The ELI Weekly The Legend of Jack-O-Lantern Besides the candy, jack-o-lanterns are many people’s favorite part of our Halloween tradition! Have you ever wondered where the name jack-o-lantern came from? It has its roots in an Irish folktale about a man named Jack, who was stingy but also very tricky. In the […]
The ELI Weekly Student Writing by YaHsuan Wang, RW 20 My Country Taiwan My country is very small in Asia and shaped like a sweet potato. It is very close to China, Japan and South Korea. It is Taiwan. Its population is 23.34 million and official languages are Traditional Chinese and Taiwanese. Many […]
The ELI Weekly A Special Farewell from Melina When I first started at the ELI, in Fall 2006, I was inexperienced and scared! At the end of the first week of class, I called my mami crying because I was worried that I wasn’t teaching my students well and they were just losing […]
The ELI Weekly Out and About: UF Bat Houses With the Halloween season around the corner, it’s a good time to talk about bats! Along with witches, ghosts, and pumpkins, bats are synonymous with Halloween. So, if you are interested in getting into the Halloween spirit, take a visit to the UF Bat […]
The ELI Weekly Out and About: Volunteering This weekend, ELI students have two volunteer opportunities: Green Bridges and Mill Creek Horse Farm. Did you know volunteering is an important aspect of American culture? Though the number of hours that Americans volunteer has decreased since the pandemic, volunteering is still strong in the U.S. […]
The ELI Weekly Out and About: Community Gardens Have you ever heard of a community garden? A community garden is a piece of land that is gardened by a group of people in a neighborhood. In some community gardens, people who sign up to tend the garden are given their own piece of […]
The ELI Weekly Where in the World? This semester, the ELI has 63 students from more than 21 different places. You can learn a lot about the world from your classmates! Some students are from more than one country. If you call more than one place home, let us know and we will […]
The ELI Weekly Out and About: Gator Football and Tailgating Last Saturday, you may have noticed the UF campus absolutely packed with Gator fans! What were all these people doing outside all day? They were taking part in tailgating, an American tradition that brings football fans together to share food, drinks, and school […]
The ELI Weekly Commencement Ceremony Friday, August 8, Innovation Room A & B (Reitz Union), 10:00am-noon Congratulations on making it to the end of the semester! We hope you learned more English, made some wonderful friends and had some fun this semester. You should all be very proud of yourselves, and we’d like […]
The ELI Weekly Scholarship Winners Congratulations to the recipients of the ELI scholarships for the Fall 2025 semester! Dr. Jayne C. Harder Memorial Scholarship: Fabiola Colmenares Bermudez Dr. J.C. Casagrande Peace Scholarship: Anghelo Ita Durand 1st Runner-up: Lu Huang Our Florida Springs Ask some local Gainesville residents about the best […]