School days/daze?

Garry and I are teaching for the second week in a row. This is unusual, the normal schedule is we teach one week and the group home parents teach classes the following week, with Maria and Victor teaching classes on that Thursday because they come for staff meeting. Maria teaches writing and last month Victor was drafted by the group home parents to teach a dating and marriage class.

First year students putting seeds in wet paper towels in bags

Garry has the first year students conducting some experiments with seeds, the second year students are working on budgeting and inventory as they near the end of their studies. Both groups are excited that this week is milk products week. On Monday they separated cream so class was at our house, and today they will make torog (cottage cheese) out of the skimmed milk which has been sitting on the window sill in my pots, since Monday, Ukrainian style.

Yesterday, the second year students met at our our again so they could use the internet, since it is not working in the classroom this week. While I was having English class, Garry opened the door and a chicken walked into the house. Someone had left the boot room door open and one of the neighbor's chickens had gone inside, so she came in with him.

Most of the students were chasing the chicken around the living room, but it turned out Sasha was the best chicken catcher, and snagged her quietly. Kolya and Julia helped put her back outside.

Sasha, Kolya and Julia with the chicken who came in the house

Photo by Valera

Then it was back to watching The Gingerbread Man, after learning all about colds in English and the guy named Pedro who went to work sick.

Back in the classroom for English  this morning