Thought for the Day:
Wednesday, May 19, 2010
Tomorrow, tomorrow---that’s been our song for days but finally, today, tomorrow arrived and we could sing “Here comes the sun . . . .” as it broke through the clouds late in the morning. The world lit up and so did we.
We are, in Audrey’s words, settling into comfortable routines at our schools and here at home, Reymontowka. We have finally internalized the fact that dessert is with supper (colazion), not with lunch (obiad which means dinner). Obiad has soup (zupa) as the first course, then the full formal meal.
Georgianna’s day was nicely paced. The usual morning at Niwiski, meeting with four classes: a fourth grade, two third grades, and the fifth grade. This was her day without an afternoon tutoring session, so she holed up in the cozy yet spacious wood-paneled resource room under the eaves and worked her way through all three log books, one for each grade.
Audrey reports that she and Margaret (Gosia) are becoming more of a team every day as they teach together at Cisie---today grades 1, 4 and 6. The highlight of her day was a lovely afternoon nap, followed by a walk in the countryside before our evening meal.
Jim spent the day with his Spoleczna school students witnessing an amazing production of student talent at a sports center in Siedlce. But it wasn’t nearly as athletic as it was artistic! As it turned out, the Baroque Project had been planned for the school featuring gorgeous period costumes, rehearsed dramatizations, dance routines, and other theatrics, all staged on a gymnasium floor. Properties such as draped folding chairs, microphones, posters depicting regal crests, and other paraphernalia were quickly carried to the performance area by the entertainers themselves, and just as rapidly removed for the next presentation. All of the scenes were laudable! It was obvious that the students, ranging in age from six to 15, had worked very hard at this project.
The afternoon ended with the return of Aneta and Joanna to Reymontowka for another tutoring session. A good time was had by all, exploring American idioms and slang!
0 comments:
Post a Comment