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COLOMBO IN BRIEF
The Centro Colombo Americano is a non-profit foundation dedicated to strengthening the cultural understanding between the United States and Colombia.
BIBLIOTECA
Ya se encuentra disponible la nueva Biblioteca Digital, donde podrá leer y escuchar cientos de eBooks y Audiobooks.
CURSOS DE INGLÉS
El Centro Colombo Americano ofrece cursos de inglés para todas las edades. Contamos con diferentes modalidades: presencial, semi presencial y virtual.
CULTURA
El centro de cultura tiene preparado para ti una amplia galería con lo mejor de su colección.
EDUCATIONUSA
El Centro EducationUSA ofrece asesoría educativa para programas académicos en Estados Unidos y realiza exámenes internacionales.
Inauguracion Colombo Suba
El Colombo tiene el gusto de invitarlos a la inauguración de su nuevo centro
Dia: 2013-08-13
Lugar: Suba 118-90
Hora: 9:51 AM
Lanzamiento nuevo programa
El nuevo programa esta dirigido a estudiantes que van a a hacer maestria
Dia: 2013-08-31
Lugar: Colombo niza
Hora: 10:03 AM
Charla informativa gratuita
Pasos para estudiar en Estados Unidos inglés, pregrado y posgrado
Dia: 2014-03-06
Lugar: Colombo Centro
Hora: 5:00 PM
Examen ECPE
Certificado de Nivel C2 de CaMLA
Dia: 2014-06-14
Lugar: Colombo Centro
Hora: 8:00 AM
Ezra Pound
30 de octubre de 1885 - 1 de noviembre de 1972 "Rhythm must have meaning." Descubra que libros de este autor tenemos en nuestra Biblioteca
Dia: 2013-10-30
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Hora: 8:39 AM
Oscar Wilde
16 de octubre de 1854 - 30 de noviembre de 1900 "Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much."
Dia: 2013-10-16
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Hora: 8:41 AM
Eugene O´Neill
16 de octubre de 1888 - 27 de noviembre de 1953 "Why am I afraid to dance, I who love music and rhythm and grace and song and laughter? Why am I afraid to live, I who love life and the beauty of flesh and the living colors of the earth and sky and sea? Why am I afraid to love, I who love love?"
Dia: 2013-10-16
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Hora: 8:43 AM
Dylan Thomas
27 de octubre de 1914 - 9 de noviembre de 1953 "Do not go gentle into that good night. Rage, rage against the dying of the light." — (In Country Sleep, and Other Poems)
Dia: 2013-10-27
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Hora: 8:47 AM
Zadie Smith
25 de octubre de 1975 "The greatest lie ever told about love is that it sets you free." — (On Beauty)
Dia: 2013-10-25
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Hora: 8:49 AM
Arthur Miller
17 de octubre de 1915 - 10 de febrero de 2005 "Don't be seduced into thinking that that which does not make a profit is without value."
Dia: 2013-10-17
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Hora: 8:51 AM
Arthur Rimbaud
20 de octubre de 1854 - 10 de noviembre de 1891 "One evening I sat Beauty on my knees – And I found her bitter – And I reviled her."
Dia: 2013-10-20
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Hora: 8:52 AM
Italo Calvino
15 de octubre de 1923 - 19 de septiembre de 1985 "A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say."— (The Uses of Literature)
Dia: 2013-10-15
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Hora: 9:00 AM
E.E. Cummings
14 de octubre de 1894 - 3 de septiembre de 1962 "It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are."
Dia: 2013-10-14
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Hora: 9:05 AM
Gore Vidal
3 de octubre de 1925 - 31 de julio de 2012. "Write something, even if it's just a suicide note. "
Dia: 2013-10-03
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Hora: 9:11 AM
Anne Rice
4 de octubre de 1941 "Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult." — (Interview with the Vampire)
Dia: 2013-10-04
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Hora: 9:13 AM
Cursos de sabados
El sábado 12 de octubre No habrá cursos el sábado y el CCA estará cerrado.
