As a part of our project we were trained to communicate, so I'd like to share about the way it went...
At the first time I was really shocked to face that I'm a little bit, but SHY person, and as you now it's the first enemy of communication. The point is that in this way your dialog turns out as a play, because your words sound as you were looking for them the whole life... In a word, not a good thing:). However some time of practice took it away. The other thing that I've learnt is body-language. You know there is a joke:
" -How many languages you speak?
-Two.
-???
-My native & body. "
Actually, after our class I don't think that it's a joke, because we can "speak" with our bodies. However, there is another thing, that, actually, we can "tell" something that we didn't want to with our bodies or we can even be rude. So practice did help a lot in this way also.
In conclusion, I'd like to say that these two things turned out really important for me.
Monday, January 3, 2011
Some things we should think about
Well, I was trying to decide what topic to choose. Actually I wanted to post something really useful, some things, which are simply the truth of our life and to which we are too busy to pay attention. So, here they are...
"It takes only a minute to get a crush on someone, an
hour to like someone, and a day to love someone-but it
"Always put yourself in the other's shoes. If you feel that it
"A careless word may kindle strife. A cruel word may wreck
a life. A timely word may level stress. But a loving word may
heal and bless."
On the second day God created the monkey. God said, "Entertain people, do monkey tricks and make them laugh. I'll give you a twenty-year life span." The monkey said, "Monkey tricks for twenty years? I don't think so. Dog gave you back ten, so that's what I'll do too, okay?"
And God agreed.
On the third day God created the cow. "You must go to the field with the farmer all day long and suffer under the sun, have calves, and give milk to support the farmer. I will give you a life span of sixty years."
The cow said, "That's kind of a tough life you want me to live for sixty years. Let me have twenty and I'll give back the other forty."
And God agreed again.
On the fourth day God created man. God said, "Eat, sleep, play, marry and enjoy your life. I'll give you twenty years."
Man said, "What? Only twenty years? Tell you what, I'll take my twenty, and the forty the cow gave back, and the ten the monkey gave back, and the ten the dog gave back, that makes eighty, okay?"
Okay," said God, "You've got a deal."
So that is why the first twenty years we eat, sleep, play, and enjoy ourselves; the next forty years we slave in the sun to support our family; the next ten years we do monkey tricks to entertain the grandchildren; and the last ten years we sit on the front porch and bark at everyone.
Life has now been explained to you."
hour to like someone, and a day to love someone-but it
takes a lifetime to forget someone."
hurts you, it probably hurts the person too."
a life. A timely word may level stress. But a loving word may
heal and bless."
"When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one that has opened for us."
- Alexander Graham Bell
- Alexander Graham Bell
And now I would like to present you a story that was written by Russian writer Lermantov and has ben translated into English...
"On the first day God created the dog. God said, "Sit all day by the door of your house and bark at anyone who comes in or walks past. I will give you a life span of twenty years." The dog said, "That's too long to be barking. Give me ten years and I'll give you back the other ten."
So God agreed.On the second day God created the monkey. God said, "Entertain people, do monkey tricks and make them laugh. I'll give you a twenty-year life span." The monkey said, "Monkey tricks for twenty years? I don't think so. Dog gave you back ten, so that's what I'll do too, okay?"
And God agreed.
On the third day God created the cow. "You must go to the field with the farmer all day long and suffer under the sun, have calves, and give milk to support the farmer. I will give you a life span of sixty years."
The cow said, "That's kind of a tough life you want me to live for sixty years. Let me have twenty and I'll give back the other forty."
And God agreed again.
On the fourth day God created man. God said, "Eat, sleep, play, marry and enjoy your life. I'll give you twenty years."
Man said, "What? Only twenty years? Tell you what, I'll take my twenty, and the forty the cow gave back, and the ten the monkey gave back, and the ten the dog gave back, that makes eighty, okay?"
Okay," said God, "You've got a deal."
So that is why the first twenty years we eat, sleep, play, and enjoy ourselves; the next forty years we slave in the sun to support our family; the next ten years we do monkey tricks to entertain the grandchildren; and the last ten years we sit on the front porch and bark at everyone.
