Visiting San Francisco’s best movie theater: Sundance Cinema Kabuki
It’s movie time! Find your assigned seat, order your cocktail, enjoy your Shrimp Ceviche Salad and your Chocolate Ganache Cheesecake, and enjoy! If this does not sound like the typical movie experience, that is because it isn’t: you aren’t watching a movie in a run-of-the-mill movie theater, you are experiencing a movie at Sundance Cinema [...]
Restaurants with the best beach views in San Diego
San Diego received its nickname “America’s Finest City” for many reasons, and one is of course its stunning beaches. What better way to enjoy the views of the city’s rocky coastlines and sandy beaches than by combining the view with delicious foods? We have a list of some of the best restaurants for CISL students [...]
ESL student activity: Hawaii-inspired “I Love Poke” festival, May 29
Beautiful Hawaii is just a plane ride away from California, and a trip that many CISL students take while they are studying in the U.S. The one food that all tourists must try while visiting Hawaii is the famous dish “poke.” Pronounced “po-key,” this dish is the Hawaiian version of sushi. Raw tuna is mixed [...]
Culinary suggestion for international students: California-style sushi
It may seem strange to come to the United States to eat Japanese food, but many international students studying English in the U.S. are excited to find that Americans LOVE sushi! Most students–especially those who have been to or are from Japan–note that the sushi you find in California restaurants can be different from the [...]
San Francisco Food Truck Adventure
San Francisco has so many different restaurants that a person could eat at a different restaurant every day for a year, and still not even scratch the surface of the diversity of restaurants available. Now this list of eateries has gotten even longer because of the delicious food available on wheels. That’s right, FOOD [...]
Suggested English student activity: try fish tacos in SD
Fish . . . in a taco? Stranger things have been eaten! Living and studying in San Diego means weekends on the beach in Coronado, great shopping, a fun nightlife downtown and in Pacific Beach. But it also means EATING! What is there to eat in San Diego that you cannot get elsewhere? Fish tacos. [...]
Suggested international student activity: San Francisco’s famous clam chowder bread bowls!
A soup with an edible bowl? Genius! One of San Francisco’s most famous foods is the clam chowder bread bowl. At CISL, we consider it a “must try” food while living and studying in the U.S. What IS a clam chowder bread bowl? The dish consists of clam chowder, which is a thick soup made [...]
International Student Question: What are American Easter traditions?
Today people around the world will celebrate Easter. For some, the holiday is religious: for all, it is about food! But what kinds of food? And what traditions are typical of an American Easter? Our CISL students asked the question. The following are some common American Easter traditions: Dying Easter Eggs Even adults will admit [...]
Studying abroad activity suggestion: celebrate St. Patrick’s Day with Corned Beef and Cabbage!
Happy St. Patrick’s Day! March 17 is the day that Americans wear green clothes, drink green beer, and eat a typical Irish meal: corned beef and cabbage. It’s not St. Patrick’s Day without this delicious dish! What IS corned beef? Despite the name, there is no corn in corned beef. The word “corn” comes from [...]
CISL students celebrate Pi (pie) with delicious dessert in SD and SF
Today is March 14 (3-14). Do you know what that means? It is Pi day! Americans jokingly celebrate Pi day (3-14) as “Pie” day. Suddenly, the date that looks like a mathematical number (3.141592654 . . . ) becomes a day to eat delicious dessert! Do you know where to find delicious pies or other [...]
