Contents S Letter from the Director • CreditsB 4 Where CELOP Students Come From 5 Semester Book Elective Class 6 Registration Week 8 Get to Know Your Classmates 11 Student Profiles: Hisami Yasuyama • Vicky • Mohamed Al Mubarak • Anton Sabha • Hasumi Tanaka 12 John Kopec’s Class at Plimoth Plantation 16 Dorothy Lynde’s Class Goes to Harvard 17 Pizza Party at CELOP 18 “What Surprised Me Most about Boston” by Raquel Chavez Muscolino and Mariana Bego 22 “What Surprised Me Most about the U.S.” by Manuelita Bonilla 23 “What is the Best Thing about Living in Boston?” by Teppei Tsukiyama 24 “Thanksgiving” by Ece Gucuk 25 Halloween Party at CELOP/Costume Contest Winners 26 The CELOP Skeleton Crew 30 Doreen Miller’s Dead Finger Cookies 31 Scenes of Boston by Li-Yen Huang 32 Photo Essay by Lydia Jimenez 36 Poems by Pam Steeves’ Class 38 Japanese Cultural Reception 42 “Japanese Cultural Reception: Tokyo—The City We Live in” by Mizuki Motojima 44 Scenes of Tokyo 45 “The Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University” by Yong Il Lee 46 “The Big Time Century Begins: My Impressions of NYC” by Mizuki Motojima 47 “A Night with Interpol and the Secret Machines at Avalon” by Li-Yen Huang 48 “Shopping in Boston” by Caroline Chenot 49 “The Presidential Race in Boston” 50 “Ramadan Kareem” by Mohamed Al Mubarak 52 “Ead Al-Feter: A Muslim Celebration” by Sayed M. Al-Mousawi 53 “The Pioneer of Indonesian: Women’s Emancipation” by Astrid Veronica 54 “The Effect of Malls in the United Arab Emirates” by Mohamed Al Mubarak 54 “Saving My Uncle” by Edmundo Dangla 56 “Customs: To Keep or Not to Keep?” by Hanan Al-Kindi 57 “Since When Did I Stop?” by Caroline Chenot 57 “Backpacking in South America,” by Marian Quevedo Rondon 58 “What a night!” by Marta Mohos 60 “A Calm of Waiting” by Astrid Veronica 60 “An Experience of Love” by Esra Al-habib 61 “Red Sox Reverse ‘Curse of the Bambino’” 62 “The Red Sox Blew away the Curse in One Sweep” by Seong Hyun Park 63 “Lethal Non-Lethal Weapons?” by Carlos Dorado 64 “You Know?” by Caroline Chenot 64 “Foreign Language Classes at Hosei University and Boston University” by Haruna Suzuki 66 “Superman is Dead, and It wasn’t the Kryptonite” by Carlos Dorado 68 “Expression of Life” by Caroline Chenot 69 “Apollo” by Caroline Chenot 70 “It’s Only a ‘Ciggy’!” by Hanan Al-Kindi 70 “Kerry vs. Bush” by Carlos Dorado & Fabiana Casado 72 “The Effects of the Decline of Bats” by Maria Sagot 73 Movie Reviews: Motorcycle Diaries, Alfie, Hero 74 Theater Review: The Lion King 76 Restaurant Reviews: Papa Razzi, Armani Café 77 Friday Movie Club 78 Sitcom Club 80 News of the Semester 82 CELOP Crossword Puzzle 83 CELOP Alumni 84 Faculty & Staff 96 Class Pictures 98 Dear CELOP Students, I am very pleased to have the opportunity to send you a personal message at the end of the semester. At the begin- ning of your programs this fall, I welcomed you to Boston and to CELOP at Boston University. Now I would like to congratulate you on your successful completion of the Fall Program. I sincerely hope that you had a wonderful adventure here this semester, improving your English language proficiency, broadening your awareness about culture in the United States, making new friends, and exploring new places in Boston. The CELOP faculty and staff, and all the friends of the CELOP program, have greatly enjoyed hosting all of you this fall. Although classes are end- ing, and many of you will be returning to your countries, Semester Book Fall 2004 will keep your CELOP experience alive. Share your memories with your friends and family. For those of you who are returning to CELOP in the spring, we hope you continue to have an enjoyable and pro- ductive time here. Best wishes, Margot S. Valdivia Director COVER: Li-Yen Huang CELOP FALL 2004 SEMESTER BOOK XIV ILLUSTRATION PAGE 5: Andreina De Lamo, Fall 2002. Editors John de Szendeffy, Doreen Miller, Lesley Andrews Layout John de Szendeffy Send correspondence Production Assistance Lesley Andrews, Jonathan White regarding the Semester Book to John de Szendeffy, Photographers Lesley Andrews, Jonathan White [email protected]. Distribution Nicole Scholtz, Sindy Chao Contributors Jenn Kay Kosch, Lesley Andrews, Jonathan White www.bu.edu/celop/alumni also Judy Di Leo, Marcella Framondi All material ©Center for English Language and Orientation Pro- This is the 14th edition of the CELOP Semester Book. It is published every semester and available at the Front Desk grams, Boston University, 2004. free of charge to all current students. All Semester Books can be downloaded from the CELOP Alumni Web site as [v. XIV.2] Adobe Acrobat (PDF) documents, www.bu.edu/celop. 