Here Without You

Here Without You
By: Le Tat Thang (Romeo)

Day by day for a long time, I haven’t seen you so I want to write my feelings about you just to let you know: How much I miss you!The first time I arrived here in the Philippines, I didn’t know what to do. Everything is very difficult to me. My days would be so empty and the nights so long. I usually wish you can stay here with me. But after all I make friends. I enjoyed each moment with them. Now everything with me is ok but still you are bothering me. I am thinking of you each moment I am awake and you’re always in my dreams everytime I am asleep.
I can’t stop myself thinking of you and one thing is for sure even if we’re miles apart, you’re always in my heart.

Story of Shoji Sato

Story of Shoji Sato

In CELI, there are many great experiences. First, you can have a lot of chances to speak English. In my case, I wanted to improve my speaking ability and vocabulary. So I told these things to my teacher. In the class, my teacher gives me a lot of activities to practice speaking English and learn new vocabularies. I can talk about anything I want. Teachers here are very good listeners. You can use English not only inside but also outside the class. Here in CELI, everyone is your English teacher. You can talk with school staff, receptionist, security, housekeeper attendants and so on. Through the conversation, you will understand a lot of things, you can talk with your friends from other countries. In CELI there are many nationalities. This is the second good experience for me. I could make friends from Korea, China, Taiwan, Vietnam and Russia. Through talking with each other or playing, you can notice some differences between cultures. Finally, you can do a lot of things in Cebu island. There are many kinds of restaurants, shopping malls, beautiful beaches and other islands on weekends. I often go scuba diving, island hopping, visiting tourist attractions or traditional places like tops and others. Tops is a place where we can view all over Cebu City. I went there with my friends, enjoying the views and star gazing which was a great experience for me.
In CELI, you can experience a lot of things that you can do only in the Philippines and not in other countries, so if you want to have the same experiences that I had, come to CELI.

Thank you.

Story of Nguyen Phi

Story of Nguyen Phi

On 13th June 2009, my mother and I arrived at Mactan Cebu International Airport and then went out of the airport. We could easily find CELI driver with a big board among the flock.
It was about 9p.m. We got our room from one front office staff with a smile. He gave us the keys, some “house rules” and some advice for our stay. That was kind and hearty.In the next few days, my mom and I decided to go to “Save More” and I lost my ID card there. I was very surprised that I couldn’t explain to the customer service staff. She said she couldn’t understand me. I used to think that I had good English speaking skill because I was the best in my class before. I told all my teachers about that experience. And they helped me a lot. I received the pronunciation lessons, speaking and other skills. Now, that I have been here in CELI for 3months, there are many things that have changed. A lot of teachers and students left. New students and new friends came and the biggest change is my English improvement. But there is one thing that has never changed -- that is the kindness, sincerity and the cheerfulness of each teacher and staff here. I think this is what I will never forget.