I only have one more week of school and plan on turning it into a huge Christmas music dance party. I’ve officially turned into the American Holiday girl. During Thanksgiving I went to most classes and talked about the history of Thanksgiving and showed pictures of our Thanksgiving dinner in Armenia. Now I’ve been recruited to teach about Christmas. I know I’m going to have a blast teaching the children Christmas songs and ‘trying’ to translate the songs together into Armenian. I hope that after New Year’s I can start teaching more actual English lessons because learning about American holidays won’t really help the children in the long run. The Spelling Bee was a great success so I want my students to join in two other competitions in the coming months focused on writing and poetry.
In other news, I finally have a visa and my passport back! I’ve been stressing out the past weeks because our visas had expired and we had to send out passports to Yerevan to get the situation fixed. Many of us are going out of the country in the next few weeks so we were anxiously awaiting our visas. Another volunteer is bringing back my passport today because I have no time to go there before I begin my Christmas adventures. Over the next few weeks I will be traveling to Tbilisi, Istanbul and all over Armenia with my boyfriend. I’m looking forward to Christmas parties, New Year’s celebrations, an engagement party and a visit back to my old host family. I probably won’t write again until January J
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!
Have fun with Andy! Can't wait to hear all about your travels :)
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