4 CELOP Semester Book | Fall 2004 Brazil Japan Senegal Chile Jordan Spain China, People’s Republic Kazakhstan Switzerland Colombia Korea, Republic of Syria Costa Rica Kuwait Taiwan, R.O.C. Dominican Republic Latvia Thailand France Lebanon Turkey Hungary Mexico United Arab Emirates Indonesia Nicaragua U.S.A Iraq Oman Venezuela Israel Russia Yemen Italy Saudi Arabia Illustration: De Lamo, Andreina Fall 2002 CELOP Semester Book | Fall 2004 5 Marian Quevedo Rondon Mohamed “Bianconeeri” Carlos Al Mubarak Dorado Chia-Li Hanan “Charlie” Lin Al-Kindi Li-Yen Huang Ji Hyun “Amanda” Lee Fabiana Caroline Casado Chenot Seong Hyun “Song” Park Doreen Miller Not pictured: Ji Yeon “Jenny” Han Mizuki “Moto” Motojima 6 CELOP Semester Book | Fall 2004 ok El Bo ect r iv te amazi- e s ng how fast It’s time can pass by C e when you’re enjoying yourself. Well, if you asked any of us l m what it was like at the SB club, we’d tell you just that: hours seemed a like minutes! The great thing about the whole experience is that each s e and every one of us has a unique way of expressing him- or herself, and we s S are from different cultural backgrounds, so joining all our ideas together made the Semester Book quite a product! We won’t deny that we had to work hard to put it all together, but with the hard work came fun and excitement. We hope you enjoy flipping through its pages just as much as we enjoyed putting it together. Hanan Caroline Interesting Ooh La La Sweet Imaginative Shy sometimes, but Down to earth she vehemently dis- Strong personality agrees! Very productive Quiet Poetic Cheerful Amanda Carlos Lively Witty Charlie Mohamed Friendly Creative Handsome devil Cute Bossy Interesting Funny Passionate Stubborn Nice smile Dreamy Giving Special Philosophical Outgoing Open-minded Unsure person Easy-going Social Marian Individual Jenny Hard-to-get Beautiful Doreen Bossy Introverted Bossy Sophisticated Unique “The Bushinator” Moto Conservative Fun-loving Comprehensive Reserved Halloween Hippie One of a kind Shy Beautiful smile and Calm, cool, relaxed Good fashion sense complexion Cheerful Social butterfly Humorous Funny Encouraging Mysterious Li Yen Truthful Original Fabiana Talented Creative Artistic Loud Song Shy Opinionated Very cute smile Direct Methodical Passionate Peaceful John’s life-saver Designer extraordi- Soccer fanatic Original thinker naire Good listener CELOP Semester Book | Fall 2004 7 REGISTRATION WEEK 8 CELOP Semester Book | Fall 2004 CELOP Semester Book | Fall 2004 9 MORE REGISTRATION WEEK 10 CELOP Semester Book | Fall 2004 GET TO KNOW YOUR CLASSMATES JENN KAY KOSCH,STUDENT LIFE COORDINATOR DURING EVERY ORIENTATION WEEK, you must go searching for things (e.g., a matchbook CELOP holds an event called “Get to Know Your from a restaurant), we had a “getting to know you” Classmates” to help students meet each other before version. classes officially begin. This is when all of the new Students go around the room asking each students get together for the first time to have fun, other if they fit any of the descriptions on the sheet enjoy some delicious refreshments and get to know (e.g., “Rafael, do you play the guitar?”). In the end, each other by playing games. the person who gets the most names in five minutes We begin with an icebreaker that challenges wins a great prize! This is just another way for peo- everyone to remember each other. However, stu- ple to get to know each other better in a fun and dents not only have to remember each other’s first relaxing environment. We all enter the room as name, but also the country strangers but leave as friends! he/she comes from, his/her favorite food and a word An example of the scavenger hunt list. that best describes them. FIND SOMEONE IN (For example, “Hello, I am THE R Kenichiro from Japan. OOM WHO . My favorite food is noo- has lived in at least three countries dles and my word is ‘art’ _____________________ because I love to paint.”) has a pet that is not a cat, dog, or bird As we go on, _____________________ students have to intro- has been on television duce themselves, and then recall facts about ______________________ plays the guitar all of the other stu- dents who have gone ______________________ before them. It can has a birthday this month be really difficult (especially toward ______________________ likes to go skydiving the end), but everyone helps ______________________ each other out, speaks Mandarin and there are usually some ______________________ VERY funny moments. Next, we have a scavenger hunt. However, unlike a regular scavenger hunt, where CELOP Semester Book | Fall 2004 11 P PROFILES Students bring an amazing variety of experience and interests to CELOP. Students in the Semester Book class interviewed a few to get a sense of that experience and their ambitions as well.