A Full Week with Both Us Here

Today is Friday and I have been here a week.... and since B.J. came earlier, this is the end of the first week we both have been in Letohrad.  It has been a week of acclimation... and coughing.  Both of us developed some kind of cold thing although we both had different symptoms.  NO... I did not bring it from the States... I still maintain we only shared in an existing strain here... And I'm sticking to my story.  Nothing serious just very annoying; mostly to other people.

We met our flat mates this week, a very nice young woman and her 6 year old son. They do not speak English so we engage in a lot of sign language.  We did, however, first meet her when Dan and Renata were here so we able to have a complete conversation and feel comfortable with each other; especially important since we share a common hallway to each flat and we cannot help running into each other.  The other person sharing our building is a local Accountant whose one room office is just off the entrance way.  She also does not speak English and ditto.... lots of hand waving.

We visited two of the basic (elementary level) schools here in town, one is on U Dvora street and the other is on Komenskeho street.  The plan is for us to engage four classes in the Komenskeho school and three classes in the U Dvora school.  As you can see from the photos below the groups are elementary school age and have a good command of English.  We will meet the Komenskeho classes on Mondays and the U Dvora classes on Fridays through the remainder of the school year which will go through the end of June.

Komenskeho Class 1B

Komenskeho Class 1A

Komenskeho Class 2

Komenskeho Class 3

You will notice there are actually four groups instead of three. That is because groups 1A and 1B will alternate from week to week.  

 We goofed and did not get a photo of the first class at the U Dvora school so we only have the last two groups here.

U Dvora Class 2

U Dvora Class 3

We are really enthused with this opportunity although it is a very exhausting experience.  I have maximum respect for any teacher!

And just to round out the week we took on the green monster below the other day and after 30 minutes or so with the instructions from the internet - in Czech - and our Google translate programs achieved success... and just in time; the sock drawer was getting pretty thin!




And finally, we had the kick-off 'Discussion Club' meeting on Tuesday.  There were fourteen people and we decided to have two sessions, Advanced and Intermediate English, on Wednesday's.  Advanced at 6 PM and the Intermediate on the same night at 7:15.

So until later......