Here's a summary of my last month at our training Village Staryi Bilous....
We taught our regular classes. I was teaching the 7th graders at the school, and then Jacque and I started teaching the 4th form and the 8th form. That was fun and challenging....especially when we were hardly using any Russian in the lesson, and the students probably had a hard time understanding. It was fun tho! We also rotated back to our original Russian teacher, Zhenya. Thus began the whirl wind of Russian language learning. Nothing new tho...except more and more practice. Also, we had a couple of interviews about Site placement and langauge proficiency. Also, it was dawning to me and my host family that we only had a couple more weeks together. Everything was crazy leading up to swearing it. Finishing out commmunity project, learninig Russian, teaching English, and cross cultural learning also, it seems like one would not have time to think or feel. Well you're wrong because believe me everyday brought every emotion in the book.
But beside the work, we had some time to play also...like Danny's birthday
The good ol SB crew hol'n it down
We also had a thanksgiving dinner for the Americans...that was great...and the same overeating fest occurred all the way in Ukraine.
Then coming to a close, we had a goodbye party with our host families. One last ooorah for all of us together.
The nicer of the 10 million takes we took of this
The cooler of the 10 million that we took.
And finally a few photos on becoming a volunteer....our swearing in ceremony....
Don't keep the gangsters out in the cold for two hours, or we start mean mugging....just kidding!
Getting some Ukrainian love...from some of my favs
Keeping the diversity of USA alive!
I have a bunch of pictures that I'd like to share, also a bunch of stories, but thats for later....
I'm now in Kirovograd, Ukraine....its been a blast since I've arrived here this past week. And I'm so gamed to be living here for two years and discovering what this city and its people behold! WISH ME LUCK!
Miss you all too! Happy Holidays!