Dia: 2013-10-12
Lugar: Todas las sedes
Hora: 9:24 AM
Reading Corner
Centro: Ks:These are the Avengers / PTs: Poppleton, Niza: Ks: Clifford’s halloween / PTs: The night before Halloween, Norte: Ks: The lion and the mouse / PTs: And then comes Halloween
Dia: 2013-10-26
Lugar: Library
Hora: 9:27 AM
Reading Corner
Centro: Ks: I can be anything/ PTs: The night before Halloween, Niza: Ks: The Angora Twinnies/ PTs: And then comes Halloween, Norte: Ks: Horns to toes and in between / PTs: Female Force
Dia: 2013-10-19
Lugar: Library
Hora: 9:30 AM
Charla con DePaul University
Programas en Estados Unidos
Dia: 2013-10-24
Lugar: Colombo Centro - Exam Room
Hora: 5:00 PM
Don DeLillo
"California deserves whatever it gets. Californians invented the concept of life-style. This alone warrants their doom."
Dia: 2013-11-20
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Hora: 11:17 AM
Robert Louis Stevenson
"Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant."
Dia: 2013-11-13
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Hora: 11:19 AM
Neil Gaiman
“Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.”
Dia: 2013-11-10
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Hora: 11:25 AM
Albert Camus
"Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend."
Dia: 2013-11-07
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Hora: 11:28 AM
Stephen Crane
"Perhaps an individual must consider his own death to be the final phenomenon of nature."
Dia: 2013-11-01
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Hora: 11:35 AM
Thanksgiving
For each new morning with its light, For rest and shelter of the night, For health and food, for love and friends, For everything Thy goodness sends. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
Dia: 2013-11-28
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Hora: 11:42 AM
Veteran´s Day
“A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself. “ —Joseph Campbell
Dia: 2013-11-11
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Hora: 12:04 PM
Mark Twain
“Go to heaven for the climate and hell for the company”
Dia: 2013-11-30
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Hora: 8:15 AM
C.S. Lewis
"Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . .""
Dia: 2013-11-29
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Hora: 8:16 AM
Kurt Vonnegut
“If I should ever die, God forbid, let this be my epitaph: The Only Proof He Needed For The Existence Of God Was Music”
Dia: 2013-11-11
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Hora: 8:18 AM
Halloween
“Tis the night—the night Of the grave's delight, And the warlocks are at their play; Ye think that without, The wild winds shout, But no, it is they—it is they!” ― Arthur Cleveland Coxe, Halloween: A Romaunt
Dia: 2013-10-31
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Hora: 3:34 PM
Reading Corner
The books we will be reading this Saturday are: Centro: Ks: Horns to toes and in between, PTs: The Gruffalo; Norte: Ks: Thanksgiving is for giving thanks, PTs: The night before Halloween; Niza: Ks: The pigeon has feelings too!, PTs: Fireflies
Dia: 2013-11-02
Lugar: Centro, Norte & Niza
Hora: 9:25 AM
Reading Corner
The books we will be reading this Saturday are: Centro: Ks: Thanksgiving is for giving thanks, PTs: Fireflies; Norte: Ks: If you give a mouse a cookie, PTs: The Gruffalo; Niza: Ks: These are the Avengers, PTs: What is Thanksgiving?
Dia: 2013-11-09
Lugar: Centro, Norte & Niza
Hora: 9:54 AM
Reading Corner
The books we will be reading this Saturday are: Centro: Ks: The lion and the mouse, PTs: What’s Thanksgiving?; Norte: Ks: Kitten’s first Full Moon, PTs: The house in the night; Niza: Ks: Christmas Mice, PTs: Female Force
Dia: 2013-11-16
Lugar: Centro, Norte & Niza
Hora: 10:01 AM
Reading Corner
The books we will be reading this Saturday are: Centro: Ks: The house in the night, PTs: Female Force; Norte: Ks: Five green monsters, PTs: What’s Thanksgiving?; Niza: Ks: Thanksgiving is for giving thanks, PTs: The polar express
Dia: 2013-11-23
Lugar: Centro, Norte & Niza
Hora: 10:04 AM
Examen TOEIC de ETS
Prueba de inglés de nivel A1 a C1. Inscripción previa.
Dia: 2014-04-01
Lugar: Colombo Centro y Colombo Norte
Hora: 1:00 PM
Examen TOEIC Bridge de ETS
Prueba de inglés de nivel A1 a B1. Inscripción previa.
