Leaving! ...
This'll be quick. I'm leaving tomorrow for Kokshetau, far from my best friends from PST (and romantic interest of intentionally undefined status because she is moving to Uralsk, about a hundred hours of train travel away). PST will be a drop in the bucket of Peace Corps service, but it feels like it's been years since I've arrived. Citizens! Maladtzi! Azamattar! I will miss you!
I was officially made a volunteer yesterday (before we were "Peace Corps Trainees". Yes, when people called us volunteers the staff corrected them.). Shortly thereafter I blew an interview on Kazakhstan national television - they asked the questions in Kazakh to two volunteers, and I didn't understand questions like "What is your parents' impression of your desire to serve?" Of course Theresa, who is the better speaker, went first and got questions like, "Do you like Kazakhstan?" It wasn't live, fortunately. Hopefully editing will be kind to me.
The other weird news is that evidently I'll be teaching three hours of math right away, in English, by myself. Peace Corps fortunately stepped in on my behalf and insisted that I be paired with a faculty member who can be my mentor. I think they might have unrealistically high expectations of me. My couterpart is awesome, though. I'm her fourth volunteer, she had thirty years of teaching experience, won Accels last year, is the head of Kokshetau's English Teachers' Association, etc.
And at last, here are the links to our KokTobe2 computer secondary project webpages!
* Jyldyz
* Medet
* Saltanat
I was officially made a volunteer yesterday (before we were "Peace Corps Trainees". Yes, when people called us volunteers the staff corrected them.). Shortly thereafter I blew an interview on Kazakhstan national television - they asked the questions in Kazakh to two volunteers, and I didn't understand questions like "What is your parents' impression of your desire to serve?" Of course Theresa, who is the better speaker, went first and got questions like, "Do you like Kazakhstan?" It wasn't live, fortunately. Hopefully editing will be kind to me.
The other weird news is that evidently I'll be teaching three hours of math right away, in English, by myself. Peace Corps fortunately stepped in on my behalf and insisted that I be paired with a faculty member who can be my mentor. I think they might have unrealistically high expectations of me. My couterpart is awesome, though. I'm her fourth volunteer, she had thirty years of teaching experience, won Accels last year, is the head of Kokshetau's English Teachers' Association, etc.
And at last, here are the links to our KokTobe2 computer secondary project webpages!
* Jyldyz
* Medet
* Saltanat
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