More television---class time

Tuesday and Thursday are the days that Garry teaches (and I do my English class- I hear from the translator that they told her that there are so many words to learn in English that one hour is tiring- today we did articles of clothing) He has lectures in the morning on cow care - they are talking about what to feed a milking cow, and dairy cattle judging (turns out someone else is teaching the anatomy class) and then labs with experiments or practice at the barn. Garry was on the dairy cattle judging team back in his university days, thirty years ago, traveling to the World Dairy Expo and other contests around the US and Canada with four other students and the professor.

One of the Maxims is being interviewed for television

Masha, who is translating this week, helps some students

Students judging while the crew is filming

 The students couldn`t come to the barn until the school  bought rubber boots and coveralls for them. However the coveralls weren`t quite what Garry was picturing as they  don`t really cover all- as you can see they are more like lab coats in blue. Professional looking but they would stay cleaner in real coveralls!

Jenia is wearing a labcoat while she is milking cows  in the middle of all the activity

Andrei in his boots and lab coat for class

Today it was dairy cattle judging practice in the afternoon at the farm with Garry (until there is enough money to finish remodelling and outfit the big barn with equipment and cows, everything happens in our little barn this year. To add to the fun, the ladies were still milking the cows, and a television crew were here to to film at the school. I understand that they taped at the house while the students ate lunch there,(sorry I still haven`t been there to take photos, but it has been nicknamed the palace) and then here at the barn, interviewing some of the students while they judged some of the cows Garry selected,  deciding which have more ideal physical traits for a good cow.

Next week Thursday the students are going on a field trip to a bigger farm- the one we have visited, there are photos on the moo-oosings blog, I think September of October 2011.