Dia: 2014-04-02
Lugar: Colombo Centro y Colombo Norte
Hora: 1:00 PM
Education Roundtable
Misión del estado de Maine con Husson University, Lee Academy y Thornton Academy. El señor Gobernador, Paul LePage, abrirá el evento.
Dia: 2013-10-31
Lugar: Colombo Niza, CC Bulevar
Hora: 5:00 PM
Feria Study Texas
Feria con 10 instituciones - Charla de visas a las 4 p.m.
Dia: 2013-11-06
Lugar: Colombo Centro - Espacio El Magnolio
Hora: 4:00 PM
Birthday of: J. D. Salinger
“What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn't happen much, though.” -- look for his books in the Library.
Dia: 2014-01-01
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Birthday of: Isaac Asimov
“The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.” -- look for his books in the Library.
Dia: 2014-01-02
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Hora: 10:14 AM
Birthday of: J. R. R. Tolkien
“Not all those who wander are lost.” -- look for his books in the Library.
Dia: 2014-01-03
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Hora: 10:19 AM
Birthday of: Umberto Eco
“When men stop believing in God, it isn't that they then believe in nothing: they believe in everything.” -- look for his books in the Library.
Dia: 2014-01-05
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Hora: 10:26 AM
Birthday of: Carl Sandburg
“Time is the coin of your life. You spend it. Do not allow others to spend it for you.” -- look for his books in the Library.
Dia: 2014-01-06
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Hora: 10:29 AM
Birthday of: Zora Neale Hurston
“Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.” -- look for her books in the Library.
Dia: 2014-01-07
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Hora: 10:33 AM
Birthday of: Jack London
“A bone to the dog is not charity. Charity is the bone shared with the dog, when you are just as hungry as the dog.” -- look for his books in the Library.
Dia: 2014-01-12
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Hora: 10:38 AM
Birthday of: Susan Sontag
“To paraphrase several sages: Nobody can think and hit someone at the same time.” ― from: Regarding the Pain of Others – Look for her books in the Library.
Dia: 2014-01-16
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Birthday of: Edgar Allan Poe
“I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.” – Look for his books in the Library.
Dia: 2014-01-19
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Hora: 10:42 AM
Birthday of: Virginia Woolf
“For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.” – Look for her books in the Library.
Dia: 2014-01-25
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Birthday of: Norman Mailer
“Any war that requires the suspension of reason as a necessity for support is a bad war.” – Look for his books in the Library.
Dia: 2014-01-31
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Christmas
“Then the Grinch thought of something he hadn't before! What if Christmas, he thought, doesn't come from a store. What if Christmas...perhaps...means a little bit more!” ― Dr. Seuss, How the Grinch Stole Christmas!
Dia: 2013-12-25
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Hora: 3:05 PM
New Year
“Hope Smiles from the threshold of the year to come, Whispering 'it will be happier'...” ― Alfred Tennyson
Dia: 2014-01-01
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Hora: 3:16 PM
Birthday of: Joseph Conrad
“Being a woman is a terribly difficult task, since it consists principally in dealing with men.” – Look for his books in our Library.
Dia: 2013-12-03
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Hora: 3:49 PM
Birthday of: Emily Dickinson
“If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry.” – Look for her books in our Library.
Dia: 2013-12-10
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Hora: 3:51 PM
Birthday of: Arthur C. Clarke
“Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.” – Look for his books in our Library.
Dia: 2013-12-16
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Hora: 3:54 PM
Birthday of: Jane Austen
“There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature.” -- Northanger Abbey – Look for her books in our Library.
Dia: 2013-12-16
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Hora: 3:58 PM
Birthday of: David Sedaris
“I haven't the slightest idea how to change people, but still I keep a long list of prospective candidates just in case I should ever figure it out.” – Look for his books in our Library.
Dia: 2013-12-26
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Hora: 4:01 PM
Birthday of: Rudyard Kipling
“Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.” – Look for his books in our Library.
Dia: 2013-12-30
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Hora: 4:05 PM
Charla informativa gratuita
Pasos para estudiar en Estados Unidos inglés, pregrado y posgrado
Dia: 2014-03-11
Lugar: Colombo Norte
Hora: 5:00 PM
Charla informativa gratuita
Pasos para estudiar en Estados Unidos inglés, pregrado y posgrado
Dia: 2014-04-24
Lugar: Colombo Centro
Hora: 5:00 PM
Charla informativa gratuita
Pasos para estudiar en Estados Unidos inglés, pregrado y posgrado
Dia: 2014-03-31
Lugar: Colombo Niza
Hora: 5:00 PM
Concierto Revolver Plateada
Revolver Plateado es el proyecto musical de Mauricio Colmenares, su disco en solitario se ha convertido en ésta, su nueva banda.
