Friday, August 9, 2013

The Virginia and Washington, D. C. Show

Message of the day shared by Eric: Students don’t care how much you know until they know how much you care. This quote is attributed to many, many persons, but is thought to have been originally started within the medical profession with the use of the word patients at the beginning. 

“Oh, what a beautiful morning; Oh, what a beautiful day; We’ve got a beautiful feeling ; everyone’s loving Friday."

Bringing the week’s language lessons to a close was the “Virginia and Washington, D. C.” show brought to us (all 54 students, counselors, and teachers) starring Ben and Eric. Some of us had to be open to learning about what we thought we already knew. Perhaps even Wikipedia Dick didn’t know about Mount Trashmore as many of us didn’t.
Eric captured the students’ attention with pictures of an aircraft carrier. Later he drew ooohs and aaahs with pictures of his dogs Stella and Bella, and then, aaaws in response to the cat pictures.  The students waited expectantly for the Google Earth photo to zoom in on Ben’s school.  After a virtual tour of the National Zoo, Eric got a standing ovation. Oops, after much applause, I guess the students were rushing off to lunch.
But speaking of standing ovations, every meal at Reymontowka is a five star event with some part of the meal pleasing every palette. Polish Nutella, anyone?
In the afternoon, Brenda, Ben, Eric, and Gary were off to Krakow, and Lori, to Warsaw.  They missed the spaghetti that Dick, Greg, and Freya and Sophia and I carfed up so quickly that Greg was off to the kitchen for more before he was intercepted by Wojciech who thought Greg couldn’t communicate with the cooks, but the empty dish and Greg’s great smile would have said it all.
After supper Sophia and Connie rushed off to Siedlce and Lublin and  Dick, Freya, and Greg whiled away a leisurely evening in the workroom.
Tune in tomorrow for the weekend’s travel highlights, and remember: “there is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so.” Aaah Shakespeare!

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