Nov. Dec.

This year along with teaching I have started a Health Club. During November  an anti violence campaign is shared in the country.  The club wanted to do puppet shows every morning b4 school started to talk about violence in our school, village and in the world.  Every day a different group of girls (and 2 boys) prepared a poster and message to inform us about the types and ways to avoid violence or how to report. They did a great job with very little prompting. The younger grades loved it.  The next project they wanted to do was a Christmas story for our last day b4 vacation celebration.  Again they came up with a script, we found some fabric and made some costumes and presented. 

There was another celebration at our cultural center that the after school activities clubs presented at.  It was a ”Goodbye to Fall” celebration. In Moldova boys and girls start dancing in syn in kindergarten and this was the 1 and 2 grade preforming. They were great, I liked the pic because the only little guy preforming just kept watching the girls and following along...

The group of health education teachers that came last year put on an overnight for the new health educators in the capital. They have been at work now for 4 months and we remember the frustration and isolation along with loneliness we all felt and maybe still feel. This gathering was a time to get together and enjoy stories, time together, share secrets about working here and encourage each other.
We met Santa in the park and got a photo. As you can see we have no snow here.
More to come,
 Love from Moldova, Marcy