Dia: 2014-02-27
Lugar: Sala Tairona Sede Centro
Hora: 6:00 PM
Exposición Retrospectiva Jose Horacio Martinez
Deshidratación episódica de los sedimentos es el título de una de las principales pinturas que realizó el artista bugueño José Horacio Martínez hacia finales de la década de 1990.
Dia: 2014-02-27
Lugar: Sala de Exposiciones Sede Centro
Hora: 7:00 PM
Birthday of: Tom Wolfe
“A cult is a religion with no political power.” -- Look for his books in our Library.
Dia: 2014-02-02
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Hora: 10:53 AM
Birthday of: Paul Auster
“It seems to me that I will always be happy in the place where I am not.” -- Look for his books in our Library.
Dia: 2014-02-03
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Hora: 11:01 AM
Birthday of: Charles Dickens
“Never close your lips to those whom you have already opened your heart.” -- Look for his books in our Library.
Dia: 2014-02-07
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Hora: 11:03 AM
Birthday of: John Grisham
“In life, finding a voice is speaking and living the truth. Each of you is an original. Each of you has a distinctive voice. When you find it, your story will be told. You will be heard.” -- Look for his books in our Library.
Dia: 2014-02-08
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Hora: 11:05 AM
Birthday of: Alice Walker
“No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.” -- Look for her books in our Library.
Dia: 2014-02-09
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Hora: 11:10 AM
Birthday of: Toni Morrison
“If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.” -- Look for her books in our Library.
Dia: 2014-02-18
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Hora: 11:14 AM
Birthday of: Jonathan Safran Foer
“Sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I'm not living.” from Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close-- Look for his books in our Library.
Dia: 2014-02-21
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Birthday of: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
“For after all, the best thing one can do when it is raining is let it rain.” -- Look for his books in our Library.
Dia: 2014-02-27
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Birthday of: John Steinbeck
“I believe a strong woman may be stronger than a man, particularly if she happens to have love in her heart. I guess a loving woman is indestructible.” -- Look for his books in our Library.
Dia: 2014-02-27
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Birthday of: Ralph Ellison
“Life is to be lived, not controlled; and humanity is won by continuing to play in face of certain defeat.” from Invisible Man -- Look for his books in our Library.
Dia: 2014-03-01
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Hora: 8:39 AM
Birthday of: Dr. Seuss
“Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened.”-- Look for his books in our Library.
Dia: 2014-03-02
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Hora: 8:42 AM
Birthday of: Gabriel Garcia Márquez
“What matters in life is not what happens to you but what you remember and how you remember it.” -- Look for his books in our Library.
Dia: 2014-03-06
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Hora: 8:44 AM
Birthday of: Jack Kerouac
“One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple.” from The Dharma Bums-- Look for his books in our Library.
Dia: 2014-03-12
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Hora: 8:48 AM
Birthday of: John Updike
“Celebrity is a mask that eats into the face.” -- Look for his books in our Library.
Dia: 2014-03-18
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Hora: 8:49 AM
Birthday of: Philip Roth
“Everybody else is working to change, persuade, tempt and control them. The best readers come to fiction to be free of all that noise.” -- Look for his books in our Library.
Dia: 2014-03-19
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Hora: 8:52 AM
Birthday of: Tennessee Williams
“What is straight? A line can be straight, or a street, but the human heart, oh, no, it's curved like a road through mountains.” ― from A Streetcar Named Desire-- Look for his plays in our Library.
Dia: 2014-03-26
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Hora: 8:55 AM
Birthday of: Robert Frost
“Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one’s definition of your life; define yourself.” -- Look for his books in our Library.
Dia: 2014-03-26
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Birthday of: Mario Vargas Llosa
“Memory is a snare, pure and simple; it alters, it subtly rearranges the past to fit the present.” -- Look for his books in our Library.
