Category Archives: Spotlight

ACTFL Interviews Counselors & Villagers

August 20, 2009
By Jamie-CLV

August 3 – 6 Concordia Language Villages hosted the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL) Oral Proficiency Interview workshop. Fifty language educators from across the United States came to Bemidji to receive training in how to assess…

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Salolampi’s Five-Year Family

August 7, 2009
By Jamie-CLV

Jim and Donna Kovala (Aarne and Oona) of Osage, Minn. received their five-year medallions at Salolampi’s closing program for session IB 68, when they came to pick up three of their grandchildren. Elle LaMere (Elli), Tess Kovala (Tiia), and August…

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My First Year at Camp

June 26, 2009
By Jamie-CLV

This story was transcribed word-for-word from Miri's original story. The Villages
By: Emmelyn Miri King, 8 years old

Hi, my name is Emmelyn and last year I was a beginer like you. The way I decided my language village was that my dad went to Korea and I…

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Day Camps to Summer Villages

June 26, 2009
By Jamie-CLV

The first year that eight-year-old twins Katie and Lucy attended the Language Villages, they came as day campers. Though their mother, Debbie Hamill, had been a villager herself at Waldsee from 1977 to 1980 and their siblings Grant and…

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One Last Summer at Camp

June 26, 2009
By Jamie-CLV

My husband and I had just completed all of the post-graduate school rites of passage at the University of Iowa earlier this year: the days-long apartment cleaning, the goodbyes to colleagues, mentors and friends, one last Ped Mall hurrah. D.D.S.…

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Erhard Friedrichsmeyer

June 26, 2009
By Jamie-CLV

On a fishing trip through Minnesota’s Lake of the Woods in 1960 an idea was born. Education professor Dr. Gerhard K. Haukebo and German language instructor Erhard Friedrichsmeyer began to discuss the idea of language camps for young children. After…

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In the World
- Waldsee Biohaus Up for Awards
  In 2007, Concordia Language Villages was proud and honored to be able to announce the Waldsee BioHaus, the first certified Passive House in North America, was nominated for two prestigious awards – in May the Transatlantic21 Association selected it in… […]
- Chloe Lewis
  From South Africa to China, India and beyond, nineteen-year-old Chloe Lewis has trekked the world on behalf of numerous organizations. She has worked in an orphanage in China’s Anhui province, participated in the AIDS Walk Africa in both South Africa… […]

Spotlight
- ACTFL Interviews Counselors & Villagers
  August 3 – 6 Concordia Language Villages hosted the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL) Oral Proficiency Interview workshop. Fifty language educators from across the United States came to Bemidji to receive training in how to assess… […]
- Salolampi’s Five-Year Family
  Jim and Donna Kovala (Aarne and Oona) of Osage, Minn. received their five-year medallions at Salolampi’s closing program for session IB 68, when they came to pick up three of their grandchildren. Elle LaMere (Elli), Tess Kovala (Tiia), and August… […]

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