Friday, June 3, 2011

The Son Zəng has been Zəng-ed!

Summer is here!  The school year is over!  On May 31st we had "Son Zəng" which literally means "Last Bell" but we would say graduation.  One of my best classes (I wrote about them a few posts ago) was graduating and they asked me to make a speech and sing so I got to be in the ceremony.  I spoke in Azeri (obviously) and I felt more comfortable doing it than last year, so I guess that shows improvement!  And then I sang "Time of Your Life" by Green Day with 3 of my students.  They were so funny about it!  They decided all on their own that we should make cardboard guitars and violins to play when we sang, which I thought took a lot of guts!  Everyone loved the song, even though they couldn't understand it.  They said it was "romantic."  :) Don't worry, I have a video of it and I just might put it on Facebook so you can go look for it!

Now that summer is here that means....more of the same thing!  I'm teaching a second round of computer courses quickly before my sister arrives on June 8th and this time my counterpart Tamilə müəllim is helping me teach which is really exciting.  Makes teaching 6 hours of computers a day (and by that I mean how to point and click a mouse) a bit more bearable!

Right now I'm in Baku (I had meetings all day) and we're about to go out to dinner so I need to stop writing this and get ready!  Delicious food here I come!

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