himself away to the policebecause he believed he could still hearhis dead victim’s heart beating!
Strangely, the policemen were surprisedwhen I told them about the body.They stared at me. One policeman
made a sign to the other men with his eyes topull up the boards. I knew they alreadynoticed that his heart was beating because Icouldn’t hear anything except the terriblenoise! However, they were surprised againwhen they found the old man’s body.
Two policemen took me out of the houseto jail. I felt peace and freedom from his hor-rible eyes and heart. Then I could sleep wellin prison.
But I heard the beating of his heart againafter three days in jail. “Stop!” I cried. Thebeating was getting louder and louder.“Stop! Stop! Stop!” I cried again and again.The policemen came to my cell. Though Iasked them to help me, but again they onlylaughed at me. I had heard the noise all thetime for those three days. Nervous. I wasvery nervous. Finally, I couldn’t stand thehorrible noise. I wanted peace and quiet. I bitmy tongue strongly and as forcefully as Icould. I had a taste of blood. A moment later,the beating of his terrible heart stopped.
Now I feel peace. I hear the policemancrying, “He killed himself” I am not nervousnow... Everything is black.
[Editor’s note: This writing is based on aclass assignment to continue, or write anextended ending to, the short story “TellTale Heart” by Edgar Allen Poe.]
The writer, from Japan, isin Pamela Graham’s
IntermediateReading/Speaking elective.
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The Ghost in the ShellRafael Ulloa
Polished metal surfaces and solid diecast parts melted with precise anddetailed plastic pieces. Bright paint
bathing his hard curves and also his sharpedges. Japanese design? -Who knows- clas-sic, perhaps with a similar aspect in relationto others that everybody had seen before.But with his own soul, mystic and deep. Assure of what he is as a dog can be sure thathe is not a cat.
When my hand was reaching the end ofthe antenna installed in his elbow, my dreamwas shattered by the merciless radio-alarmclock. On a regular Saturday without anything to do in the morning, I wouldn’t madeany effort to open my eyes and would ignorethe alarm (synthetic rhythms from prefabmusical groups that are already dead beforethey born). I would slept until noon. But thedream was inside my mind causing anguishand anxiety in some part of myself. I wasregretting the fact that a long time ago hewas in my hands and I made with him thou-sands of different things. I abused himbecause he was strong and after that I lethim go... I lost him... I sent him away withthe ones who ran away from our lives whenthe other ones arrived. Not precisely metalones, not necessarily plastic ones, not alwaysJapanese.
Some hope was inside me and I went outin search of him remembering the place I
encountered him a long time ago. Dressingup for the day out, I remembered that whenI saw him for the first time I rejected him,maligned his kind and ignored his detailedexistence. How foolish I was. But I decidedto recover him. I wanted to be with his glo-rious race again. I could hardly wait to foundhim like I found him the first time: In thecircular glass case inside a colored box withJapanese characters that were big and bright.I needed to recover something lost to feelthe same excitement I felt before one moretime.
I arrived at the place where he lived onceand I noticed that he wasn’t there anymore.All those Japanese silhouettes of metal andplastic and perfection and more metal andmore secrets were vanished. They weretrapped in one time where perfection was avalue over quantity. They were pushed to asmall corner by hundred of imitators withcheap solutions and poor aesthetics.
Maybe he and his peers are around here.For sure they are hidden in some places.Some of them are still in the land of the ris-ing sun and others are on the shelves of theeccentric collector with enough money torecreate his dreams. At that moment and atthis moment, the only thing I have from himis that ghost in a metal shell surrounding mymemories.
The writer, from Ecuador, is in Patricia Peknik’s level E class.
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The Cat on the TricycleRafael Ulloa
Iwouldn’t get worried if I saw multicoloredspiders with long thin legs dancing to themaniac rhythm of African drums. Also I
wouldn’t get worried if my night table talked tome about his usual tales that he always used totalk about only to make my bed get mad. I wasreally scared this time because a white cat ridingthe red tricycle from my childhood days wentround and round across my bed.
The weird thing was that the cat rode thetricycle with great level of expertise and thefeline seemed to be so relaxed that he glanced atme and gave me a fiendish smile. I get so scaredthat I decided to call the leather-clad midget andhave him watch over my sleep while he ate juicygrapes next to my bed. Again the cat on the tri-cycle entered the room to ride his tricyclearound my bed, but this time he stopped next tothe midget and, getting a few of the midget’sgrapes exploded in evil laughter. The midgetwas so astonished as was I. After the cat left theroom the midget reacted in a violent way: danc-ing rap. That was his usual way to discharge hiswrath.
