Our total numbers are 273 with 172 from Lithuania, 69 from Russia, 12 from Poland, 10 from Latvia, 3 from Belorussia, 2 from Norway, and 1 from Moldavia and Ukraine. There are 21 students ages 32-49, 13 students ages 22-31, 16 students ages 19-21 and 222 students age 16. Kind of a young crowd, especially in the dorms...
There is a good mixture of teachers this year--young and old, elementary to university and returnees and first timers. We even have one teacher who lives in Brazil and a couple Lithuanian teachers who live in Denmark. We work well as a team. Our director, Robin, does a wonderful job getting us to collaborate so that we gel as a team. Tomorrow, Jude and I will have supper with a couple from Virginia, who are here to see how an ESL program is run in a foreign country, because they want to go to Botswana to work with the Chinese population there. They are a retired couple. So there's a lot of energy in this group.
Today marked the beginning of this 15 day cycle. Anastasia seems to be the most popular name this year with 15 girls. My students include some more interesting names, some of which I have never had in the past 10 summers. They include Anto, Astia, Sigita, Nikita, Silverijus, Darija, Patrycia, Austeja, Urte, Zane, Rimnydas, Vladislav, and a handful of Grete's, Olga's and Ona's. One of the classes this year in the Advanced level is called Academic Skill--teaching students how to use APA in their writing so that when they enter an English speaking international university, they will have some knowledge of citation and bibliography styles. Most high schools in eastern Europe have no knowledge or use for this. So this is truly "foreign" for all the students.
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Location:Kretingos gatvė,Klaipėda,Lithuania
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