Friday, January 23, 2009

Today we started teaching in the Transport College. Other groups have worked in this college including me. The teacher, Ms. Margarita, was so excited to have us although she missed having my uncle Scotty there. The class today was 10 boys and one of the directors of the school, Igor. Igor joins in on the classes because he too wants to learn english. We started off by introducing ourselves and telling about our families. The students were then free to ask us questions and they wanted to hear interesting stories about our lives. Which I don't have any that would really be good for a class setting. Hannah then reviewed body parts and I reviewed personality traits. I absolutely loved being back in this school. Ms. Margarita has asked us to come back and to teach 2 more classes. God has opened the door here just pray he opens the doors in other universities. For lunch we went to a pizza parlor and it was so good. I got a 20 cm pizza and coke for about 3 dollars, jealous? We then came back to the apartment to rest before our evening schedule. Erin tutors a young man from the church on Fridays named Pasha. So we went with her to help. He is a really great young man who is eager to learn. We also met with Ira who is a very active church youth who is a teacher. She invites middle school age kids over to her home for English on Saturdays. She asked us to help her so we met with her to go over what Bible story we would tell. The kids are suppose to be building a snowman tomorrow but Erin said that my cold sounds like it has moved into my chest and that it would be wise if we didn't participate. Then home for rest and dinner. We made a chicken and broccoli alfredo casserole. During dinner we watched Psych which is one of Erin's favorite shows. We are expecting quite a few guests tonight, the youth from the church want to come and visit. Youth here can be from the ages of 13-30, so most of them are only a few years young than we are. Oh! By the way I have been given an Ukrainian name so I am now Nadia! But I am so excited about all that we are getting to do and I thank God for all that he has prepared for us.

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  1. I just had a random thought. If you were to bake brownies, the oven temp is in Celcius, isn't it? How do you cook? Do you just have a handy conversion table?

    It is so cool to hear about how eager everyone is to learn. It's so hard to find an American with such hunger for knowledge!

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