CCAA - Second edition - 06/05/2011

That night was crowded!!!! I mean it!!!! eh eh !!!

Not forgetting that our friend straight from Germany, Simon, came to join a bit more of his communicative knowledge.

Look there!!!! The newest stars. :P

These guys look really concentrated, don't they? ;)

One more time our usual reunion has occured at CCAA with a numerous amount of visitors gathering for the "feast". This time we've had Karim Abu Bakr - aged 21 , Russian and fluent in Spanish, French and English. He's been here since December 2010 charging his bateries before moving back to Europe. He's actually an International journalist who's just graduated and been working as an ocassional translator.

Conversation club - Anniversary edition - 25 March - 2011

At last, we're back to our usual meetings and so far things have been pretty much the same but the current meeting having had a party throwing taste. For those who remember Steven Alexander he came again as he was on the first edition. The second guest is a German volunteer from SEARA here in Santarém - PA - Brazil, just 20 years old and already with a CAE Cambridge Cerificate. Yeah !!! Way to go to everyone who came on the 25/03/2011 to Paraíso Shopping Mall and enjoyed the open space conversation at a fancy and different atmosphere (air conditioning spot, back sound music and restaurant buffet meals à la carte and au menu). For those who have lost the meeting you gotta wait for next meeting yet to be announced. Special thanks to CCAA - Santarém and to Mighel Touzon - the Shopping Mall's marketing director.

Last session: November 2010

At last the end has come and a year went by. Thanks to all those students (and ex-students) a dream has come true and a new horizon of English speaking expectations is on its way to 2011. Once again Mike (the American-off-duty soldier) came along with his outgoing four-year-old son Fabrício to present his slides, and therefore his adventures, to show what he did and the places he went for a month.The ever electric son did his part to amuse the talk and the guests played theirs as the time went by silently, only to finally display the end of another conversation meeting at 8:30 p.m. Hopes there are that the forthcoming sessions will be unforgetable and dinamic, so to say what the future lies ahead next year. Nuff said.

Escola Flávio Serique session: 1st time November/2010

For the first time we've managed to open a session at Esc. Prof. Flávio Serique to finally extend the feast to other spots. This time our guest was the American - soldier Mike who's become a Brazilian culture interested. He talked to two different level classes (Elementary and Intermediate) at the upstairs spot of the stablishment under the city's stary sky. Needless to say, his interest started by getting married to a Brazilian originally from our city who had lived in Germany where both met. Their union produced two boys and their first one (Fabrício) participated as our guest, as well.

Conversation club session - October/2010

One more time we are back to the usual session we're so fond of. This time we've received only one guest who ended up being our exclusive American visitor. Her name is Katie Ackman, she's 30 years old and is a nurse serving the Igreja da Paz with frequent visits to poor communities as a missionary. She's been here for only six months and she's already capable of speaking Portuguese quite well for such a short period. Her presence has only been accomplished with the help of our dear friend Dolores Messer who's also participated as she spent seven yars in the US and knows the crountry's, language and cultural indiosyncrasis pretty much like an American.

Second Semester - Second session

24/09/2010. Once more we've received new guests and had our usual two-hour talk from 6:30 pm to 8:30 pm. The guests we invited were three. The two first ones were a couple who's been living in Santarém for 18 years and are also English teachers. Their names are Dan and Brenda Caldwell and they are missionaries teaching English at Batista School twice a week with two different groups, using extracts of the Bible to start their dicussions in English. Our third guest is European, precisely from Barcelona-Spain. That's Laura, she's the newest CCAA Spanish teacher and used to work in Ireland. She lived there for 9 years and worked for the private sector of Hewlet Packard International Bank - a branch of Hewlet Packard. She's a Tax Specialist in VAT (Value Added Tax) and has also given her contribution for the evening.