Life has now been explained to you."
I guess, we should think now...
Sunday, January 2, 2011
The project that will have enduring ties and loads of happiness
Well, the project that was chosen to be continued is about special education children. Our goal is to make the most comfortable atmosphere for them to study, to make new friends and simply to have fun at school. So, I'd like to share my thoughts and teem's steps during the whole process of reaching our goal.
First, when I've heard that this project was chosen, I'd already done some kind of the same thing, the difference was only one: children, with whom I used to play and tudor in Russia, are homeless. In a word, I knew what to expect, I knew that a lot should be done and everybody should work hard to make our communication comfortable. But the thing that inspired me, the thing that rejoiced me was that all the children, with whom we are working, will get as much warmth as they need and as much friends, or even more, as they need to realize that we are always there for them to help.
Second, when we've started creating our project, the first step was to divide into two groups: "tudor"& "games", to make questions for the teacher, who works with special education kids and who agreed to come to share his experience with us. I'm in a "tudor" group, so we had a bunch of questions, but I had a question that worried me a lot:"Will it be okay for children to talk to me, because of the accent, so will it be okay for them to listen to "not clean"language?"
Third, we finally had a chance to talk to this teacher, he introduced us all the kids we have (power point presentation). Also he answered all of our questions that we had, I received the answer on my question. So I was said that there were no reasons to worry about the accent, that rejoiced me a lot. We've learnt about everyone's personality and it helped us to understand who would have similar character with each special education student. And actually it DID help a lot.
Forth, we started practicing our communicative skills. It was a lot of fun, although I faced that there are some things in my personality that I should work hard on. I didn't actually expect myself to be a little, but SHY person, I didn't expect that each time I'm talking, I really SHOULD watch my words not to hurt someone's feelings. Really, I didn't even care before to smile a lot and try to find and to tell about positives of your talk partner. So this step did take tome to work on myself.
Fifth, we have finally had a chance to meet our children and to talk to them. We've called it "wii operation", so we gave as a Christmas present for kids wii, which was provided by student councils. That was an amazing day, we sang a song for children and introduced ourselves. We gave them a present and they were very happy to meet us all...
Now, I can't wait to see them again, to talk to and simply have fun together!!!
First, when I've heard that this project was chosen, I'd already done some kind of the same thing, the difference was only one: children, with whom I used to play and tudor in Russia, are homeless. In a word, I knew what to expect, I knew that a lot should be done and everybody should work hard to make our communication comfortable. But the thing that inspired me, the thing that rejoiced me was that all the children, with whom we are working, will get as much warmth as they need and as much friends, or even more, as they need to realize that we are always there for them to help.
Second, when we've started creating our project, the first step was to divide into two groups: "tudor"& "games", to make questions for the teacher, who works with special education kids and who agreed to come to share his experience with us. I'm in a "tudor" group, so we had a bunch of questions, but I had a question that worried me a lot:"Will it be okay for children to talk to me, because of the accent, so will it be okay for them to listen to "not clean"language?"
Third, we finally had a chance to talk to this teacher, he introduced us all the kids we have (power point presentation). Also he answered all of our questions that we had, I received the answer on my question. So I was said that there were no reasons to worry about the accent, that rejoiced me a lot. We've learnt about everyone's personality and it helped us to understand who would have similar character with each special education student. And actually it DID help a lot.
Forth, we started practicing our communicative skills. It was a lot of fun, although I faced that there are some things in my personality that I should work hard on. I didn't actually expect myself to be a little, but SHY person, I didn't expect that each time I'm talking, I really SHOULD watch my words not to hurt someone's feelings. Really, I didn't even care before to smile a lot and try to find and to tell about positives of your talk partner. So this step did take tome to work on myself.
Fifth, we have finally had a chance to meet our children and to talk to them. We've called it "wii operation", so we gave as a Christmas present for kids wii, which was provided by student councils. That was an amazing day, we sang a song for children and introduced ourselves. We gave them a present and they were very happy to meet us all...
Now, I can't wait to see them again, to talk to and simply have fun together!!!
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