First day at school!
We had a lazy day yesterday, didn't do much during the day, just rested because we had to get up at 6.30 today. In the evening we went to the Independent Armchair Theatre near our house and watched a South African movie called "Forgiveness" - I don't have time now to describe it here, but it was a really good (and very sad) movie.
Today we had our first day at school! We had to be there at 8 am. It took us about 40 minutes to drive there. The weather is very cold and rainy today...
The principal introduced us to the teachers, we also met some students, but we'll see all of them on Friday at a school meeting. Then, we were taken to the computer lab where we spent the whole day. It was a chaos there - nobody knew where to find CDs with software, passwords were missing, some computers broken etc. There is a new computer lab with good computers, but because some small parts are still missing, it cannot be used. And it has been like this for 3 months.
It came as a bit of a surprise to us that there was no Internet! But they said that they will have it by the end of this week.. Let's hope so..
Today we spent the day installing Windows in some of the computers and repairing a computer which broke down just today (it was the best one!!).
Tomorrow we'll set up a schedule of classes we will be teaching. We also need to give some classes to teachers.
It is very cold inside the school - there is no heating. People are wearing hats and coats all the time. I had my warmest clothes on and I was still cold.. even in the server room, where it's usually warm..
Probably the best experience today was hearing the school choir sing!! This was amazing! There were about 16 kids, both boys and girls.. and they really sounded like a professional choir! Their voices were really strong! Tiina, you would have loved to hear them sing! We are planning to record them.. They'll be practicing a lot because there will be a competion in September.
Right now I'm quite tired, but luckily tomorrow we can sleep a bit longer...
I really feel that I would like to go somewhere out, take a walk alone, run, do sports, anything... but here you cannot go out alone in the dark.. and it gets dark at about 6 pm..
Today we had our first day at school! We had to be there at 8 am. It took us about 40 minutes to drive there. The weather is very cold and rainy today...
The principal introduced us to the teachers, we also met some students, but we'll see all of them on Friday at a school meeting. Then, we were taken to the computer lab where we spent the whole day. It was a chaos there - nobody knew where to find CDs with software, passwords were missing, some computers broken etc. There is a new computer lab with good computers, but because some small parts are still missing, it cannot be used. And it has been like this for 3 months.
It came as a bit of a surprise to us that there was no Internet! But they said that they will have it by the end of this week.. Let's hope so..
Today we spent the day installing Windows in some of the computers and repairing a computer which broke down just today (it was the best one!!).
Tomorrow we'll set up a schedule of classes we will be teaching. We also need to give some classes to teachers.
It is very cold inside the school - there is no heating. People are wearing hats and coats all the time. I had my warmest clothes on and I was still cold.. even in the server room, where it's usually warm..
Probably the best experience today was hearing the school choir sing!! This was amazing! There were about 16 kids, both boys and girls.. and they really sounded like a professional choir! Their voices were really strong! Tiina, you would have loved to hear them sing! We are planning to record them.. They'll be practicing a lot because there will be a competion in September.
Right now I'm quite tired, but luckily tomorrow we can sleep a bit longer...
I really feel that I would like to go somewhere out, take a walk alone, run, do sports, anything... but here you cannot go out alone in the dark.. and it gets dark at about 6 pm..
posted by Kadri Aavik at 8:31 AM
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