Written July 11th
The first Module has come to a close, and I continue to be amazed at the generosity of the people here. On the last day of classes, during break, each of our students had brought something to share with us. Some chocolate-flavored sunflower seeds, a Ukrainian style cake, some rose-flavored Turkish delight, various candies and chocolate bars, as well as a more interesting Ukrainian version of marshmallows – (we had a campfire one night with smores, so they wanted us to try their flavored marshmallows here) After that, we played apples to apples and had a more fun, laid-back, relaxing time before the graduation ceremony where we gave them their English learning certificates. We then had a combined talent show of both our students, or staff, and a Russian/Ukrainian choir who was having a workshop at DCU for the last 5 days. It was amazing, especially when the choir sang for us as well. I’ll be sad to see those individuals go, and realize now how unfinished everything feels.
2 comments:
So now do you start over with a new group of students and use the same curriculum for English lessons and do the same afternoon activities? If you do, it should make the next two weeks a little easier. It is hard to believe that you are already half way through!!! Love, mom
No, actually, some of the students are coming back, so we want to do different activities and different topics in the afternoons. As for morning classes, well, it looks like they don't need us anymore... they have too many teachers coming from new teams.
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