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KORUS Festival 2012 Entertains at Centreville

The KORUS festival took place at the special event center at Bull Run Regional Park, Centreville Va. The event lasted 3 days. The KORUS Festival is organized by the Korean American Association of Washington Metropolitan Area (KAAW).  The KAAW try to share their culture with the community. The festival featured live music. Vendors sold authentic Asian dishes. The festival attracted a lot of people. At one time during the show the performers taught the audience how to dance to Gangnam Style.
 

Something for Everyone: Bull Run Park

Bull Run Regional Park is located in Centreville, Virginia and is a great place for family outings, group meetings, and organized events. The venue includes several great services including a water park and several hiking trails. For those seeking a nice, quiet weekend out, Bull Run offers picnic table shelters and large grassy fields for recreations. This is great place to bring your pets who will have plenty of room to run around, or your children who will have a great time playing frisbee or tossing around a football. The park also offers several marked hiking trails that include several scenic paths through the park. Feel free to bring your horse: the park also provides several equestrian trails! Bull Run is known for it’s picturesque and aesthetically pleasing foliage and plant life. There is also a water park known as Atlantis for children to enjoy over the summer. Similar to parks such as Splashdown, the park offers birth party hosting and has multiple pools, a water cannon, a play island with three slides, and closed/opened water slides along with swimming aquatic classes in group, private, and semi-private settings. The park also offers several community events such as group nature walks and bird observation trails. This April, they are hosting a Easter Egg Hunt for children ages 2-8. (info online at www.nvrpa.org/park/bull_run). There will be crafts, activities such as games and prizes, an egg hunt, and of course an Easter Bunny. The park is located on 7700 Bull Run Drive Centreville, VA 20121.  

Mountain View Alternative High School

Mountain View Alternative High school is one of the great unique opportunities in northern Virginia, or more specifically, Fairfax County. Located in Centreville at 5775 Spindle Court Centreville, VA 20121, this school is tucked away from the rest of the extremely busy school. When in high school you can apply to go here, and I would say that it is well worth the effort. Mountain View is a completely unique learning experience. Where most high schools in the area have around three thousand students, Mountain View has a maximum of three hundred at a time. At base school any student needs at least for years to graduate, but at Mountain you can graduate in only two. Mountain View upholds the ideals of family, love, and respect. Mountain View obtains these goals of graduating early by making the classes smaller and more personal. Each student has plenty of one on one time with the teacher and can set their own pace. They have no age limit and offer evening classes as well for anyone who needs a leg up, or a late diploma. Mountain View is also surrounded by many good restaurants within walking distance. This is very good because there is an open campus lunch policy, at which time the students are free to go wherever they would like for a forty-five minute lunch break. In this way, and many other ways, Mountain View gives back to it's surrounding community.