Contributed by Sarah Milburn, Business English Communication Instructor, ILSC-Montreal. For those of you who don’t know, KIVA is a non-profit organisation with a mission to connect people through lending to alleviate poverty. Leveraging the internet and a worldwide network of microfinance institutions, KIVA lets individuals lend as little as $25 to help create opportunities around…
How learning English is helping me achieve my dreams!
Contributed by Sébastien Wagnières, student at ILSC-Toronto. I decided to organize a language stay to improve my English for my future. I believe in today’s world, it is really important to have skills in a language other than your own and also it is important to live a new experience. ILSC-Toronto is not only about going…
How I prepared for the IELTS exam, and succeeded!
Contributed by Poly Monreal, former student at ILSC-Vancouver. Why I took the IELTS exam At the beginning I decided to take the IELTS so I could have more jobs opportunities when I came back to Mexico, but while I was studying the exam, I did a little more research and found out that it wouldn’t…
ILSC Montreal raises funds for the Humanitarian Coalition
Contributed by Mona Sabouri, CSR committee member and ESL Teacher at ILSC Montreal In January 2016, a student of mine decided to present on the current state of Syria and its millions of refugees. Bruna Aparecida Dos Santos’ presentation was quite moving. She made me want to do something about this and well, I brought it to…
How Canada changed my perspective on life
Contributed by Juan Jose Cardenas, former student at ILSC-Toronto. “Do the difficult things while they are easy and do the great things while they are small. A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step” Lao-Tzu. It is quite difficult to put into words the love that I have developed for Canada and…