Wow, so my second month here is finished now! Only 9 months left, time must be somehow passing faster in Estonia!
October held a lot of interesting activities, experiences and things for me. That includes...
O as in Orange leaves
C as in Coldness
T as in Travelling
O as in Opening event for student companies (and Other stuff I did)
B as in Birthday party and Brain game
E as in Eating in good pubs and bistros
R as in Random people talking to me in Estonian
October started on monday. For some reason, that has been something good for me, it was easy to know the day i was living. Every day i´ve been looking through the window, watching the trees losing all their leafs, and the grass covered by ice in the morning. The winter has come (At least, for me). There was even snow already. Snow in October (what!?, OMG!!). I will talk about that further.
3. oktoobril jagati välja Valgamaa aasta õpetaja tunnustused. Aasta õpetaja tiitli pälvis Tõrva gümnaasiumi ajalooõpetaja Eve Tilk, kes ühtlasi sai tunnustatud ka aasta klassijuhataja tiitliga.
Millised emotsioonid teid valdasid? Kas oskasite midagi sellist ette oodata?
Sain suure üllatuse osaliseks, kui leidsin postkastist teate, et minu kandidatuur on esitatud aasta õpetaja 2018 konkursile klassijuhataja kategoorias. Lugesin saadud kirja lausa mitu korda. Veelgi ootamatum oli see, et osutusin üheks finalistiks. Üllatused jätkusid, kui sain Valgamaa aasta õpetaja 2018 tiitli.
18. oktoobril kell 18.00 toimub Sangaste lossis seminar "Ekraanid, mis juhivad tänapäeva kooli". Seminari juhib Keeni põhikooli projektijuht Marju Varblane.
Seminarile on vajalik eelregistreerimine, mida saab teha siin: registreerimisvorm. Registreerimine on avatud kuni 17. oktoobrini kell 12.00. Kohtade arv piiratud!
2015. aasta sügisel, kui alustasime koostöös peakorraldaja, Türgi kooliga, projekti kirjutamist, oli nii Türgi kool kui ka teised partnerid teadlikud Eesti kõrgest tasemest IT-vahendite ja tänapäevaste õppemeetodite kasutamise osas. Teised partnerkoolid Satu Marest (Rumeenia), Vastost (Itaalia), Arcos de Valdevezist (Portugal) ja Bozüyükist (Türgist) aga alles tegid esimesi samme selles osas. Keeni Põhikooli õpetajad oma kogemuste ja oskustega õppijakesksete meetodite rakendamise ning heal tasemel tehniliste õppevahendite kasutamisega olid siin projektis suunanäitajateks ja mentoriteks.
Tere! My name is Gabriel Escobar Martín, and i´m a 22 years-old photographer from Murcia, a medium-sized city in the south-west of Spain (Medium-sized in Spain, in Estonia it would be a very big metropolis). I finished video and photography studies in February and i started to work in a regional newspaper. After some months working in something that i really like (taking pictures) i decided to do something else with my life so, now, I´m doing a EVS in Tõrva, working mainly in Ritsu Youth Room and in Tõrva noortekeskus -but also all around Valga County- with youngsters. How has been my experience after one month (and six days) in Estonia?
A couple of months ago, when i tell to my friends and family i was going to live eleven months in Estonia, they always asked two questions «Where is that?» and «Why?». I had a response for the first question, but not for the second one.