We took off on 22th of April at 7 o’clock in the morning and we landed around 14:30. Our flight was quite long but it was also nice, actually I felt it shorter, than it was. Glynis was waiting for us at the airport and she took us to a typical American restaurant called Silver Diner. Daniela surprised us because she joined us for a short conversation. I went to bed after half past nine because Daniela told us it would make easier our next day.
Sunday was a great day. We went to sightseeing so we could see the Lincoln Memorial, Washington memorial, the White House and so on. We had lunch in a nice park in front of a Chagall painting. In the evening we were invited to Glynis’s home for BBQ. It was also a great experience to participate in a real American BBQ. The food was excellent and it was nice to see again our teaching partners.
Today morning everything went so slow. We had to wait so long for our breakfast, I even couldn’t eat it in the hotel because we had to leave but our bus driver was nowhere, so we were worried because we didn’t want to be late on our first day in the school. But finally everything went well and everybody was really nice to us. We watched the Holocaust Memorial which was really dignified. Than we took a look around the building. It was really useful, we got inspiration how to continue improving our school but we also realized our school is much smaller so it quite hard to find place for all nice ideas. I observed a few lessons. All of lessons were so instructive. I watched a lesson where children talked about resistor. They were really clever and patient, it was nice to see that kind of conversation. I also watched a lesson where Daniela explained some new things and then children had to teach each other. After school we visited Sunflower Bakery which was also nice experience. We had a lovely dinner in a Kosher restaurant.
