Friday, December 31, 2010

Upcoming Mexican Cooking Classes - Jan 24 and Feb 22

The Mexican Kitchen: Soups and Stews
with Ana Jackson
Monday, Janaury 24, 6–9 pm
Cordata Co-op/register at WCC (360-383-3200)
$39 members and non-members

The Mexican Kitchen: Sunday Dinner
with Ana Jackson
Tuesday, February 22, 6-9 pm
Cordata Co-op, register at WCC (383-3200)
$45 members and non-members

Wednesday, December 22, 2010

Give the Gift of Language this Holiday Season!

Gift cards available for any amount or for particular courses or private classes.

To purchase gift card, email Sarah Rowan at Sarah@SaludSpanish.com or call 360-383-7002.

Credit card payments and checks accepted.

www.SaludSpanish.com

Saturday, December 11, 2010

8 Week Intermediate/Advanced Discussion



Mondays, 7:00-8:15pm, January 10 - February 28,

Firehouse Performing Arts  1314 Harris Ave Bellingham WA

Class Fee $170* (includes course materials) *10% companion discount

For more information or to register:
Call 360-383-7002 or email Sarah@SaludSpanish.com.
360-383-7002    www.SaludSpanish.com

8 week Beginner Spanish 2

 

Wednesdays, 7:00-8:15pm, January 12 - March 2,

Firehouse Performing Arts  1314 Harris Ave Bellingham WA 

Class Fee $170* (includes course materials) *10% companion discount

For more information or to register:
Call 360-383-7002 or email Sarah@SaludSpanish.com.
360-383-7002    www.SaludSpanish.com

Wednesday, December 8, 2010

8-Week Beginner Spanish 1

Mondays, 10:45am-12:00pm, January 10 - February 28,

Community Food Co-Op 1220 N Forest St. Bellingham WA


Fee:$170* (includes course materials) *10% co-op member discount

For more information or to register:
Call 360-383-7002 or email Sarah@SaludSpanish.com.
360-383-7002    www.SaludSpanish.com

8 Week Intermediate Spanish Class 1:

Mondays 2:00-3:15pm, January 10 - February 28,

Community Food Co-Op 1220 N. Forest Bellingham WA

Class Fee $170* (includes course materials) *10% co-op member discount

For more information or to register:
Call 360-383-7002 or email Sarah@SaludSpanish.com.
360-383-7002    www.SaludSpanish.com

8 Week Beginner Spanish 2

 

Mondays 12:15-1:30 pm January 10- February 28th.

Community Food So-op 1220 N. Forest St Bellingham WA

Class Fee $170 * 10% co-op member discount

For more information or to register:
Call 360-383-7002 or email Sarah@SaludSpanish.com.
360-383-7002    www.SaludSpanish.com

8 Week Beginner Spanish Class 1:

Tuesdays, 7:00-8:15pm, January 11 - March 1,

Firehouse Performing Arts  1314 Harris Ave Bellingham WA

Class fee:$170* (includes course materials) *10% companion discount

For more information or to register:
Call 360-383-7002 or email Sarah@SaludSpanish.com.
360-383-7002    www.SaludSpanish.com

Tuesday, November 30, 2010

10 good reasons why you should be learning a foreign language

1. To increase global understanding

2. To improve employment potential

3. To increase native language ability

4. To sharpen cognitive and life skills

5. To improve chances of entry into college or graduate school

6. To appreciate international literature, music, and film

7. To make travel more feasible and enjoyable

8. To expand study abroad options

9. To increase understanding of oneself and one's own culture

10. To make lifelong friends

Read this article in full... http://www.vistawide.com/languages/why_languages.htm

Thursday, November 18, 2010

2-Week Spanish Courses Beginning November 29-Register Now!

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2-Week Beginner Spanish 1 course: 

November 29 - December 10 
Mondays, Thursdays, and Fridays, 9:30-11:00am (9 hours of instruction)
Community Food Co-Op 1220 N. Forest St Bellingham WA 98225
$170* (includes course materials) *10% co-op member discount

2-Week Spanish Review courses: 

November 29 - December 10 
Mondays and Fridays, 11:30am-12:45pm (Beginner) and 1:00-2:15pm (Int/Adv)
Community Food Co-Op 1220 N. Forest St Bellingham WA 98225
$75 (10% co-op member discount)

2-Day Spanish for Health Care: 

Friday, Dec 3, 3:00-6:00pm and Saturday, Dec 4, 9:00am-12:00pm
Community Food Co-Op 1220 N. Forest St Bellingham WA 98225
$125* (includes course materials) *10% co-op member discount

 

For more information or to register:
Call 360-383-7002 or email Sarah@SaludSpanish.com.
www.SaludSpanish.com

Tuesday, November 9, 2010

¡Salud! Spanish: ¡Hola Clase de Lectura!

¡Salud! Spanish: ¡Hola Clase de Lectura!: "Si están interesadas, podemos empezar un blog aquí para intercambiar ideas, preguntas, dudas, triunfos, etc. No tengo mucha experiencia con ..."

¡Hola Clase de Lectura!

Si están interesadas, podemos empezar un blog aquí para intercambiar ideas, preguntas, dudas, triunfos, etc. No tengo mucha experiencia con blogs pero puede ser una manera útil de conversar como clase durante la semana.
¿Cómo les va con la lectura?

Monday, November 1, 2010

¡Feliz día de los muertos!

There's some nice footage on this video of the Day of the Dead traditions. It's lengthy (1.5 hours) but easy to fast forward and hit main sections if your short on time. 

