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Here and still coming! NeWsNeWs FrOm RuSsIA!!!
The Daily Grind
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In Pskov Russia you better use those feet for walking, hop on the bus, or Get a taxi! But beware...according to the locals there are two problems...the road and fools...one is always trying to fix the other! You're in for a fun ride no matter what wheels you take! :-D
14 rubles!
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Come with us...on FOOT! We're taking our regular walk from Justin's place of residence to the bus stop. Check out the bazar, side street, and waiting spot! :-D

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A.K.A Beauty and the Beast
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This particular experience was extremely fun despite the fact that the students and my colleague and I had only known each other two days at this point! We started our time tutoring these students with Q&A type sessions and ice breakers. By the way: trying to remember a list of 12 Russian names and one fact about them can be difficult! These students were awesome though. I have much respect for any student who goes to school all day and still wants to learn and practice English in a one bedroom flat from 6pm to 8pm up to three times a week. There were so many shoes by the front door we had to start putting shoes on top of each other. There were at least twenty pairs!
You can see above the task for one of our sessions together was to re-create a version of "Beauty and the Beast" (In English). In Russia the story is known as "The Scarlet Flower." I helped head the "To-do" department and aimed to help organize and draw out the story board. Each pupil chose a part to play in the skit after we counted the number of people we had (everyone DID do a part) and we talked about locations for acting, script, props, etc. After our story board was ready we did a quick run through of the performance and then invited the second tutor group to come and watch the performance (which you can also see above). We had such sincere fun we didn't even notice we ended up staying there longer than two hours.
be social.
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