I was excited to come back to campus after over a week of being away. I was excited to see what things looked like, how much snow had fallen and then melted. This first picture is of he phone booth. Unfortunately the snow pile on the top had been knocked down, but check out how big the scooping pile was! Pretty Amazing! I also took some pictures of campus the next morning when I woke up. I also took pictures of the sad, sad, sad, gazebo! I am so glad no one was under it! It looks as though the support beams just snapped under the weight of the snow on top.
We also went back to work today. For the first part of this semester I am going to be working on creating a Language Fair with the Language Center. This fair has several purposes. They are to celebrate World Language Month, to promote SEE-U to high school students, and to announce the winners of an Essay Contest that the Language Center is also sponsoring. I am excited to get to be a part of this. We are going to have students in the Academic English and Advanced Academic English classes run booths representing different languages. They get to be as creative as they want in the information they share. The language booths that we will have, include: Turkish, Albanian, Macedonian, German, British English, Australian English, and American English. This should turn out to be a pretty amazing project- it is promoting the university and giving current students a different way to express their learning and knowledge!
Tuesday night, Cassidy traveled to Tetovo to give a presentation on American Wedding Traditions. I came to listen too! She did a great job explaining how there are some traditions that are widespread across weddings, but that most weddings have different portions depending on background, religion, and personal preference. We also got to hear a few things from those in attendance regarding differences in the traditions here in Macedonia. Following Cassidy's presentation, I filled in for Conversation hour. Since it was the day after President's Day, I decided to have our topic be about being president. We talked about how President's Day became a holiday and why it is celebrated. Then I had prepared some questions that we all shared our opinions about. Questions like: Would you want to be president? What are the president's job responsibilities? What would you change if you were president. It was a great time!
Tuesday night, Cassidy traveled to Tetovo to give a presentation on American Wedding Traditions. I came to listen too! She did a great job explaining how there are some traditions that are widespread across weddings, but that most weddings have different portions depending on background, religion, and personal preference. We also got to hear a few things from those in attendance regarding differences in the traditions here in Macedonia. Following Cassidy's presentation, I filled in for Conversation hour. Since it was the day after President's Day, I decided to have our topic be about being president. We talked about how President's Day became a holiday and why it is celebrated. Then I had prepared some questions that we all shared our opinions about. Questions like: Would you want to be president? What are the president's job responsibilities? What would you change if you were president. It was a great time!
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| Wedding Traditions presentation |
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| Cassidy and I having a good laugh during her presentation |
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| Conversation Hour |
Lesson: Excitement that is a effect of inspiration is so contagious!
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