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Saturday, October 30, 2010

2-Week End of Year Reviews/Book Club

Monday and Friday 4 sessions in total, November 29 - December 10,

Community Food Co-Op 1220 N. Forest St Bellingham WA 98225

Option A: Beginner 1 & 2: 11:30am-12:45pm or

Option B: Inter/Adv: 1:00-2:15pm

Class fee:$75 (10% co-op member discount)

For more information or to register:
Call 360-383-7002 or email Sarah@SaludSpanish.com.
360-383-7002    www.SaludSpanish.com

Tuesday, October 26, 2010

Two Week Intensive Beginner Spanish 1

Monday, Thursday, Friday, 9:30-11:00am, Nov. 29 - Dec. 10,

Community Food Co-Op 1220 N. Forest St Bellingham WA 98225


$170* (includes course materials) *10% co-op member discount

For more information or to register:
Call 360-383-7002 or email Sarah@SaludSpanish.com.
360-383-7002    www.SaludSpanish.com

Sunday, October 24, 2010

Dia de los Muertos Family Activity Day

Dia de los Muertos Family Activity Day  

Saturday, 30 October 2010, 12:00pm - 4:00pm

$3 includes admission!/ Museum members free

Remember your loved ones and learn more about Día de los Muertos (Day of the Dead). Make tissue paper flowers,calaveras (decorated skulls), papel picado (cut tissue paper banners), and add to the collaborative ofrenda (altar). Allied Arts teaching artist Ben Mann will guide participants in making skull masks from 12-4 in the FIG studio. Stop by the FIG in your Halloween costume to receive a treat during the Downtown Trick or Treat and stay to get creative! Co-sponsored by the Allied Arts Education Project.

Location : Whatcom Museum, Lightcatcher building, 250 Flora street

 

http://www.whatcommuseum.org/events/icalrepeat.detail/2010/10/30/436/-/Y2YzZG...

Wednesday, October 20, 2010

Bellingham slowly regaining diversity

Bellingham slowly regaining diversity

 Bellingham's population was whiter in 1980 than 77 years earlier, when Fairhaven and Whatcom merged to form the city.

Visitors to Fairhaven and Whatcom in 1903 would have found a Chinese and Japanese community larger, as a percentage, than today's Asian population. But local anti-immigrant riots, combined with immigration restrictions and rapid growth of the white community, changed that.

Early Bellingham had a small black population, according to the census. But some believe there was a larger black community than what census takers found.

Bellingham has become a more diverse city over the past 20 years, thanks mostly to a burgeoning Hispanic population and renewed Asian community. However Bellingham is still more homogenous than the state or country as a whole.

By all accounts, Bellingham has come a long way from the days when local civic leaders called for driving Asians out of town and spoke admiringly of Ku Klux Klan parades.

Pedro Perez, who moved to Bellingham from California's Central Valley with his wife in 1986, said he has found locals have "opened their arms" to Hispanics, for the most part.

"Sure, you're gonna have your one freak weirdo who's against any kind of growth, especially from an ethnic group," he said.

Sometimes, Hispanic people find it harder to get a job or have to pay more for a home, said Becky Diaz, a former president of Whatcom Hispanic Organization and former member of the state Commission on Hispanic Affairs.

"Bellingham is not an in-your-face racist community," she said. "It's always gonna be subtle."

Felix Anderson, a black man and associate pastor at Bellingham's Christ the King Church, said he has not found racism in Whatcom County so much as ignorance borne from lack of experience with black people.

Bellingham's Hispanic, Asian and black communities have grown dramatically in recent decades, spawning churches, schools, restaurants, grocery stores, barber shops, social groups and other businesses and institutions.

But the city's Hispanic and black populations are still smaller, as a percentage of the population, than the country as a whole, and the Asian population is smaller than it was in 1900.

People say they still face the stares that come from being different, and the isolation that comes from not having established communities of people who share their racial and ethnic backgrounds.

"People don't stay here unless they can withstand being out of place and not having that bother them," Anderson said. "Because that's the way it is."

http://www.bellinghamherald.com/2007/11/13/233390/bellingham-slowly-regaining...

 

Monday, October 18, 2010

Reminder: Mexican Cooking Class at the Co-op tonight!

The Mexican Kitchen: The Total Tamale
with Ana Jackson
Monday, October 18, 6-9 pm
WCC course #8617
Cordata Co-op/register at WCC (383-3200)
$39 members and non-members

Wednesday, October 13, 2010

CHI-CHI-CHI-LE-LE-LE!

Does anyone recognize this chant?

Here it is in its entirety:

CHI-CHI-CHI-LE-LE-LE,

LOS MINEROS DE CHILE!

As they brought up each of the miners, you probably heard this very enthusiastic chant. It means, CHI CHI CHI, LE LE LE (FOR CHILE), THE MINERS OF CHILE!

Friday, October 8, 2010

2-Day Spanish for Health Care Workshop

Friday and Saturday, December 3 and 4,
Community Food Co-Op 1220 N. Forest St Bellingham WA
$125* (includes course materials) *10% co-op member discount

2-Week End of Year Reviews/Book Club

Monday and Friday 4 sessions in total, November 29 - December 10, Community Food Co-Op

Option A: Beginner 1 & 2: 11:30am-12:45pm or

Option B: Inter/Adv: 1:00-2:15pm

Class fee:$75 (10% co-op member discount)

2-Week End of Year Reviews/Book Club

Monday and Friday 4 sessions in total, November 29 - December 10, Community Food Co-Op

Option A: Beginner 1 & 2: 11:30am-12:45pm or

Option B: Inter/Adv: 1:00-2:15pm

Class fee:$75 (10% co-op member discount)

Sunday, September 26, 2010

Two Week Intensive Beginner Spanish 1

Monday, Thursday, Friday, 9:30-11:00am, Nov. 29 - Dec. 10, Community Food Co-Op
$170* (includes course materials) *10% co-op member discount