my webpage

To marvel at the newest accomplishment of mine in the field of IT please visit http://www.kyrgyzstan.republika.pl ;D

My impressions from teaching practice

Well, to be honest, I don't remember my first teaching experience that well anymore.

It was for sure some 3 years ago. I was teaching German in a primary school and I can remember that the kids were amazing. Some of them noisy, some good-tempered but all of them lovely and so funny. I loved to observe how they learn because at that age it's actually quite visible, I mean how they struggle to draw conclusions, to remind themselves of something etc. Primary school is probably the place I'd like to work at. The only thing that shocked me was the deafening noise during the breaks;D

Roza Otunbayeva

Ok, so I started thinking about the topic and figuring out whom I should write about. Initially I wanted to write about one of the women in Polish politics. But then I thought "Hey, there are quite a few of them, it's not that bad after all" (which of course doesn't mean that I couldn't be better;). Thinking about Kyrgyzstan, where I happened to live for a while, I could not recall one female name connected with politics (and mind you I was there during the last presidential elections so politics was discussed quite often). So I started browsing the internet. And finally, when I was just about to give up I found a female politician:D

Her name is Roza Otunbayeva and she is currently a member of the so called Jogorku Kenesh- the Kyrgyz Parliament. She was the first and the only woman in the history of modern Kyrgyzstan to hold the post of the foreign minister. Moreover, she was one of the leaders of the Tulip Revolution, which led to overthrow of Kyrgyzstan's first president Askar Akayev. Probably the most fascinating thing about women like her is the fact that they have to be really strong personalities to be able to work in an environment reserved (and here I mean really reserved) for men.

My very best friend:)

It all started long before we went to school. Me and Ala didn't go to the same kindergarten but luckily we were immediate neighbours;) One day I remember I was playing in my garden and suddenly a tall girl came up and greeted me. She asked me if she could play with me. Of course I said yes and this is how it all began. There were times when we were unseparable. We went together to primary school and to junior high. Eventhough our friendship has had its ups and downs it survived and we are still best friends. I really couldn't dream of a better friend than Ala and I am grateful that I met her:)

CHANGE

I've seen just fragments of the inauguration ceremony and well, it was just another ceremony. Perhaps more significant because Obama is the first African-American who became president. What's important for me is that Americans have elected him. I think it was the best choice. I really want to believe in the CHANGE he promised to millions of his fellow citizents. I trust that he will live up to his promise. 

teaching practice

Another year, another teaching practice. 

BTW, it is already my third year (the first one was when I was still studying Applied Linguistics and it concerned teaching German).

I have to admit that I do enjoy my practice. I'm not stressed and I have no problems with the students, who are just great regardless of their English skills. 

I do enjoy teaching, the observations, however, are a different issue. Sometimes they are just monotonous, especially if I have to observe the same lesson three times in a row. 

I never really devoted much time to thinking whether I'm going to be a teacher or not. It, kind of, doesn't matter for me right now. I'm still thinking whether to go to the School of Translations and Interpreting or not and whether to focus on English or German. It's a question I'm consistently refusing to answer till the moment comes, when I will be literally forced to do it;D 

I just don't know yet what my future occupation will be and I do not want to say that I'm never going to do this or that because who knows what's going to happen... ;-) 

OK, so this is my childhood photo. Back then I was about 2 years old. 

The actucal idea of my parents was to make a nice photo of me in the city centre, however, as you can see I didn't really want to cooperate;D They told me to stand still and started to walk off and I thought they were going to leave me, probably that's why I started crying. Anyway, it's probably one of my favourite photos:-)