Giving Thanks
December 3, 2009, 11:32 pm by EmmaWell, we’ve now made it through two American Holidays in Ukraine! After teaching our students all about Halloween, we took 3 weeks off due to a national H1N1 quarantine, only to come back to school just in time for Thanksgiving! Last week’s English classes and clubs included vocabulary words such as: turkey, pilgrim, Native American, [...]
There Once Was a Dog
November 13, 2009, 1:06 am by AlexSome time ago we got this old Russian cartoon from our language teacher called Жил-был пёс (zhil-buil pyos) – There Once Was a Dog. I found it lying around on the hard-drive again today and thought I’d share it. It’s a great little story based on a Ukrainian folk tale. Beyond being a fun little [...]
Flu-cation spoiled!
November 10, 2009, 11:27 pm by AlexEmma and I are in week 2 of our 3 week national “quarantine”. An outbreak of Swine Flu in the western part of Ukraine led the government to cancel classes in every educational institution in the country. So we have 3 weeks off! Well, not exactly. My school had already scheduled a “fall break” for [...]
