1st Project Week
(Ok, time to update a lot of stuff, hihi.)
So what exactly is Project week? Well, at Pearson College, there are 2 Project weeks per year in which a student must do at least one project during the 2 years.
The campus closes during these 10 days over project week, and students mostly stay with host families in the area close to where their project is taking place.
My project was the 'Cultural Ambassador' project. The 4 of us - Edwige from Bukinafaso, Stepan from Russia, Andrea from Hong Kong and myself - were to be cultural ambassador at an Elementary school, talking to the kids about our countries and our culture. It was a great project all in all, but with looots of organisational complications which I will, due to nostalgic scars left behind (being a bit overdramatic.. hehe), will not refer to in detail.
In any case, we ended up doing our project in Metchosin instead of Nanoose Bay, also at an Elementary school. Edwige, being a second year and already having done a project in the last year, decided to devote her time to academic work instead of the project.
During the first weekend, the 4 of us stayed with a really lovely host mummy in Metchosin (wonderful Marlene.. :); I was even able to actually cook food for the first time since summer (since Pearson doesn't allow students to have stoves due to fire hazard)!! We all enjoyed my european cuisine of Carrot creme soup and baked chamignon aux sauce tartare.. :D (along with a few of Marlene's great dishes).
After that weekend the 4 of us split up to new host families. Stepan and I stayed with a really nice lady called Irene in Victoria and the other two.. god knows where.. ^^
In any case, working with the children at the Hans Helgensen Elementary school in Metchosin was lots of fun. Stepan and Andrea mostly worked with the elementary students tutoring them in various subjects and I worked with the KG kids during the daytime while I had music lessons with the elementary classes during the afternoon, telling them about my country's worldfamous Mozart, etc. and playing them this and that on the piano.
A lovely week in Metchosin and also a lovely break from Pearson life.
We all ended up hugging each other as soon as we arrived in Pearson College, having have missed everyone. Lots of tears too.. ;P Amazing how one week can turn out to be so long...
That was my report for Project Week Number 1. A couple of photos can be found on the photo link! ;)
Chris
So what exactly is Project week? Well, at Pearson College, there are 2 Project weeks per year in which a student must do at least one project during the 2 years.
The campus closes during these 10 days over project week, and students mostly stay with host families in the area close to where their project is taking place.
My project was the 'Cultural Ambassador' project. The 4 of us - Edwige from Bukinafaso, Stepan from Russia, Andrea from Hong Kong and myself - were to be cultural ambassador at an Elementary school, talking to the kids about our countries and our culture. It was a great project all in all, but with looots of organisational complications which I will, due to nostalgic scars left behind (being a bit overdramatic.. hehe), will not refer to in detail.
In any case, we ended up doing our project in Metchosin instead of Nanoose Bay, also at an Elementary school. Edwige, being a second year and already having done a project in the last year, decided to devote her time to academic work instead of the project.
During the first weekend, the 4 of us stayed with a really lovely host mummy in Metchosin (wonderful Marlene.. :); I was even able to actually cook food for the first time since summer (since Pearson doesn't allow students to have stoves due to fire hazard)!! We all enjoyed my european cuisine of Carrot creme soup and baked chamignon aux sauce tartare.. :D (along with a few of Marlene's great dishes).
After that weekend the 4 of us split up to new host families. Stepan and I stayed with a really nice lady called Irene in Victoria and the other two.. god knows where.. ^^
In any case, working with the children at the Hans Helgensen Elementary school in Metchosin was lots of fun. Stepan and Andrea mostly worked with the elementary students tutoring them in various subjects and I worked with the KG kids during the daytime while I had music lessons with the elementary classes during the afternoon, telling them about my country's worldfamous Mozart, etc. and playing them this and that on the piano.
A lovely week in Metchosin and also a lovely break from Pearson life.
We all ended up hugging each other as soon as we arrived in Pearson College, having have missed everyone. Lots of tears too.. ;P Amazing how one week can turn out to be so long...
That was my report for Project Week Number 1. A couple of photos can be found on the photo link! ;)
Chris
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