Usually cats are egocentric and mean ani-mals, so I wouldn’t be so surprised if that cat
entered my room only to catwalk around my bed,but why ride my childhood tricycle?Furthermore, how about that evil smile and psy-chotic laughter without a simple “meow”? I did-n’t feel safe anymore, not even with the leather-clad midget eating grapes all night next to mybed. I wished I had the protection of the howlingwoman before was too late and my mind collaps-es with all the weird things happening around.
For the third time, the cat entered my roomriding the tricycle, and this time the devilishbeast was making some sort of talent exhibitionriding standing over the tricycle, mounted withhis hands in the air.
From that moment until the morning, thenight was quiet without any other visit from thecat on the tricycle. When the first sunrays of themorning created a shadowy mood in the room, Ithought about what happened at night and I fig-ured out that I was completely stupid. I didn’thave to worry about the cat’s visits and I evendidn’t need to call the leather-clad midget whowas eating grapes next to my bed. No cat whoserespects himself could dare to enter my room inmy childhood tricycle. That red tricycle ranaway from my house with the neighbor’s dog.Now again, time for the morning revision.
The writer, from Ecuador, is in Patricia Peknik’s level E class.
Spooky Worldby Jun Kondo
The trip to Spooky World is one of themost exciting events I’ve participatedin during this semester. Spooky World
is a place where you can have an experience ofa big American traditional holiday, Halloween.
Spooky World is only open in the month
of October. It has four haunted houses, ahaunted hayride, shops, games and museums.It is a very good place to experienceHalloween. It is more fun than scary. Evenon the bus ride there and back, we had fun. Itwas nice to get to know other students. It wasfreezing outside, but it was still a good trip.
The writer, from Japan, is a student in MichaelFeldman’s Low D Business class.
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Halloweenparty on thetop of HowardJohnson’sHotel, the“Lava Bar.”Haithem,Saud,Elizabeth,Hend, and Eri.
Chin-Chi Yang and Shu-Li Chien decorating pumpkins for Halloween in a CELOP classroom.
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1. What is your favorite local restaurant?Applebee's Armani Café Bangkok RestaurantBoronya Brown Sugar Cheesecake FactoryChef Li D'Angelo Chinese RestaurantFire and Ice Hongkong Pearl Hard Rock CafeIHOP Kashmir Hong Kong CaféKoriana Joe’s American Bar Korean near ArmoryMarché Legal Sea Foods Lemon Grass ThaiMcDonald's Men Tei Mandarin - DanversPoo The North End Mexican RestaurantShay's Shwarma King Sophia'sStudent union Tapeo in Newbury Thai CuisineTin Tin Buffet Top of the Hub Turkish RestaurantVitoria Seafood Wisteria
2. What is your favorite local store?A/X Abercrombie & Fitch Banana Republic Bay Side Barnes & Noble Cambridge Gallery MallCVS Convenience stores Filene'sGalleria Filene's Basement Hollywood videoMacy’s Prudential Star MarketThe Gap Urban Outfitters The Gap outletHome Depot Macy's Marshall'sMoscwa Newbury St. Nike TownOld Navy North Shore Mall Polo SportsSears Store 24 Tower Records
3. What is your favorite cafe?Anadou Café Armani Café Au Bon PainTrident Café Au Lait Student unionCafé Dugout Café Moca Café ShopCappuccino Cinnamon Coffee ShoppeD & D Dunkin Donuts Friday'sHard Rock Café Haitian Coffee Starbuck'sLatte The 99 Peet’sPizzeria UNO Prudential Buick Street Cafe
4. What is your favorite night club (disco)?Avalon Axis BeachesCaprice Embassy The Golden BananaJillian Latino Night Club Harukiya in JapanLayalina MBC My bedroomMy restroom The Poor House PradaRoxy Sophia's St. PetersburgI'm not allowed to go
5. What was the best movie you saw this semester?Almost Famous American Pie Autumn in New YorkBedazzled Bless the Child Charlie's Angels Dark Angel Face Off GladiatorGreen Mile The Matrix Meet the ParentsMen of Honor Mrs. Doubtfire Mission Impossible 2Red Violin Life of Eri Shibata Legend of Bagger VancePay it Forward Perfect Storm Nightmare Before XmasShaft The Sixth Day Remember the TitansThe Sixth Sense The Slicker Terminator 2Witness Gilbert Grape What lies benethesX-Men When a Man Loves a Woman
6. What was your favorite trip outside Boston?Cambridge Cape Cod Freeport, MaineLas Vegas Maine MontrealNew York New Hampshire Museum of Fine ArtsPlymouth Salem Newport, Rhode IslandSix Flags Science Museum Orlando, FloridaToronto Spooky World QuebecVermont White Mountains
