The Human Resources Center in the Dongnae neighborhood wanted to send you all a big welcome to CDI April English Academies in Busan, Changwon and Gimhae cities. Great work in getting through the training and best wishes in getting through your first week! The past week must have been hectic, but things will settle down & you’ll feel like a regular Busan citizen soon enough.
Led by Busanjin CDI’s Head Instructor Anthony Nguyen, Injoong Education, Parent company of the 15 branches of CDI and April English in Busan, Changwon and Kimhae cities bussed around a few short of 100 volunteers who were mostly teachers to four different orphanages on an early Sunday morning.
(Vincent) Santa Claus (Marion)
Devin and Tamara hanging with the kids
The many CDI April English teachers and volunteers gave up their precious day off and spent close to 8 hours to hand out gifts, food and sing Christmas carols to over 300 orphans.
Joey tells a kid a story
Chris leads the carolers
The orphanages were in Dongrae, Gwangan and Haeundae. More than 300 gifts were purchased by the volunteers and CDI teachers to give to the children.
Jareb and kids
Head Trainer Tim with kids
On November 31st, Jareb Steines organised a Scavenger Hunt for the teachers at all of our branches. We met up at Busan tower in Nampodong at 11am and completed various tasks, like ‘taking a photo of a team member giving W1,000 to a child under the age of 4′ and ‘taking a team photo in front of a Family Mart (convenience store) wearing face masks’. A fun time was had by all attendees.
Here are the participants who were lucky enough to make it to the final destination in the basement floor of the Lotte Department Store in Seomyeon. Congratulations to Team Dongnae for completing more than 30 tasks and winning the event. Also, thanks go out to Jareb Steines for all of his organisation efforts.
Jason Medley holding a stranger’s dog at Busan tower. Obtaining photographs like these was a major part of the scavenger hunt.
Jason feeding Chris Bacon some kim chi
Chris, Noemi Lopez and Jason posing with some flowers
For our recent Halloween, we held special events at all of our April English branches for the younger students. Staff and teachers spent long hours preparing their schools with special decorations and costumes. On the day, special Halloween-themed lessons and games were enjoyed by the students with candy prizes. Photos from our various branches are below!
This was a very successful event for our schools and teachers.
Come and join us next time!
On October 12th 2008, the 15 CDI and April English branches from Busan and Changwon cities met together at the grounds of Yeonsan Middle School for a company-wide sports day. Events included Foot Baseball, Tug-of-war, Karaoke and Dodgeball. In the end, a lot of laughs were had and many new friendships between the branches were made.
Such events are symbolic of the cohesion and friendliness between the CDI South community and we look forward to the next gathering at the end of the year.
Warm up exercises in the morning.
The dodgeball matches were hotly contended.
For lunch, the company spent US$1500 on food, including two roast pigs, as well as $500 on beer! It’s just our way of saying “Thank you for all your hard work!”
Who wants a scooter ride with the CEO?
The object of this game was to hold the material so that someone could race across it
Teamwork is vital whenever you have a giant floating ball to bounce
Massaging each others shoulders in preparation for Tug-o-war!
Glenn Shriver clocking around 75 mph on the turn. Note the faint trail of vaporised sand in his wake.
A flawless baton exchange between Mr Hong, the Gwangan branch manager and Mrs Lee, the Hwamyeong April manager
A Photo finish. By sacrificing his body, Mr Hong wins the day with a perfectly timed dive at lightning speed.
Jef Robison and Amanda Johnson lighten the mood with some stand-up comedy.
It was an enjoyable day for all. Come and join us next time!
