Last week
HELLO.
SO, the past few weeks has been pretty epic. Like when i say epic, we haven’t been like totally doing something every minute of the day but pretty much were doing almost something every day if this all makes sense.
So, Monday was our day off as per usual so we did our shop. Normal Monday. On Tuesday we had Children’s home in the morning and before that we had Croatian. I wasn’t feeling too well so I stayed at home while Holly and Hannah went to the Children’s home. Apparently they tried to marry Holly off to one of the kids who live there. Mental. Then later on in the evening Gabrijela came round to talk to us about school. Remember that time when we had the most dire day ever at the Disabled place, and then we met a bunch of amazing people after it? Well one of them was Gabrijela, and she seemed super keen for us 3 to come into her school and help her with her English classes, going into different classes for different people earning different stages of English, and then possibly put us in their newspaper website everything. So we met with her on Thursday and we started off in one of her classes.
So now in total we have been in Gabrijela’s classes around 4 times with around 20 students in each class. Then also, word got about the school that we were English and some of the teachers found this rather interesting. So another English teacher came up to us and introduced herself as Ivanka and she teaches a lower grade of English compared to Gabrijela. The other English teachers nick named her Miss daisy, because thats what her name means in English apparently, but she doesn’t know that. So then we have been to a total of 5 different English classes with her, and she also had around 20 students. So lets do some maths:
4 x 20 = 80
5 x 20 =100
100 + 80 = 180
180 STUDENTS WE HAVE MET OVER THE PAST 2 WEEKS
( actually it’s 160, one of the classes got repeated today… still, its a mahooooosive amount of people)
flippin mental.
We have done pretty much the same things in each of the classes. We will sit down in-front of the class, or Miss Daisy made us sit in a circle, which was way more intimidating. So we introduce ourselves, why we are here, what our hobbies are, small things like that., then the classes aim would be to ask us a few questions back, of which they would write an essay about. The more they know about us, the more points they get. So here are a few of the repeated questions we have had:
- ‘Do you have a boyfriend?’ (this was tried to be censored by the teacher, but still fell out of the pupils mouths.)
- ‘How old are you?’
- ‘What do you like about Croatia?’
- ‘Why are you here?!’
- ‘What is your favourite type of music’
- ‘Can I have your phone number?’
- ‘Where do you come from?’
- ‘What are you doing tonight? Can we go for coffee?’
- ‘What is the night life in your home town? Have you been out here yet? We can take you if you like?’
So on and so forth. So it can get a bit tedious sometimes, and a little boring, but the way i see it, is that we are making more and more connections with people, possibly building relationships and everything else. It’s pretty awesome.
Gabrijela did say to us though that she has never seen her class of boys been so giggly and acting like little girls before, and apparently they are all asking when we’re going to come back. Ha. It’s pretty cool, a bit weird, but it gives us something else to do :)
So our plan is to keep on going for as long as they need us. And i have probably forgotten alot of the things that i was like ’ :O imma blog it.’
WAIT. one of the kids in the class was wearing a top with the ‘Durex’ logo on it, saying ‘Durex CONNECTING PEOPLE’ we all had a bit of a crease at the front of the class. ha.
Anywho, thats it for now, more of an update later :)
xx
i just remembered something else. In Miss Daisy’s class, the second lesson she brought tea and cake which was cute. tea was minging though. We were like, what sort of tea is this and they were like it’s a small red berry thing. And we’re like whatttt?! And none of us can think of what it is, so if you know let us know yes? So we never have to touch it again. Plus in Miss daisy’s class today i said ‘i generally can’t be arsed’ and they looked at me like i was more foreign than i already am, i then i had to correct myself by saying, ‘I can’t be bothered’. We have come to realise that Miss Daisy has a umm… ‘special’ way of teaching. We think she makes stuff up in english and we just have to nod along with it ha. PLUS. The last few times we have seen her, first she had a ‘I love London’ bag and today she wore a black top with a sparkly purple LONDON across it. i have nothing to say about this. Nothing at all.
@2 years ago#Imogen
