GO Romania news, January 2009.
Rob and Bek arrived in Romania!
Two new teachers joined our team here in Târgu Mures, Romania. Rob and Bek came all the way from Tasmania, Australia! They had quite a journey to get here as their total travel time ended up being 48 hours. They flew out of Tasmania on December 30th, to Sydney on December 31st, then to Bangkok, after that to Vienna, next to Bucharest and finally took the train to Târgu Mures and arrived on Thursday January 1st, 2009. They left Australia last year and arrived in the New Year! Rob and Bek heard from their friend James who is also on our staff here at the school that we were looking for more teachers. After they prayed about it, they felt God lead them to come to Romania to teach English and reach out to the people here. We are so glad to have them here on our staff at the school and the team!
The Winter Term Began
The English school was closed for the holidays, so after a much needed rest the new term started once again. I think everyone was thankful for the break to relax a bit to spend time with their family and friends over the holidays. I myself returned to Canada for three weeks, a couple of other staff members were also able to return home as well and the rest of the teachers enjoyed the holidays in Romania. The winter term started at the English school here in Târgu Mures, Romania on Monday January 12th and the following week the children’s classes began once again. The schedule looks full and busy once again as all of the staff are teaching full-time hours at the school. We once again have offered classes of all the levels from Intro all the way up to the CAE preparation course. There are classes for the children from preschool age up to 14 years of age of a variety of different levels. We have also built an additional room to the school down in the cellar thanks to Dylan coming from Gillingham Commmunity Church in the UK!
Tour of London
No, we did not really go to London! Our first social event with the students this term was a game with the students where we went to different classrooms to find different landmarks in the city of London until finally we got all forty of the landmarks. It was amazing to see everyone run to different classrooms and it turned out to be a real competition between the teams to see who was going to come in first place! Everyone seemed to enjoy it and have fun. Afterwards we all enjoyed desserts and different snack food everyone brought. We also played a bunch of other fun games as well like Dutch Blitz, UNO and spoons. The English school hosts social outreach events at the school or sometimes at another location to give us more opportunities to be able to get to know our students more outside of the class.