Archive for April, 2011

Boston Marathon

Geoffrey Mutai, Boston Marathon 2011

It was a wonderful experience to be here in Boston for watch the 115th annual Boston Marathon. I went with some classmates from ELC and our teacher Janet. We met at Kenmore Station, one mile from the finish line, and first watched the wheelchairs runners and then the other runners going to the finish line.

So many people were there to encourage the runners in their last mile. Everyone was cheering, whistling, clapping and making a lot of noise with bells.

Geoffrey Mutai from Kenya won this race with a time of 2h:03mi:02sec. In the wheelchair division the winner was Masazumi Soejima from Japan with 1h:18mi:50sec. In women’s division Caroline Kilei from Kenya was the winner with 2h:22mi:36sec. In women’s wheelchair division Wakako Tsuchida from Japan won with 1h:30mi:21sec.

More of 25000 runners participated in this important race, which is one of the World Majors Marathons (WMM) with New York, Berlin, London and Chicago.

When I arrived in Boston last January, I tried to register to run this race but the registration process was already closed on October 18 last year. It was the first time in the Boston Marathon’s history that this process only was 24 hours and over 25000 people registered.

I hope come back to Boston and run this important race but first, I will run the Berlin marathon in September 2011.

by Cesar Augusto Cardona from Colombia



2011
04/22
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ELC Los Angeles Fundraises for the International Rescue Committee for Japan

On March 23, 2011, ELC Los Angeles held a bake sale to help the earthquake relief efforts in Japan. Students, faculty, staff, and even neighboring offices and businesses turned out in massive numbers to contribute to the cause and to feast upon the homemade baked and fried goods donated by the same students and staff. Along with the generous baked donations of the Pacific French Bakery, the bake sale became even more wildly successful. ELC Los Angeles has previously worked with the International Rescue Committee (IRC) to aid relief efforts in Haiti, and now the IRC is working with Peace Winds Japan to assist humanitarian work in Japan. 

 

Admin Assistant Yang Yang and Student Services Coordinator James Benito set up tables in the student lounge and were quickly overwhelmed with students before class, during breaks, during lunch, and even after school! Delicious fried pies, decadent brownies, cookies, frosted cakes, cupcakes, and Yang’s fried eggrolls quickly sold resulting in the bake sale total of $718!  

 

In a gesture of pure generosity, ELC has decided to double the amount raised to a grand total of $1436! 

 

ELC would like to extend a big “THANK YOU” to those that helped make this bake sale successful.


2011
04/05
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