4) CD Busan Events

Busan CD and April Teachers Support the Orphanage Community during the Holidays

Led by Busanjin CD’s former head instructor Anthony Nguyen, Injoong Education, Parent company of the 17 branches of CD and April English in Busan, Changwon and Gimhae cities bussed around a few short of 100 volunteers who were mostly teachers to four different orphanages on an early Sunday morning.

Santa Claus Vince

Devin and Tamara with the Kids

The many CD 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 Story

Chris Leads the Carolers

The orphanages were in Dongrae, Gwangan and Haeundae. More than 300 gifts were purchased by the volunteers and CD teachers to give to the children.

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Finalists of the 2008 CD South Scavenger Hunt

On November 31st, Jareb Steines, Head Instructor of CD Dongrae, 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 some kimchi

Chris, Noemi and Jason posing with some flowers

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A Happy Halloween for our April Branches!

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!

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The First Busan CD and April Sports Day!

On October 12th 2008, the 15 CD 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 CD South community and we look forward to the next gathering at the end of the year.

Morning warm-up exercises

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!”