XLIII - Loyola Jesuit College

INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF JESUIT EDUCATORS AT LJCFrom the 11th to the 14th of January 2010, there will be a gathering at Loyola Jesuit College of ten delegatesof Jesuit Secondary Education. The delegates will be coming from ten different Jesuit Provinces:Dan CarmodyJean de Dieu RandrianaivoJohn Bosco HayesJose Alberto MesaKalubi Nsukami AugustinMike LewisPaul MayeresaFr. Ignace SamulenziWilliam Tcheumtchoua NzaliEmmanuel UgwejehUSA (Boston College High)MadagascarZambiaColombiaDemocratic Republic of CongoSouth Africa (President of JESAM)ZimbabweRwanda/BurundiCameroonNorth West AfricaSUMMER 2011 - TRAVEL AND LEARNLast summer, 11 LJC students and their siblings spent two weeks in California on a summerexcursion. The trip, 2010 ESL and American Culture Program, was designed by the College of Extended &International Education at California State University, Dominguez Hills, California. The visiting studentswere given ample exposure to American culture and customs. Our children visited Long Beach, UniversalStudios, Disneyland, and took a trip to the Grand Canyon. We saw the bright lights of Las Vegas.The memories of that trip will remain for a long time. To travel is to learn.Summer 2011 holds two different destinations. The first is in the UK – the David Beckham Academy.It features two weeks of soccer training at the David Beckham Academy, London. Alongside will beexcursions to Funcoast World, the Legend tour to Arsenal’s Emirates Stadium and Manchester United’s OldTrafford. There will also be an educational Multimedia study Tour to the central office of the BritishBroadcasting Corporation (BBC) in London. The cost of this tour per student is N650,000.00 (Six Hundredand Fifty Thousand Naira only).The second is a combined tour to California State University, Los Angeles, and Orlando Magic BasketballAcademy in Orlando, Florida. On the California itinerary, we have a visit to UCLA’s Getty Museum, SanDiego’s Sea World. There will be interactive classes on critical thinking, effective communication, leadershipand etiquette. We will also visit the Museum of Tolerance in Los Angeles, Universal Studios, and tour theBeach Cities of Redondo, Venice and Santa Monica. We will then spend a week at Orlando Magic BasketballAcademy in Orlando, Florida. The cost of this latter programme is $5,650.00 (Five Thousand, Six Hundredand Fifty US Dollars only).Parents are invited to register their children for either programme. Early registration attracts adiscount! For details about these tours, please contact Mrs. Omotayo Smith of our English Languagedepartment: smith@loyolajesuit.org or 0807 226 2956. NOTE: Please be reminded that the above tours areneither organized nor run by Loyola Jesuit College. You may contact our Admin Office for clarifications.6