Sunday, March 16, 2008

A Brief History of the Saha Branch

The CDI Saha Branch opened around July 2006. Since then, attendance has grown to around 300 students and there are 17 staff members. The branch is located in Western Busan, near Dangni Station.

This is what our school looks like from the outside. Right now there are 6 regular CDI teachers: Mr Lee, Mr Jordan, Teacher Michelle, Teacher Logan, Mr John and Ms Nicole. There are also 4 April English teachers: Teacher Liz, Mr Simon, Teacher Grace and Teacher Claire. Teacher Cassie is our special Teukmokgol program instructor.

Here's a promotional video for the Chungdahm Institute in Korea.

In December last year all of the CDI teachers had an end-of-year celebration. During this time a lot of food was eaten and competitions were held. Here is Mr John competing against another teacher in the arm wrestling competition. Mr John is very strong.

Here are some of the administration staff at the dinner.

And this is Mr Kang, the CEO of most of the CDI branches in Busan.

Here's Ms Nicole and Christine enjoying a dinner after a long week of work.

Saha teachers like to read English books all the time. Even on the subway.

This photo is from Head Instructor training in Seoul. CDI teachers are trained to do many different things.

Sometimes students at the Saha branch can be naughty. Mr Lee makes naughty students write lines during breaktime. It's important to finish all of your homework and not be noisy!

This is Joe, who is now in Bridge Reading. Joe likes to balance the desk on his lap so that he can be closer to his work and study harder. Do you study this hard?

Here is a photo from (the branch manager) Julie's birthday. You will probably never find out her age.

Here is another Julie, who is now in Birdie Reading. Julie is looking at the camera because she is curious about the shutter speed.

After that, all of the students wanted to have a closer look. Here are Annie, June, Julie and Cuttlefish Ben. They are good students and study hard for their tests.

And here's a big photo of June. June says to all of the CDI students "Study hard so you can be in Birdie Reading, just like me!"

- Written by Mr Lee

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