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Babushka: September 2007
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Chachkes I'm collecting on my adventures in Minsk. Monday, September 24, 2007. So if you’re an Italian living in Belarus and you’re missing the taste of home, drop by Preston Market and pick up a Kellogs box, because like the sign says, “Italy is HERE! 8221; Before you rush to the check out line with your goods, be sure to check out the fresh home-made Polish-import pastas just across from the cereal section. Gig at the Fall Festival. Memorial Unveiled in Slutsk Brings in Somber New Year. 8220;It is very...
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Babushka: July 2007
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Chachkes I'm collecting on my adventures in Minsk. Wednesday, July 25, 2007. June’s Best Babushka: Founding Baba, Sonia Filkova. This Babushka is one of the 4 founding mothers of the post-Soviet Belarusian Jewish community. Before any Jewish organization had been established in Minsk, or anywhere else in the country for that matter, Sonia taught the Belarusian. Sonia has one grandson who participates in programming in the Minsk Jewish Campus. Labels: Babushka of the Month. Friday, July 13, 2007. At that ...
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JenFX: June 2007
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Hi This blog is a record of my experience getting a fellowship as an English Language Teacher Trainer in Ukraine. Enjoy! Thursday, June 28, 2007. Like any good "telenovela" . . . In the "final episodes" the loose ends seem to be finding closure:. One of the teachers just received the permission she has been waiting to get from a publisher to use a textbook excerpt in her article. I just received a copy of a journal with an article I submitted for publication months ago. It is hard to say that I have a fu...
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JenFX: "Dacha" road, take me home...
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Hi This blog is a record of my experience getting a fellowship as an English Language Teacher Trainer in Ukraine. Enjoy! Saturday, June 02, 2007. Dacha" road, take me home. OK, so I'm trying to be clever with a song title again. but the main themes here are "dacha", a word meaning 'summer home' which is another one of those words that is not translated when people speak English, and countryside. A couple teachers recently took Joe and me on an outing to an outdoor museum on the outskirts. Like any good t...
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JenFX: Back in the USSR
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Hi This blog is a record of my experience getting a fellowship as an English Language Teacher Trainer in Ukraine. Enjoy! Tuesday, June 19, 2007. Back in the USSR. OK, we're not really in the Soviet Union, but so much of what we are seeing in Crimea is a throw-back to the old days. Some of the street vendors tell the prices in "rubles" (they don't use them here in Ukraine anymore! We are staying in a type of resort called a "sanitorium" (yet another one of those words that doesn't get translated when peop...
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JenFX: January 2007
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Hi This blog is a record of my experience getting a fellowship as an English Language Teacher Trainer in Ukraine. Enjoy! Wednesday, January 24, 2007. Sunday, January 21, 2007. Father Frost Still Waiting for Snow. Well, we are back in the Ukraine groove. On our way back through Madrid we went to the. Reina Sofia Art Museum. After explaining that this was a representation of a bombing, she asked, "What do the people have as tongues? The kids called out, "knives! What shape are their eyes? Eastern Europe" h...
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JenFX: November 2006
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Hi This blog is a record of my experience getting a fellowship as an English Language Teacher Trainer in Ukraine. Enjoy! Saturday, November 25, 2006. Should I wear the hat? However, it is entertaining to meet up with expats like us. Earlier this week, I gave two workshops at the Peace Corps training center (I'm not sick anymore, by the way). They have 101 new English teaching volunteers that will go to their posts, some in remote parts of Ukraine, in. Next week we are going to. What is your last name?
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JenFX: Like any good "telenovela" . . .
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Hi This blog is a record of my experience getting a fellowship as an English Language Teacher Trainer in Ukraine. Enjoy! Thursday, June 28, 2007. Like any good "telenovela" . . . In the "final episodes" the loose ends seem to be finding closure:. One of the teachers just received the permission she has been waiting to get from a publisher to use a textbook excerpt in her article. I just received a copy of a journal with an article I submitted for publication months ago. It is hard to say that I have a fu...
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JenFX: Dnipropetrovsk: Secret City
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Hi This blog is a record of my experience getting a fellowship as an English Language Teacher Trainer in Ukraine. Enjoy! Saturday, May 19, 2007. In Kyiv right now it is in the 80's. Talk about a heat wave . . . we have no A/C in our apartment. The 300-mile train trip was pleasant and allowed us to see the landscape and farmland southeast of Kyiv. Was right in the center of town; people didn't seem to know if this "monument" even had a name or not. The figures looked very 'proud' and 'happy' to be on ...
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Babushka: November 2006
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Chachkes I'm collecting on my adventures in Minsk. Friday, November 24, 2006. Over the River and Through the Woods to Zhudinovichi We Go: Flannel in the FSU. Wednesday, November 22, 2006. Look Mom, No Subtitles! Eritchka Sees Her First Russian Film in Minsk. Last night Eritchka went with Alona, the logistical assistant at the Joint, to see the acclaimed Russian film,. An epic drama which was the closing film of the 2006 Venice Film Festival. They saw this film in the. Monday, November 20, 2006. AJJDC wor...