First Day in the Classroom!

FINALLY, we got to meet some of our students in our first classes at our new school!!  J   We didn’t have many classes with our light schedule, but it was fun to finally get to be the teacher again.  Our kids are wonderful and well behaved, (at least so far!), and they are eager to meet the new American teachers they have heard about.  The first class lesson plan is basically the same for all our classes – introducing ourselves, having them make name tents so we can learn their names, and assigning a 2-minute speech using a notecard for the next class.  Their English is really good, and they are amused at our minimal Slovak vocabulary.  J  We each will have 10 different groups of 12 students, so it will be a lot of names to learn. 

Tim's first period class.   The class ended with........
"Have a Magical Day!"     :-)   

We asked one of Tim's students to take a photo of us together
on our first day of teaching in Liptovsky Mikulas! 

I had all morning free, so I made a bulletin board.  (Don’t faint, Lisa Evans!!  LOL!!)  We were assigned a bulletin board, so I used different fonts and wrote different English expressions related to getting the school year off to a good start.  It’s Tim’s turn for the next one!   ;-)   We also continued working on the new curriculum with Carol – she really knows her stuff!! 

English expressions for a successful effort at school!
(The small white squares are pictures that go with the phrases.) 

Our bulletin board.  
(Also the basketball poster for Eric and Tim's after-school program.)

Then of course, the school day ends after 6^th hour all this first week, so we walked over to the canteen for another good lunch with some of the teachers.  Chicken and rice soup, then schnitzel with mashed potatoes, and cucumber/onion/vinegar salad just like Judith's.  :-)  We got a few more things done after lunch, but everyone was leaving by about 2:30 again. 

We walked uptown for some quick errands – changing money, finding rubber bands and folders for our classes, getting some stamps at the post office, and then on the way home we stopped at a corner kiosk and bought baguette sandwiches for supper, which we’ll eat later.  We had to be back by 4:30 because the landlady, Luba, and her husband came back to check on the water pipes.  They stopped by yesterday with the neighbor who lived in Ireland and speaks English, saying the neighbor below noticed some moisture on the ceiling.  They didn’t find anything, so wanted to check again today.  Yesterday Luba brought us some plums and apples from their garden that are delicious!! 

Our internet isn’t working today after school, so we’re really bummed.  The neighbor says it goes out for a while every now and then – so at least we know it’s not a problem with our computer, since her internet is down too.  LATER....... Well, we are now at a cafe/bar with free wireless internet, so we've been able to check emails and update the blog.  :-)  It's another beautiful day in the neighborhood - we had so much fun, we're going to do it all again tomorrow!!