San Francisco is close to incredible tourist destinations: Napa Valley, the Northern California Redwood forests, Yosemite, Sacramento, Santa Cruz, and many more beautiful locales are just a road trip away! One road trip is the perfect destination any time of year: Lake Tahoe. Located in the Sierra Nevada mountain range that separates California from Nevada,...
The holidays mean delicious foods, warm drinks, celebrations with friends and family . . . and shopping! There are plenty of great places to go shopping in San Francisco and San Diego, and today we will take a look at some of the best places to go shopping for Christmas gifts. But first, let’s take...
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...
Today the CISL Blog continues its series on the neighborhoods of San Diego and San Francisco with an overview of one of the more vibrant areas of San Francisco: Chinatown. This colorful, flavorful, and exotic neighborhood is the largest Chinatown outside of Asia and an exciting cultural and culinary experience for visitors! Location Surrounded by...
I have been studying at CISL San Francisco for 2 months. I want to improve my writing and reading skills for the TOEFL Exam. My listening skills are okay because I watch T.V. in English. My goal for the TOEFL is 102 because I want to get my MBA in Marketing in California. This was...
Is Union Square really a square? Actually, it is! Union Square is created by Geary, Powell, Stockton, and Post streets. The square became a public space in 1849, when San Francisco’s first mayor, John White Geary, designated the area for public use. How did Union Square get its name? During the Civil War, (when...