Dia: 2014-03-28
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Hora: 9:03 AM
Birthday of: Octavio Paz
“Love is an attempt to penetrate another being, but it can only be realized if the surrender is mutual.” ― from The Labyrinth of Solitude and Other Writings-- Look for his books in our Library.
Dia: 2014-03-31
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Hora: 9:05 AM
1st Day of Spring.
“No winter lasts forever; no spring skips its turn.” ― Hal Borland
Dia: 2014-03-21
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Hora: 9:21 AM
St. Patrick´s Day
“May you always walk in sunshine. May you never want for more. May Irish angels rest their wings right beside your door.” Irish Blessing
Dia: 2014-03-17
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Hora: 9:25 AM
Mardi Gras
“Mardi-Gras is of course a relic of the French and Spanish occupation; but I judge that the religious feature has been pretty well knocked out of it now.” from - Life on the Mississippi. Mark Twain.
Dia: 2014-03-04
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Hora: 9:30 AM
Valentine´s Day
“What a lover’s heart knows let no man’s brain dispute.” ― Aberjhani, Visions of a Skylark Dressed in Black
Dia: 2014-02-14
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Hora: 9:35 AM
Birthday of: Hans Christian Andersen
“Life is like a beautiful melody, only the lyrics are messed up.” -- Look for his books in our Library.
Dia: 2014-04-02
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Hora: 8:20 AM
Birthday of: Maya Angelou
“I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.” -- Look for her books in our Library.
Dia: 2014-04-04
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Hora: 8:25 AM
Birthday of: Tom Clancy
“The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.”-- Look for his books in our Library.
Dia: 2014-04-12
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Hora: 8:29 AM
Birthday of: Samuel Beckett
“Dance first. Think later. It's the natural order.” -- Look for his books in our Library.
Dia: 2014-04-13
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Hora: 8:32 AM
Birthday of: William Shakespeare
“I would challenge you to a battle of wits, but I see you are unarmed!” -- Look for his plays in our Library.
Dia: 2014-04-15
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Birthday of: Harper Lee
“I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It's when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.” – from To Kill a mockingbird. -- Look for her books in our Library.
Dia: 2014-04-28
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Earth Day
We have met the enemy and he is us. -- Walt Kelly
Dia: 2014-04-22
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Easter
“Easter says you can put truth in a grave, but it won't stay there” -- Clarence W. Hall
Dia: 2014-04-20
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Hora: 8:56 AM
April Fool´s Day
“Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me.” -- Chinese Proverb
Dia: 2014-04-01
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Birthday of: J. M. Barrie
“Never say goodbye because goodbye means going away and going away means forgetting.” ―from Peter Pan -- Look for his books in our Library.
Dia: 2014-05-09
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Birthday of: L. Frank Baum
“A heart is not judged by how much you love; but by how much you are loved by others” ― from The Wonderful Wizard of Oz -- Look for his books in our Library.
Dia: 2014-05-15
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Birthday of: Arthur Conan Doyle
“When you have eliminated all which is impossible, then whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.” ― from The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes -- Look for his books in our Library.
Dia: 2014-05-22
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Birthday of: Ralph Waldo Emerson
“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.” -- Look for his books in our Library.
Dia: 2014-05-25
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Birthday of: G. K. Chesterton
“The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.” -- Look for his books in our Library.
Dia: 2014-05-29
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Hora: 9:01 AM
Birthday of: Walt Whitman
“Keep your face always toward the sunshine - and shadows will fall behind you.” -- Look for his poetry in our Library.
Dia: 2014-05-31
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Mother´s Day
“Mothers hold their children's hands for a short while, but their hearts forever. ”
Dia: 2014-05-11
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Hora: 9:08 AM
Memorial Day
“A man's country is not a certain area of land, of mountains, rivers, and woods, but it is a principle and patriotism is loyalty to that principle.” George William Curtis
Dia: 2014-05-26
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Hora: 9:12 AM
Birthday of: Saul Bellow
“Unexpected intrusions of beauty. This is what life is.” from Herzog. – Look for his books in our Library
Dia: 2014-06-10
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Hora: 9:03 AM
Birthday of: W. B. Yeats
“The world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper.” – Look for his poetry in our Library.
