Teaching

Hello!
It has been a busy week as expected, we met 4 Americans on Sunday who are living with us for the week. This is "super-awesome" and "kick-ass" and I am getting the urge to write "GO U.S. TEAM!! WOO! U-S-A, U-S-A!!"

Only joking, they are very cool and culturally aware of my sarcastic, off-beat British ways.

We have been teaching English to about 15 Polish kids aged 14-18. We do a morning and evening slot and have visited some local youth-clubs during the afternoons so its a pretty packed schedule. They are on their Summer holiday so we make it really fun with lots of games and fun. My personal favourite is a game where you have to put a pair of tights over your head and try and eat a banana through the material....messy AND educational!

We have made good freinds with the people who are coming, and have had some good meaningful conversations with them.

I taught a lesson on British slang yesterday. I wrote words such as "bloke", "taking the mickey", "you jammy dodger" and "cheery-o" on the board and they had to try and guess what the word meant. My favourite reply was: "a bloke is someone who plays cricket!" There is now a small community of Polish youth who say "cheery-o" when they say goodbye to each other!

The teaching ends on Saturday night then me and Luke go to SLOT festival (a music and art festival) on Sunday to camp for a week.

I am ok. Pretty tired. Missing beautiful Ruth. But having a good time.

There are crazy storms every day here at lest twice a day. So it is mega-hot, then the thunder rolls in and it absolutely hammers it down for about 1/2 hr, then drizzles for a few hours ,then clears up again. Some locals are worried about flooding!

Hope you are all well, love reading your comments so post away! I think you need to sighn up 1st ,or if you have a goooglemail account you can do it that way.

Much loving
Jonny