cold snow

Nothing to report. Winter continues. Classes go, students learn, most exciting the tenth form is learning a play for English week. The teacher who brought it in actually got it from some Peace Corps volunteers who worked in her university when she was training to be a teacher. It’s cool to see that some progressive techniques are being propagated by Ukrainians. It’s a version of Cinderella with reversed sex roles and it also plays with the stereotypes of beauty. Unfortunately it doesn’t look like we’ll have time to explore the underlying themes as the vocabulary and memorizing lines is taking up all the time. We only have a week total of rehearsal before the performance, and the tenth graders are very busy. Now it’s time for one of those rehearsals, then Ukrainian tutoring, then to start baking and preparing food for my birthday party.