One week left! One week left! I never imagined that teachers celebrate the end of a semester just as much (if not more) than students do. I have one week left in my first semester of teaching health in Moldova, and I could not be more excited for the two week long vacation that awaits. December 8, 2011 marked my 6th month in Moldova, half a year! People ask if it has gone by quickly, and my answer is always difficult to explain. The days are slow... really slow, but then you blink and a week, a month, six months have gone by. I can't believe that I've been living in Moldova for half a year... my Romanian should really be better :) Eh, I just taught a whole semester of health. I'm awesome haha. I even managed to teach a few times this semester by myself. I could handle my adorable 5th graders alone, but the 8th graders were another story. They were... difficult. It's sad when 5th graders can be more mature and well behaved than 8th graders, but hey 14 is an interesting age.
This semester I also began a project about HIV/AIDS prevention and healthy relationships among adolescents. The project will include discussions with students in grades 9 and 10, a fundraiser talent show, and a mural project. I am working with a new partner for this project. She is a nurse at the medical center in my village, and she is so wonderful/fun to work with! I look forward to working with her, and getting to know her. Our idea for the mural is something like a mosaic made from colored tiles/stones placed in cement in the ground by the school. Something like the following picture is what we're thinking. However we'd like to use red, yellow, and blue (Moldovan colors), include a map of Moldova, and have a different quote.
The following pictures are of my host mom and I chopping down a tree for the fire place, and my host mom's brother's birthday party. Oh, and I also cut off 10 inches of my hair last week :)
