Thank you very much for the amazing time with you. Your whole team is so friendly and helpful!

We gained a lot of experience and improved our English!

We hope to see you again!

Thank you so much…

Miriam Steiner & Julia Flittner

This week we had two Language Excursions taking place at the same time to guarantee an ideal Language Learning environment for our 26 students! Our second group of students had the chance to try some uniquely South African cuisine.  They visited a Cape Malay resident who cooked up a storm of tantalizing treats, followed by a true Ethiopian spice experience and finally, they rounded off the week with a taste of isiXhosa dishes in one of Cape Town’s townships.

This week our students including our FEJO group experienced all the good things in life, so to speak!  Cape Town’s art scene, it’s unique music and it’s love of sport, did not disappoint!

The students visited Studio 41, took part in a drum workshop in Gugulethu and visited Cape Town’s prized soccer stadium! What a way to see Cape Town!

Kurus English welcomed it’s third FEJO group this year with a rip-roaring set in, without a shadow of a doubt, the most beautiful garden in Cape Town.  Students danced under the stars as local  band “Black South Easter“ created the rhythm that is Cape Town.  The food, magnificently prepared, tantalized everyone’s tastebuds with it’s truely South African flavour.  All in all, a fabulous evening was had by everyone in attendance.

Viva la Cape Town!



For the golf enthusiast, Cape Town must count as heaven. With an ideal climate for spending time outside in the sun and on the fairways, golfers here are blessed with some of the finest golf courses in the world.

Kurus English offers its learners the inspired opportunity to improve their English while leaving time to enjoy some of our country’s most celebrated courses.

Most golf courses in and around Cape Town offer a choice of 9 holes or 18 holes and many of them have ‘mashie courses’ too. Whether you have only an hour or half a day, you will find something for everyone! The golf courses here are of an international standard, and are priced more cheaply than any courses in Europe or the USA!

It is worth mentioning, the game of golf is played 12 months of the year in South Africa and Cape Town has been acclaimed as one of the 5^th bluest sky destinations in the world!

Kurus English offers specially designed language programmes that enable you to improve your English while still giving you time to play on some of the best golf courses in South Africa.

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I enjoyed it really very much. It was a great time and I’ll recommend Kurus wherever I can.

Annedore

English Lessons…

Language Excursions…

Free time trips…

Everything was just great!!

All in all, thanks to everyone for everything!

Marc, Pia, Astrid, Theresa, Anja, Sabrina, Laura, Annika, Petra, Lena, Lisa, Johanna (FEJO)

The environment is everything that isn’t me.
Albert Einstein

This week our students were given the opportunity to explore Cape Town from an environmental perspective.  Much of what they learnt included how we can improve the spaces we live in and in turn, make a cleaner and healthier space for everyone who lives in Cape town.

On Tuesday the students visited Intaka Island, a rehabilitated island in the middle of a shopping precinct, on Wednesday -Camissa, to discover the secrets of Cape Town’s water, and on Thursday -Green Point Urban Park to learn more about the city’s green areas.

Cape Town was recently elected the World Design Capital for 2014. The vision of the World Design Capital project is to promote and encourage the use of design to further the social, financial and cultural development and growth of the world’s cities. Cape Town’s winning bid slogan was “Live Design, Transform Life” and it focuses on socially responsive design.

Kurus English, in conjuction with Coffeebeans Routes have developed a Language Excursion week which explores this project further.

“We want to give our students the opportunity to converse and interact with people who are creating change and who are behind the scenes of something potentially life changing for a lot of people”  says Director of Kurus English, Johannes Kraus.”

On Language Excursions students are immersed in diverse cultures of Cape Town and are able to  meet and communicate with relevant people in the city and its environment.  Because Language Excursions are a powerful language-learning support , students will be able to have real-life language practice and language discovery.  The World Design Capital theme opens up yet another unique and inspired way to experience an authentic Cape Town.

