Week 8 – Personal Development – 17th April 2011
Now that I am in school and teaching a few lessons each week I feel that I am going to be very busy, I don’t mind though, I really enjoy having something to do. This week the sun has come out and some great weather has arrived. I have been playing volleyball outside many times this week and hope to enter a few polish beach volleyball tournaments before I leave. Only a few weeks ago I spoke about how spring had finally arrived but I feel we have hit summer already. As I write this I am relaxing in the local park soaking up some rays and enjoying some mouth watering strawberries with some outdoor volleyball planned for this afternoon! This is the life!
This week has been quite a dramatic week for me. When I say this I am talking about the fact that I had a number of drama classes. In my multicultural class we had a special guest taking us for a lesson entitled drama as a means of multiculturalism. It was very interesting as I got to find out a lot about the Polish, Spanish and Turkish cultures by working with people from those countries. It was also very fun and interactive and was a great environment to address, through drama, some of the problems or benefits of multiculturalism that we have come across since being here. |
| Hamlet |
This week I also joined a drama group for beginners in the Polish language. Our plan is that we will write a script for a modern day ‘Little Red Riding Hood’, translate it into polish and then perform it for our friends here in Poland. We only have 4 weeks so it will definitely be a challenge but it is something I am really looking forward to in the hope that it will really advance my ability to speak the polish language. I have been cast as one of two narrators, the other is a puppet. I call him Hamlet.
This week I also had the opportunity to go to the cinema. It was the first time that I have been since arriving in Poland. We had heard that in Poland international movies were shown in English with Polish subtitles so we thought we would be fine. We went to see the new film ‘The Way Back.’ It is about prisoners escaping from a prison in Syberia and walking to India. Unfortunately a little of the movie was in Polish or in Russian and obviously they did not have English subtitles for this bit. Fortunately it was not enough to ruin the movie for us. And I did learn some new polish words by following along with the subtitles.
This week I am going on a school trip to the dentist with my school which I am extremely excited about and I hope to find out a little more about the polish culture in terms of the Easter celebration.
Ciao,
Jeff
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