Small Updates:

---teaching english at the Kindergarten and its starting to come along (i think).. I have been there 4 times and they know the english alphabet, about 10 animals, 1-10, and hello! and goodbye! I am really proud of them. they are bright kids. The teacher asked me to teach them English Christmas songs so that will be fun:) An upcoming project I want to start for them to be able to learn more English iis to start a "Story time on Saturday morning." First Saturday of the month I am going to read 2 books in English- you know books like see spot run, and this is what i do on a daily basis... I am starting this in December and I think this will be a good project, i will get to meet parents and the kids will learn through association which is how i think they are learning best. at least this class that i am teaching.

---soon I will be offering private English tutoring at the Chitalitste, that will be interesting. Its difficult enough to teach kindergartners but i think it will be WAY difficult to do this. I think that my Bulgarian vocabulary is not up to par to be able to do this but my boss and my director at the Peace Corps seems to think i can do it so i am trusting thier instinct. We are going to give this a 3 month trial to see how things will go. A lot of people in town are asking me to teach them English so i really hope this is successful.

---Also, another thing that is coming up soon is Pilates class. yay-a! I am teaching a "fitness course" to the ladies here. I dont know who is interested just yet but i just made the flyer today so we will see the results.

--- Another idea I have is for the teenagers in town to do kinda like kids night as to what Sharonville Rec does. I want to have an event for them once a month. The school has a projector and other equipment  to be able to play movies.Maybe play a movie every other month and every other month do things like Karioke night/ talent show/ themed party, etc. This idea is not at all developed. I still need to talk to the teens in town to see what they are interested in. This past week I went to an after school art program at the High school. There were 2 kids there and they seemed interested to help me with upcoming projects. (i think this is a good start to good things...)

 

Let me know what you think of these ideas. REALLY! How I can expand them, what kinds of things i need to do to prepare, etc, etc.

Love you and sorry for the long silence,

Jenna