Teaching English- Canada Day

 

This week we were busy teaching English again. There were many exciting things included this week. I was extra busy at the beginning of the week as Garry and I planned the special assembly for Canada Day.

Every year we have a Canada Day and students are asked to dress in red and or white to celebrate and the teachers hand out pencils and bracelets and other goodies in class.


This year for assembly my theme was A Taste of Canada and Monday night I was busy rolling out sugar cookies and cutting out more than 100 maple leaves and baking them, while Garry and the girls were making food for dinner around me because there was a thunderstorm brewing and Garry thought we might lose power again.

I had Canadian candies and  potato chips that I had brought in my suitcase and everyone got to try something, there was a costume contest and we sang O Canada, of course. Some students are wondering who would put vinegar on potato chips ( I can't understand why crab is popular here, so...) Next week some of the students are in charge of Ukrainian Day for equal time.

On Thursday night it was the annual SEI party at the Word of Life church, this year they had a super hero theme. A number of students came and we played some games and had some food and the pastor had a short message.









Then on Saturday morning we drove in from the village for the annual picnic, fortunately the predicted rain and thunderstorms did not arrive; it had rained most of the day Friday with a similar forecast. However we hung out with past and present students that came and ate a lot of food, with only a few drops falling around 10:30 am.

Luckily we had arranged to stay in the city for a couple days because the van broke down as we got to the apartment Garry had rented for three nights- water was pouring out (rad or a hose). We are hoping to get it fixed Monday. Meanwhile we are walking a lot and enjoying a few rides to places. Tomorrow  morning its back to our last week of English teaching.

Garry is hoping for less rain this week, it rained quite a lot this past week or two. Now he's wanting to get the hay baled and is worried about getting mold in the sunflowers! It looks like we will filled the old hay mow after all. Second cut was only half normal but it looks like a lot of bales to make now. Max cut some on Saturday so hopefully it gets dry and baled without getting rained on.