As a result of Apartheid, Cape Town had been physically, socially, financially, culturally and emotionally divided for many years. From 2012 to 2014, Cape Town, is going to be undertaking the process of redesigning itself with a strong focus on changing the segregated structures of the city, which divided people and cultures from each other, to break down social boundaries and encourage unity among its’ people. As South Africa’s oldest city and having just hosted the first World Cup on African soil, Cape Town now has first rate infrastructure and a sophisticated way of life. These Language Excursions will help students to expose how rich in heritage, innovation, diversity and creative talent Cape Town really is for themselves.

What the World Design Capital hopes to achieve is functionality of the city through design, for all its inhabitants. The idea that everyone has access to functional transport systems, has the option to live near to where they work and that the man on the street is able to take his family to a “green space” within a few blocks of his house. Cape Town, as World Design Capital, now has the opportunity to gear itself up to produce the type of innovative reflection, entrepreneurial know-how and successful execution that will, at last, transcend boundaries and reconnect Cape Town in both outward appearance and character, for the benefit of all citizens.

“The Language Excursions we have developed, move students through a process of  learning, discovering and understanding” says Kraus.

All of this makes Cape Town an interesting and dynamic place for ELT students to visit.  Cape Town is changing and its residents are motivated and ready for the change. Kurus English, in conjunction with Coffeebeans Routes are, in turn, already excited to implement a new theme of Language Excursions directed at exposing the ins and outs of the World Design Capital project and the unique effect it is to have on both the city of Cape Town as well as on people who call it home.

Thank you to all of you

It’s time to say Good Bye

I’ve really enjoyed my week with you and my “feedback face” prove it!

Mathieu Le Bras

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I had a great time in Cape Town and at the school!! Let’s call it “TIME OF MY LIFE!!”

Thank you!!

Lots of love

Ilpha

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A building is hard to judge. It takes many years to find out whether it works. It’s not as simple as asking the people in the office whether they like it.
Helmut Jahn

This week our students had the opportunity to experience the theme “Building Cities”.  This weekly theme explores how South Africa started in terms of infrastructure, where we are now and how we are going to continue to build our cities so that they connect people to each other as well as to the resources they require.

We started off the week by visiting Kuyasa in Khaylitsha to see a solar panel project that is not only helping a disadvantaged community but is also building a city where people are proud of where they live.  On Wednesday we headed to Mannenberg Waterfront, a project hosted by the NGO, “Proudly Mannenberg” where communities have taken the responsibility of changing where they live into their own hands.  Lastly, we finished off the week with a canal cruise down to the V&A Waterfront to discuss the history of Cape Town as a city as well as opportunities Cape Town city has to look forward to with regards to how to make spaces that connect people with each other.

A fabulous evening of bopping and jiving was had by all at out second Fejo group’s music dinner!  A picturesque setting, with delicious South African cuisine, with a local Cape Town band “Black South Easter“  playing it was hard to imagine you were anywhere but paradise!

Welcome to Cape Town! Let the magic of our city capture your hearts, free your minds and dance in your souls!

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Dear Kurus-Family

I am deeply grateful for the lovely time I have spent with you guys.  It was such a good and great experience for me.  I feel more confident in speaking English now and I also started to think and dream in English-> a good sign isn’t it?  Many thanks to all of you.  All of you are unique Particularly to my brilliant teacher Gavin, for his patience and much more!

Loads of love and success,

Concetta

PS if you are coming to Switzerland or Italy let me know.  Would  be great to meet you again!

PS2  I’m coming back for SURE!!!

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This week our students had the opportunity to take a look at the awesome work some people are doing in their communities. They started out with a visit to “Learn to Earn in Khayalitsha, followed by a visit to Imam Dawood who runs a school for girls and a soup kitchen in the disadvantaged community of Parkwood and lastly to a  shelter in Langa who grow vegetables and support the poorest in their community, to complete the week.  The students were able to empathise with both the people who run the institutions as well as the people who need and use them.

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