Futsal Tournament 2016

On Friday, September 16, Language Systems International (LSI) held its first annual Futsal Tournament at LA Galaxy Soccer Center. 

All four LSI campuses, including the Northeast LA Dragons, Orange County (OC) Surfers, and the South Bay (SB) Sharks, participated enthusiastically and brought many fans along for the ride!

It was a new and exciting experience for both the teams and the fans. The facilities at the LA Galaxy Soccer Center were amazing as the teams adjusted to playing on an indoor field and with fewer players. 

The fans from each school crowded around the "Donovan" and "Beckham" courts to watch the fierce competition and cheer their teams on. Each school was represented by students wearing their school colors. 

The Northeast LA Dragons wore green, the LA Angels wore yellow, the South Bay Sharks wore blue, and the OC students wore red. 

Each team had prepared for this tournament by practicing and learning how to work together.

This was evident when watching the teams practice the match. Each team looked disciplined, confident, and ready to have a good time. 

The championship match was between the SBLA Sharks and the DTLA Angels. Each school played strong and with a lot of heart, but in the end, the SBLA Sharks came away with the championship trophy. Congratulations, SBLA!

Afterwards, the students and players got together to hang out at the "LA Galaxy Cafe," where LSI staff offered soft drinks, snacks, and pizza. There was a drawing by Expedition America and several students won free LA City Tours and two free Las Vegas trips!

By Michelle Buell, Academic Director at LSI 

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Getty Center Trip

The Getty center field trip was an exciting and insightful trip for many of the students. We explored the gardens read a short history of the Getty, and reviewed paintings from the Renaissance through the 19th century. 

The Getty was featuring a Rembrandt exhibit and I was able to explain the cultural and his store cool significance of the great Dutch painter.

 The students also loved to taking a tour through the Elizabethan and Victorian English and French Woodley living quarters, looking at the elegant ancient furniture, and with the style of life was for old European royalty. 

 We wrapped up the trip at the Getty with a special exhibits about Buddhist caves created by the Chinese during the tong dynasty. The Getty is featuring exact replica of these caves in a tent just in front of the museum for free! Many of the students sod is an excellent opportunity to take a glimpse into the life of their own ancient cultures. 

 All in all, the Getty Center was a wonderful trip that many of the students enjoyed from a cultural and educational perspective, and we were able to learn English as we were viewing wonderful works of Western art.

 By Jason Hardwick, Teacher at NELA 

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DTLA Tour!

The field trip to downtown Los Angeles was a great time. Everyone seemed to really enjoy themselves.

We started out by eating sausages at a traditional German style sausage making restaurant.  After enjoying some of this cuisine in the arts District, just south of Little Tokyo, we went to the Disney concert hall to tour the property.We explored the building and the architecture, as well as the beautiful gardens above.

We ended our trip, unexpectedly, at the Broad museum, which at the time had no line.

The museum was awesome, and we enjoyed works by Andy Warhol and Mike Kelly.

The students also really loved the big furniture and the giant balloon animals. We hope to go again!!

By Jason Hardwick, Teacher at NELA 

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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

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Shakespeare By The Sea

Students joined teacher Steven from SB campus in San Pedro for Shakespeare By The Sea's performance of "Othello." 

Shakespeare By the Sea is a group of traveling actors who perform various Shakespeare plays along the coast in Los Angeles. 

Point Fermin is a lovely scenic spot that most students miss when they're in LA. 

Luckily they could catch this popular summer event in this special place. Everyone met at school and carpooled down the San Pedro just before sunset. 

Some students brought snacks and drinks and some were available for purchase there. 

 

Everyone enjoyed a lovely evening under the stars with Othello!

By Sylvia Sunada, Program Coordinator at SB

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Summer BBQ!

Friday August 12, over 75 students from LSI-OC met at a local park for a Summer BBQ. That is a lot of hungry mouths to feed. 

Ty, the program coordinator in Orange County, wanted to create a little school spirit ahead of our annual inter-campus beach party this Friday 8/19/16. 

The menu for the BBQ included chicken kebobs, Korean kalbi, Mexican pollo asado, marinated steak, sweet peppers, sweet corn, and lots of snacks. 

There were so many students that they had to form a line that worked its way up to the grill for food. 

After continually serving the students for about 2 hours, it seemed like finally everyone was full. 

We had such an awesome time, and we can't wait for the beach party this Friday!! 

By Ty Mussack, program coordinator at OC 

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