Dia: 2014-06-13
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Hora: 9:05 AM
Bloomsday
Bloomsday celebrates Thursday 16 June 1904 as that day is depicted in James Joyce’s novel Ulysses. The day is named after Leopold Bloom, the central character in Ulysses. The novel follows the life and thoughts of Leopold Bloom and a host of other characters – real and fictional – from 8am on 16 June 1904 through to th
Dia: 2014-06-16
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Hora: 9:13 AM
Birthday of: Ambrose Bierce
“Love, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage.” ― from: The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary. Look for his books in our Library.
Dia: 2014-06-24
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Hora: 9:21 AM
Birthday of: George Orwell
“In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.” Look for his books in our Library.
Dia: 2014-06-25
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Hora: 9:23 AM
Father´s Day
“My father didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it”. ― Clarence Budington Kelland
Dia: 2014-06-15
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Hora: 9:28 AM
1st Day of Summer
“In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.” ― Albert Camus
Dia: 2014-06-21
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Birthday of: J.K. Rowling
“If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.” ― from Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. Look for her books in our Library.
Dia: 2014-07-31
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Birthday of: Aldous Huxley
“But I don't want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I want sin.” ― from Brave New World. Look for his books in our Library.
Dia: 2014-07-26
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Hora: 10:55 AM
Birthday of: Ernest Hemingway
“There is no friend as loyal as a book.” ― Look for his books in our Library.
Dia: 2014-07-21
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Birthday of: Cormac McCarthy
“You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from.” ― from, No Country for Old Men― Look for his books in our Library.
Dia: 2014-07-20
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Hora: 11:02 AM
Birthday of: Hunter S. Thompson
“Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming "Wow! What a Ride!” ― Look for his books in our Library.
Dia: 2014-07-18
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Hora: 11:05 AM
Birthday of: Henry David Thoreau
“How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.” ― Look for his books in our Library.
Dia: 2014-07-12
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Hora: 11:10 AM
4th of July
“Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom, must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it.” – Thomas Paine.
Dia: 2014-07-04
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Hora: 11:18 AM
Birthday of: Jorge Luis Borges
“Being with you and not being with you is the only way I have to measure time.” ― Look for his books in our Library.
Dia: 2014-08-24
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Hora: 11:23 AM
Birthday of: Ray Bradbury
“You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.”― Look for his books in our Library.
Dia: 2014-08-22
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Hora: 11:25 AM
Birthday of: H.P. Lovecraft
“The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown” -- Look for his books in our Library.
Dia: 2014-08-20
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Hora: 11:28 AM
Birthday of: Charles Bukowski
“Sometimes you climb out of bed in the morning and you think, I'm not going to make it, but you laugh inside — remembering all the times you've felt that way.” -- Look for his books in our Library.
Dia: 2014-08-16
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Hora: 11:30 AM
Birthday of: James Baldwin
“Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.” -- Look for his books in our Library.
Dia: 2014-08-02
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Hora: 11:34 AM
Birthday of: Herman Melville
“It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.” -- Look for his books in our Library.
Dia: 2014-08-01
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Hora: 11:36 AM
Birthday of: Roald Dahl
“Those who don't believe in magic will never find it.” -- Look for his books in our Library.
Dia: 2014-09-13
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Hora: 11:55 AM
Birthday of: George R.R. Martin
“A mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge.” -- Look for his books in our Library.
Dia: 2014-09-20
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Hora: 11:57 AM
Birthday of Stephen King
“Books are a uniquely portable magic.” -- Look for his books in our Library.
Dia: 2014-09-21
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Hora: 12:01 PM
Birthday of: F. Scott Fitzgerald
“That is part of the beauty of all literature. You discover that your longings are universal longings, that you're not lonely and isolated from anyone. You belong.” -- Look for his books in our Library.
Dia: 2014-09-24
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Hora: 12:03 PM
Birthday of: William Faulkner
“Read, read, read. Read everything -- trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You'll absorb it. Then write. If it's good, you'll find out. If it's not, throw it out of the window.” -- Look for his books in our Library.
Dia: 2014-09-25
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Hora: 12:05 PM
Birthday of: T.S. Eliot
“We shall not cease from exploration, And the end of all our exploring, Will be to arrive where we started, And know the place for the first time.” -- Look for his books in our Library.
Dia: 2014-09-26
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Hora: 12:09 PM
Birthday of: Truman Capote
“Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.” -- Look for his books in our Library.
