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Here are some photos of our big celebration party....Hosain and Aboud made us wonderful Saudi Arabian food. We ate the delicious meal and then began discussing what project we would do during the second half of the semester for our Tutoring Club. We decided that we wanted to change our name to Tutoring Club. During our discussions we decided that we wanted to produce a skit. We talked about who would be the actors, actresses, producer, director, make up artist, food person and so on. We adjourned after we decided that we would come back the next Tuesday with ideas on what the skit would be about. We will write the skit, put it up on the wiki, practice it, have Kay record it and practice it some more and then record back to a site like drop.io, produce it, put it on YouTube and so on.




 * Tuesday's assignment: Come to class with ideas on what our skit is going to be about.**

Tuesday's work. We worked together and the students decided that they would have a skit about the upcoming vacation in December. I would ask the students something like "What do you all plan to do on your vacation" or we could have a discuusion about the fact that we have a vacation coming up and how neat that is. Then each student will tell about their vacation plans. So far we have the following ideas. We will use such things as photos, videos, pictures, video machine, cameras, drop io.


 * Joe.** He will talk about going back to Germany and how he has been communicating with his wife through Skype and e-mail He will use the internet....to show us where he lives and we will attach the link on the wikipage.
 * Linnie**. She will stay in the U.S. and visit relatives in Washington State. She will give us a travel guide.
 * Breiden.** He will go to Venezuela and give us a tour.
 * Andres.** He will go to Colombia...he will visit family in Bogota and see his grandparents graves.
 * Hosain**. He will go to Saudi Arabia


 * Next Tuesday's assignment. Come with your ideas so that we can write your dialogues and research your photos...videos etc.**

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 * LINNIE**: I will go to Washington to visit my uncle for a few days. He lives in Seattle, Washington. Washington State is in the Northwest of the United States. On Christmas Day, we will have a special dinner at my uncle's house and I will meet many people from Vietnam. After that I will go to visit downtown Seattle and then go see Mt.Ranier. There will be snow on Mt. Ranier and I have never seen snow, so that will be very exciting.

Here is a recording of Linnie's paragraph: []


 * JOE**

After I finished the “ELP Fall Semester 2010” I am looking forward to going back to my home country, Germany. Exactly I will go to Wiesbaden, my hometown. Wiesbaden is the state capitol of Hesse which is located near Frankfurt. But right now I am in the second week of the seven week half-semester. Until I am flying back to Germany I have to study and improve my English, learn the American way of life and make some new friends. I think I will miss the students and the ELP.

Below there is a picture of the house, where I live with my wife in a condo. The house is called “Kaiser-Friedrich-Therme”. Therme means spa. Under the building is a hot spring.



This is a recording of Joe's paragraph: []

1. Hi Alejandra 2. Hi Andrés 1. How are you Alejandra? 2. I’m very angry. I can’t go to my country on vacation. 1. Oh, so sorry for you. 2. I couldn’t find a cheap ticket; my mom is missing me 1. I’ve already purchased my ticket. I am going to Bogota, Colombia 2. Really? It´s great for you, and tell me about your vacation to your country. What are you going to do? 1. First. I will go up to Monserrate Mountain 2. A mountain in the middle of the city? 1. Yes, there is an important church on the top of the mountain 2. Wow! I’m think that its awesome! 1. In that place you can see all the city and you could eat at the only restaurant over there or could just walk around the mountain
 * ANDRES:**



2. How can you climb up to the top?

1. There are two ways to climb: by telesferico or funicular 2. Can you explain me what is the telesferico, please? 1. Telesferico is moving up througa h wire line and all the time you are suspended 2. And what is the funicular? 1. It’s a little train that you ride up the mountain 2. Oh! This place is fantastic, and how tall is the mountain? 1. It´s about 3.200mts, it´s very high 2. It sounds a good plan 1. Yes, and the other plan is to go to visit my grandmother in the cemetery, it´s a promise 2. Ok, Andres, I would like to go to Bogotá sometime 1. Yes its great. Ok Alejandra bye 2. Bye Andres good luck in your trip!

**We are in the progress of continuing to make our dialogues and here is a discussion of our vacation plans**media type="file" key="wikispaces second try.mp3" width="240" height="20"


 * And here is a short movie of our production in progress: **


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 * Here we have Brieden's trip:media type="file" key="breidin's trip_0001.wmv" width="300" height="300"**