June 30th English Recital

(From our June 30th English recital)
we did:
Head, Shoulders, Knees, & Toes
the ABC's
& we read the Very Hungry Caterpillar then colored the paper butterflies:)

This event is my most favorite accomplishment to date!!

July 4th week

believe it- this video is from July 5th in Lake Sevan! huge hail, and a vague rainbow.

i spent most of this week enjoying the previously beautiful weather at Lake Sevan with many of the other Peace Corps Volunteers:) most places were closed down on Monday and Tuesday because Armenian Constitution Day is July 5th, and the new group of volunteers found out their sites on Wednesday- so i had most of the week off of regular work. the 3 new volunteers coming to my town & the surrounding villages are very nice and i'm excited for them!

i had a real good time with my friends this week- even wandered around a childrens' art museum in Yerevan before coming home again (Somehow we were a day too early to see the Surrealist exhibition going on at the National Gallery). the Childrens' Aesthetic Museum had an exhibit of childrens' artwork from 120 different countries- i definitely recommend it! (Though the drawing from Iraq will haunt me...)

little flowers

at K1 last week we started growing various types of American flowers in little cups- and already some are almost ready to be replanted in bigger containers! depending on the growth and the weather, we will either plant them around the Kindergarten or send them home with the kids (most are perennial).
i thought it was probably too late in the year to do this project though we did it anyway, but it seems like it's going to be OK!:)

sevan

this weekend i went to Sevan to celebrate the coming of summer weather with my buds Kathryn, Maggie & Hayley:) i am so sunburned- AGHGH

total lunar eclipse

last night i watched the lunar eclipse while i was chatting on skype with Ashley & baby David, & took some pictures throughout the process... this is what i took put all together!:)

if i had photoshop & wasn't using a netbook i think i'd make a lot of these kinds of pictures...

kitties & strawberry jam

this is a picture of Lisa's cat with her kittlings- the lilun in the middle is my favorite- i named him Steve (there is a facial expression that accompanies his name) and i want to adopt him... i know i can't- there are too many reasons why that is a bad idea... :/

this weekend i also made & canned strawberry jam for the first time:)

it turned out so good i'm trying to find more strawberries to buy and make more this week!

Kindergarten #2

Here are some pictures of the all the kids at K2 doing an exercise routine & the K2 playground

Love these kids:) Since graduation, not as many of the older kinders are coming... but the teachers have a lot more free time for me to give my silly English lessons.

We're still mostly doing the alphabet on keyboards... but...!!... one of the older groups and I are planning a little English recital for the end of June. It will be a short line dance to a country music song, a presentation of "Head Shoulders Knees and Toes" and "the ABC's", plus they will all introduce themselves in English to the rest of the kindergarten. Pretty much sums up what I've done here in the last few months:) Exciting!