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Le Jardin Academy is located on the Windward Side of Oʻahu in Kailua, Hawaiʻi, and offers private education from preschool to high school.
The school has separate campuses for its preschool students and those in higher grades. The preschool campus is located about one and one-half miles down road from the main campus. Two playgrounds, one hall, and one portable hall comprise its facilities. The main campus has 24 acres (97,000 m2) of land which has constructed upon it seven halls, a portable library, two playgrounds, and an auditorium. Its athletics facilities consist of a swimming pool, gymnasium with two full basketball courts, outdoor basketball court,a newly built gym, and a soccer field. Special classrooms were built for art and music instruction.
Madame Henriette D. Neal, founded a preschool in 1961 at St John's Lutheran Church in Kailua. It was known as Le Jardin d'Enfants Madame Neal taught her students the French Language. French is still taught at the school today and the fleur-de-lis appears in Le Jardin's logo.
After 1961 and for the next eight years, a new grade was added nearly every year. By 1945, the school's enrollment contained more than 100 students, all in sixth grade or lower. During the early 2000s the first H.S graduations took place and currently L.J.A has close to 800 students.
Le Jardin was donated the land that was once the site of the Kailua drive-in and constructed upon it the new permanent campus. On August 30, 1999 the school opened its new campus. Stones with personal messages from students were placed under the foundations of one of the halls. In 2001, Le Jardin added a high school in the same manner it had expanded in the sixties, by adding a new grade each year. In 2009, a new high school building and gym was added to the upper campus.
The school's headmaster is an English educator, Mr. Adrian Allan. The mascot of the school is a Bulldog.
Le Jardin Academy has just recently joined the IB program (Or the International Baccalaureate Program) which lets students have a unique learning style.
Tonight Tiki's is hosting a fundraiser organized by friends of Presley Tagaloa, a Hawaii Army Reservist with the 100th Battalion, 442nd Infantry who passed away from a battle with leukemia. Tiki's, which is providing a percentage of that night's sales to the Tagaloa family.
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A refreshing and unusual salad made with shredded green papaya, it stands alone or takes such additions as cooked prawns to turn it in to a main dish.
- 1 large ripe tomato, cut in to wedges.
- 1 green papaya (500 g/1 lb), coarsely grated to yield 3 cups.
- 1 small carrot, coarsely grated to yield 3 cups.
- 1 small carrot, coarsely grated to yield 1 cup.
- 2 tablespoons chopped mint leaves.
- Sprigs of mint leaves, to garnish.
Dressing
- 3 tablespoons freshly squeezed lime juice.
- 3 tablespoons fish sauce.
- 1 talespoon sugar.
- 2 cloves garlic, minced.
- 1 finger-length chili, deseeded and sliced.
- 2 tablespoons sesame seeds, dry-roasted for about 10 minutes over low heat until browned.
- Combine the Dressing ingredients in a large bowl and mix until the sugar is dissolved, then add all the other ingredients (except sprigs of mint leaves) and toss well to combine.
- Transfer to a serving platter, garnish with the mint leaves and serve immediately
Serves 4
Preparation time: 15 mins.
(Source: homestyle vietnamese cooking)