Dia: 2014-09-30
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Hora: 12:11 PM
Labor Day
“All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence” -- Martin Luther King Jr.
Dia: 2014-09-01
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Hora: 12:15 PM
Birthday of: Graham Greene
"I measured love by the extent of my jealousy." from, The End of the Affair. Look for his books in our Library
Dia: 2014-10-02
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Hora: 8:12 AM
Birthday of: Elie Wiesel
"The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference." -- Look for his work in our Library
Dia: 2014-09-30
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Hora: 8:16 AM
Birthday of: Oscar Wilde
"Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much." -- Look for his books in our Library.
Dia: 2014-10-16
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Hora: 8:18 AM
Birthday of: Dylan Thomas
"Do not go gentle into that good night. Rage, rage against the dying of the light." — Look for his poems in our Library
Dia: 2014-10-27
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Hora: 8:20 AM
Birthday of: Zadie Smith
"The greatest lie ever told about love is that it sets you free." — from, On Beauty. -- Look for her books in our Library.
Dia: 2014-10-25
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Hora: 8:22 AM
Birthday of: Arthur Miller
"Don't be seduced into thinking that that which does not make a profit is without value." -- Look for his books in our Library.
Dia: 2014-10-17
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Hora: 8:29 AM
Birthday of: Anne Rice
"Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult." from, Interview with the Vampire. Look for her books in our Library.
Dia: 2014-10-04
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Hora: 8:33 AM
Halloween
“Tis the night—the night Of the grave's delight, And the warlocks are at their play; Ye think that without, The wild winds shout, But no, it is they—it is they!” ― Arthur Cleveland Coxe, Halloween: A Romaunt
Dia: 2014-10-31
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Hora: 8:35 AM
Super Bowl Sunday
"Losing the Super Bowl is worse than dying. You have to get up the next morning." --George Allen
Dia: 2014-02-02
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Hora: 10:08 AM
Birthday of: Albert Camus
"Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend." -- Look for his books in our Library.
Dia: 2014-11-07
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Hora: 2:43 PM
Birthday of: Neil Gaiman
“Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.” -- Look for his books in our Library.
Dia: 2014-11-10
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Hora: 2:46 PM
Birthday of: Kurt Vonnegut
“If I should ever die, God forbid, let this be my epitaph: The Only Proof He Needed For The Existence Of God Was Music” -- Look for his books in our Library.
Dia: 2014-11-11
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Hora: 2:48 PM
Birthday of: Robert Louis Stevenson
"Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant." -- Look for his books in our Library.
Dia: 2014-11-13
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Hora: 2:49 PM
Birthday of: Don DeLillo
"California deserves whatever it gets. Californians invented the concept of life-style. This alone warrants their doom." -- Look for his books in our Library.
Dia: 2014-11-20
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Hora: 2:52 PM
Birthday of: C.S. Lewis
"Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . ."" -- Look for his books in our Library.
Dia: 2014-11-29
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Hora: 2:57 PM
Birthday of: Mark Twain.
“Go to heaven for the climate and hell for the company” -- Look for his books in our Library.
Dia: 2014-11-30
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Hora: 3:00 PM
Birthday of: Lewis Carroll
“I can't go back to yesterday because I was a different person then.” – Look for his books in the Library.
Dia: 2014-01-27
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Hora: 3:02 PM
Gunpowder Plot
"Remember, remember the fifth of November, the gunpowder treason and plot. I know of no reason why the gunpowder treason should ever be forgot".
Dia: 2014-11-05
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Hora: 3:16 PM
Thanksgiving
For each new morning with its light, For rest and shelter of the night, For health and food, for love and friends, For everything Thy goodness sends. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
Dia: 2014-11-27
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Hora: 3:39 PM
Birthday of: Rudyard Kipling
“Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.” – Look for his books in our Library.
Dia: 2014-12-30
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Hora: 8:30 AM
Birthday of: David Sedaris
“I haven't the slightest idea how to change people, but still I keep a long list of prospective candidates just in case I should ever figure it out.” – Look for his books in our Library.
Dia: 2014-12-26
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Hora: 8:32 AM
Christmas
“Then the Grinch thought of something he hadn't before! What if Christmas, he thought, doesn't come from a store. What if Christmas...perhaps...means a little bit more!” ― Dr. Seuss, How the Grinch Stole Christmas!
