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Showing posts with label #californiaculture. Show all posts
Showing posts with label #californiaculture. Show all posts

Tuesday, August 30, 2016

LSI Beach Party!


Friday Aug 19 was an exciting day for a lot of LSI students, teachers and staff members. All of us from four different campuses arrived in Huntington Beach at around 9:30 pm and started setting up tents. 


Students grabbed some delicious breakfast snacks and went over to watch the Volleyball Tournament that was about to start. All the schools played really well and were supported by cheers from their perspective campuses. 



 

The winner of the tournament this year was the Downtown LA campus. The fun continued as we moved to other fun games. 



The Tug-of-War was so much fun. Even teachers and staff participated in it. All the different campuses took part in the exhilarating water games and won a lot of gift certificates as prizes! 




Everyone was in such a cheerful and happy mood. Students made new friends and posed for selfies with them. 



We all felt like one big family. We had worked up an appetite with all those games and were ready to grab lunch, which was wonderful. There were sandwiches, wraps, chips, and watermelon. 


We took a few moments after lunch to connect with our friends and swim in the ocean. The water was cold but we got used to it quickly. 




After that we got ready for the disgusting food eating contest. It was crazy to watch the contestant eat food like spicy peppers, bitter gourd, lemon and other unexpected things. 


After that, things started to wind down and we started getting ready to leave. We said goodbye to everyone and were filled with gratitude and happiness for such an amazing sun kissed day. 





Needless to say, the weather was simply divine throughout the whole day. We love California and can't wait for the LSI 2017 Beach Party!!!

By Sushant Naidu, Teacher Coordinator at DT
http://lifestyle.languagesystems.edu/

Friday, July 29, 2016

US Open of Surfing!!



Every summer, student from our OC campus visit Huntington Beach for the US Open of Surfing. This is the oldest and biggest surfing competition in the United States. 


For the past few years it has been sponsored by Vans, and the two together make up a very good example of true California beach culture. This event is not just about surfing, this year our students seemed pretty blown away at the insane skateboarding that we saw. It is truly amazing to see how crazy skaters can get these days.


The weather was perfect, and the surfing and skating made the day a perfect taste of California beach culture. This event will wrap up on Sunday July 31 with the finals of the men's and women's surfing competion. If you are in Southern California this weekend, get down to Huntington Beach!


Ty Mussack, Program Coordinator at OC
http://languagesystems.edu/