{"id":7188,"date":"2016-12-02T20:20:36","date_gmt":"2016-12-02T20:20:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/skylinecollege.edu\/skylineshines\/?p=7188"},"modified":"2016-12-02T20:20:36","modified_gmt":"2016-12-02T20:20:36","slug":"thanksgiving-dessert-with-esol-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skylineshines.skylinecollege.edu\/uncategorized\/thanksgiving-dessert-with-esol-students\/","title":{"rendered":"Thanksgiving Dessert with ESOL Students"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/skylinecollege.edu\/skylineshines\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2016\/12\/Thnksgiving-Dessert.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright  wp-image-7175\" src=\"http:\/\/skylinecollege.edu\/skylineshines\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2016\/12\/Thnksgiving-Dessert-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"Photos of students in various activities\" width=\"321\" height=\"181\" srcset=\"https:\/\/skylineshines.skylinecollege.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Thnksgiving-Dessert-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/skylineshines.skylinecollege.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Thnksgiving-Dessert-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/skylineshines.skylinecollege.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Thnksgiving-Dessert-600x337.jpg 600w, https:\/\/skylineshines.skylinecollege.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Thnksgiving-Dessert.jpg 1366w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 321px) 100vw, 321px\" \/><\/a>\u201cI do not want my house to be walled in on all sides and my windows to be stifled. I want cultures of all lands to be blown about my house as freely as possible.\u201d-Mohandas k. Gandhi<\/p>\n<p>In the spirit of creating a welcoming place to a diverse group of ESOL students, the English language Institute (ELI) hosted a two-day Thanksgiving celebration\u00a0on November 21st and 22nd.\u00a0 ESOL students were invited to drop in for dessert, to play games, hang out, and take fun photo booth pictures. \u00a0The ELI also set up an interactive \u201cWhat is Happiness\u2026\u201d chalkboard.\u00a0 Some of the ESOL students wrote, \u201cHappiness is having everyone you love with you\u201d, \u201cHaving good friends you can trust\u201d, and \u201cBeing able to share your struggles to help others.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Part of the ELI\u2019s vision is to foster a sense of community among ESOL students and to help them experience Skyline College as a place to belong. The diversity of the student population at Skyline College,\u00a0which includes over 300 students in the ESOL program,\u00a0is a strength and a gift. The ELI\u00a0seeks not only to help ESOL students in \u201cgetting\u00a0in\u201d and \u201cgetting through\u201d Skyline College, but also to provide services marked with a spirit of hospitality.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Article and Photo by Mylene Foo<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cI do not want my house to be walled in on all sides and my<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylineshines.skylinecollege.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7188"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylineshines.skylinecollege.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylineshines.skylinecollege.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylineshines.skylinecollege.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylineshines.skylinecollege.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7188"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skylineshines.skylinecollege.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7188\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylineshines.skylinecollege.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylineshines.skylinecollege.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylineshines.skylinecollege.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}