Dia: 2014-12-25
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Hora: 8:34 AM
Birthday of: Arthur C. Clarke
“Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.” – Look for his books in our Library.
Dia: 2014-12-16
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Hora: 8:36 AM
Birthday of: Joseph Conrad
“Being a woman is a terribly difficult task, since it consists principally in dealing with men.” – Look for his books in our Library.
Dia: 2014-12-03
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Hora: 8:37 AM
Remembering Pearl Harbor
"Yesterday, December 7th, 1941 -- a date which will live in infamy -- the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan." -- FDR.
Dia: 2014-12-07
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Hora: 8:40 AM
Charla informativa gratuita
Pasos para estudiar en Estados Unidos inglés, pregrado y posgrado
Dia: 2014-03-20
Lugar: Colombo Centro - Exam Room
Hora: 5:00 PM
Charla informativa gratuita
Pasos para estudiar en Estados Unidos inglés, pregrado y posgrado
Dia: 2014-04-03
Lugar: Colombo Centro - Exam Room
Hora: 5:00 PM
Charla informativa gratuita
Pasos para estudiar en Estados Unidos inglés, pregrado y posgrado
Dia: 2014-03-27
Lugar: Colombo Centro - Exam Room
Hora: 5:00 PM
Charla informativa gratuita
Pasos para estudiar en Estados Unidos inglés, pregrado y posgrado
Dia: 2014-04-10
Lugar: Colombo Centro - Exam Room
Hora: 5:00 PM
Feria de universidades Linden
Universidades acreditadas de Estados Unidos estarán en Bogotá brindando información sobre admisiones, la selección de programas y realizar de forma efectiva la solicitud. Regístrate en www.lindentours.com
Dia: 2014-04-05
Lugar: Hotel Bogota Plaza Summit, Calle 100 No. 18A-30
Hora: 1:00 PM
The MBA Tour - Networking event
Reúnete con Directores de Admisión de programas de MBA en grupos pequeños. Más información: http://www.thembatour.com/events/bogota-march.shtml
Dia: 2014-03-10
Lugar: Hotel Radisson - Calle 113 No. 7-65
Hora: 5:00 PM
Charla informativa gratuita
Charla con una representante del programa de MBA de University of San Diego. www.sandiego.edu/business
Dia: 2014-03-13
Lugar: Colombo Centro - Exam Room
Hora: 5:00 PM
Concierto The Boston Boys
Future Roots band, The Boston Boys, formed in Boston in 2012, live in Brooklyn, and play around the world. In only two years, they’ve performed in over a dozen countries throughout Europe, North Africa, and the Middle East.
Dia: 2014-05-06
Lugar: Sala Tairona
Hora: 2:24 PM
Teacher's Day
A good teacher can inspire hope, ignite the imagination, and instill a love of learning. Brad Henry
Dia: 2014-05-15
Lugar: Colombo
Hora: 12:00 AM
TALLER: TRADICIONES PERCUSIVAS DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS
Este taller, para una audiencia activa, invita a los participantes a trabajar en actividades basadas en las tradiciones percusivas de la música de los Estados Unidos. Inscripciones en: ncortes@colombobogota.edu.co TALLER GRATUITO
Dia: 2014-05-07
Lugar: Sala Tairona, Colombo Centro
Hora: 5:00 PM
TALLER EDUCATIVO: UNA MIRADA A LA MÚSICA DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS
Los asistentes a este taller, dictado por The Boston Boys, cuarteto de Berklee School of Music, van a entender la evolución de la música de los Estados Unidos a través de demostraciones e interacciones musicales. ENTRADA LIBRE
Dia: 2014-05-05
Lugar: Sala Tairona, Colombo Centro
Hora: 5:00 PM
Programa de Inglés para Adultos
No class
Dia: 2014-05-12
Lugar: Sedes Centro, Norte y Niza
Hora: 12:00 AM
Open Tutoring session - Grammar
How to use grammar effectively.
Dia: 2014-05-13
Lugar: Sedes Centro, Norte y Niza
Hora: 12:00 AM
Inicio de clases
Hoy inicia el curso TEFL
Dia: 2014-06-03
Lugar: Online Course
Hora: 12:00 AM
Matriculas Inglés para Adultos
Junio 17, 18 y 19
