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    4 Weeks in San Diego!

    By CISL SD Student, Linda Sintniklaas (The Netherlands) San Diego’s Little Italy When you are staying in Vantaggio in San Diego, you will live in Little Italy. This is a little village in the centre of San Diego with a lot of restaurants, cafés and bars. People here will speak to you in Italian and [...]

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    A Day in the Life of a Student Living Abroad

    By CISL SD student, Linda Sintniklaas (Netherlands)       “This morning I woke up with such a good feeling! I felt really happy! Maybe you are wondering why I felt so happy this morning? It was because of my experiences as a travelling student in San Diego. During my stay here I came to [...]

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    What makes San Diego, San Diego?

    By CISL SD student, Dianne Kuijs (The Netherlands) Do you know the feeling of arriving in a new city? When everything is strange to you? When you even have to find out where the nearest supermarket or what the best way is to travel from place to place? I experienced all that when I arrived [...]

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    Baseball in downtown San Diego, such as sport must be!

    By Linda Sintniklaas, The Netherlands (CISL San Diego Student) If you think you can’t go to a good baseball match in San Diego, you’re totally wrong! The home stadium of the Padres is located in San Diego, named the Petco Park. This stadium is the property of the much appreciated San Diego Padres, ‘the’ baseball [...]

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When you go to CISL, you never know what country your dinner guests will be from!

Writing Contest Winners: If you could invite ANY three people to dinner, who would you invite? Why?

If you could invite ANY three people to dinner (from the past or present), who would you invite, and why? We asked our CISL students this question earlier this month and were so impressed with their responses! From dictators to famous authors to ancestors, our students put together some fascinating–and delicious!–dinners. Congratulations to Hind Alrajhi, [...]

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A walking culinary tour of San Francisco

Attention, food lovers! Are you interested in learning more about the flavors of San Francisco restaurants? Check out Foodie Adventures for a walking culinary tour of one of San Francisco’s districts… and come hungry! Participants can choose from many different tours. Would you like to learn more about the city’s Latin American cuisine? Sign up [...]

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A haunting experience: ghost tours in Old Town San Diego

Halloween, the holiday of goblins and scary creatures, is on October 31st… but San Diegans enjoy a little scare in other months of the year, too! Would you like a thrilling adventure? Check out the Past and Presence Ghost Tours this Friday. The tours, which take place on April 27 from 10am to 11:30pm, take visitors [...]