Through the Teaching Excellence and Achievement Program, I was partnered with a teacher in Aktobe, Kazakhstan and spent two weeks there. My teaching duties involved creating and implementing lessons for college professors, teachers, and students ranging from elementary to college levels. Besides teaching, I visited the bazaar, went to the sauna, played paintball, home-stayed in a village, and even taught hula hooping at a community center for the deaf! I met amazing people and this blog is created to share my experiences with you. Enjoy!
This is a group of dynamic village teachers that attended my three hour ESL workshop.
Notice that personal space is quite close!
The bazaar is a place where one can shop for everything from dried fruit to socks to Drain-O!
I'm gearing up for a round of paintball!
This is the village in which I home-stayed and the location my Brooklyn school will connect to through World Wise Schools.
One of my best memories of Kazakhstan was teaching English and hula hooping at the community center for deaf people.