7. What is your favorite American food? Burger King Barbecue Cheese omeletCheeseburger Cheesecake ChickenChicken wings Chinese food Cookies and milkCram Chowder Diet Coke French friesFried chicken Fried potatoes Hamburger Lasagna Lobster Macaroni & cheeseMc Donald’s Nachos Onion ringsPasta Pizza SaladSea Food Steak SushiThere isn't any Top secret Wrap
8. What is your favorite place to study?Home Boston BUCELOP Dormitory café Copley Public LibraryGeddes Lab In my desk Dormitory kitchenMugar library MLL 255 My family roomMy room Royal College of Art Student unionMBTA Tetsuya's room Green areas where I liveThe USA Under my bed
9. What is your favorite Web site. 37.com ajnadeen.com alshamsi.netanekdot.ru antique shop artcrimeaudiofind.com autodesign.com bokeum.is.my.name.comboston.com BMW.com Daum.netdiarioas.es egghead.com fgtv.comhotmail.com geocities.com/barbarastudentinter.it jaheem.net kimo.com.twlaunch.com lrytas.lt MLL home pagemsn.com music web sites TOEFL siteNakata.com My homepage News for youwww.vhi.com Yahoo Yahoo JapanMy e-mail site because there's always good news there
10. What's the best souvenir you will take home?American Flag Stereo Shirt, tieBoston goods Black cat from Salem Boston University goodsBU lighter Boxer from Boston BU sweatshirtCherry Coke Christmas Candles Christmas giftsClothes Degree from BU Eating togetherGames English Language Halloween costumeHarvard T-shirt Japanese girls Stuffed catsJelly Beans Key chain All the people I met hereMagnet Me Statue of LibertyMy car My degree My educationWalnuts Postcards My girlfriend's photoPalm Pilot Perfume Pictures Red lobster Boston playing cards Samuel Adams Beer
Students speak up about what they likeMany students responded to questions about what they enjoyed during their time at CELOP
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F A L L2000 • Faculty
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For E-mail addresses of faculty, go to the Faculty & Staff section of the CELOP Web site:www.bu.edu/celop
Chris Antonellis
Jamie Beaton
Shelley Bertolino
Barbara Bliss
Lynn Bonesteel
Jill Brand
Kathy Brenner
Amanda Brown
Meredith Clark
Ron Clark
Karin Conrad
Pamela Couch
Linda Coyne
Betty D’Angelo
Mary D’Apice
Judith Dan
Marsha Dean
Renee Delatizky
Jeff Di Iuglio
Judith Di Leo
Margo Downey
Ginny Drislane
Sammi Eckstut
Michael Feldman
Gail Fernandez
Shelley Fishman
Cynthia Flamm
Roselynn Frank
Margo Friedman
Shirley Gould
Pamela Graham
Erin Hobey
Catherine Howell
James Kaplan
Doug Kohn
John Kopec
George Krikorian
Robert Lally
Jacquie LoConte
Chris Loken-Kim
Lori Lubeski
Dorothy Lynde
Bob Maguire
Irene Maksymjuk
Kathy McCartan
Doreen Miller
Margo Miller
Laura Morgan
Alex Oliveira
Amelia Onorato
Gloria Oswald
Patricia Peknik
Joe Pettigrew
Carol Pineiro
Michelle Remaud
Adrianne Saltz
Gregg Singer
Nora Smith
Pam Steeves
Mark Stepner
Mary Sullivan
Heather Sundahl
Maria T. Palermino
Ramon Valenzuela
Susan Vik
Ellen Yaniv
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Carol Allen
Associate Director, Student Services <[email protected]>
John de Szendeffy
Multimedia Language Lab 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 Supervisor<[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]>
Jennifer Lynch
Program Coordinator<[email protected]>
Sheri Rosenzweig
Lab Supervisor<[email protected]>
Alicia Radl
Staff Coordinator<[email protected]>
Crystal Brunelli
Academic Advisor<[email protected]>
Amanda Amos
Student Employee<[email protected]>
Erin Johnston
Staff Coordinator,Academic Programs<[email protected]>
Hiroyo Saito
Lab Assistant<[email protected]>
Monica Postelnicu
Student Employee<[email protected]>
Kumi Tanabe
Intern
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S t a y i n t o u c hwith your CELOP classmates and CELOP
For information or additional copies of any CELOP Semester Book, please contact John deSzendeffy <[email protected]> or CELOP <[email protected]>. The Books are also available in AdobeAcrobat Reader format (.pdf) on the CELOP Alumni Web page.
All material © Center for English Language and Orientation Programs, 2000.
Jorge, Gabriella, Magaly, andArturo in the CELOP lobby deco-rated for Halloween.
First Place Photo Contest: Having a biteto eat at Niagra Falls, New York. Photoby Hiroe Endo.
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