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Snow Days 2011
Posted on February 11, 2011 by Meghan
Maybe you’ve heard, but North Texas has had some cold weather recently! UNT and IELI were closed due to ice and snow from Feb. 1 -4 and on Feb. 9. I have lived in Texas for most of my life, and school has never been closed for 5 days before in one winter! Since IELI [...]
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Yee haw! Howdy, Partner.
Posted on July 12, 2010 by Meghan
IELI students got a good introduction to Texas cowboy culture this weekend. We took a trip to the Ft. Worth Stockyards and Rodeo. Now, people don’t really have accents or wear cowboy hats or boots in Denton, but they do in Ft. Worth! It was fun to go and see that the “Old West” is [...]
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Summer Welcome
Posted on June 21, 2010 by Meghan
It’s officially the first day of summer, and it is already 100 degrees in Denton. Thank goodness for swimming pools and air conditioning! This summer, we welcomed 90 new students to IELI. That’s a big number for the summer term! The 90 new students included a group of 28 students from Zirve University in Turkey, [...]
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Snow, Valentine’s Day, and New Year!
Posted on February 16, 2010 by Meghan
Happy Valentine’s Day and Lunar New Year! We’ve had some excitement at UNT in the last few days. First, it started snowing on Thursday last week, and UNT closed early because of the weather. It snowed all night, so school was cancelled on Friday too. Usually, if it snows, the snow melts right away. But [...]
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WorldFest on the Square
Posted on September 29, 2009 by Meghan
UNT-International, with groups from the Denton community, put together the first ever WorldFest on the Square last Saturday. Check out the article that the Denton Record-Chronicle wrote about WorldFest. The weather was perfect, the food was great, and the students who performed dances and musical numbers were tremendous. WorldFest was a fun way for UNT students and [...]
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Welcome to Texas Party
Posted on September 9, 2009 by Meghan
The Welcome Party was a blast on Friday! We had a surprise guest come and play some Texas music for all the students, and a few teachers dressed up and sang along with him. The song “Long Tall Texan” was lots of fun. A big “Thank You” goes out to Sandy and her husband Larry. [...]
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