In truth, this week has been really quiet so I don't have a huge amount to report. I've been spending a bit of time playing catch-up and making up for missed lessons with some classes, while with others I've been wrapping up my lessons completely (as my timetable changed on Thursday). This has meant that I've been treated to multiple talent shows this week and a wide variety of acts including break-dancing, ballet, science experiments, the flute and even half an hour of English karaoke. 

Thinking about it, pretty much all of my social outings into Warsaw this week have revolved around food. My friends and I discovered a lovely little chocolate shop full of solid chocolate sculptures on Tuesday, a cute vegan street food place on Friday and a Czech restaurant that we visited with all the Warsaw volunteers to celebrate our friend's birthday. Perhaps when the sun comes out we will spend less time indoors and eating... But I doubt it.  

Jessica:)

In most of my classes before the break we were still continuing with the set 
lesson plans as all the classes are at different stages of the schedule. I 
don't have any qualms with this to be honest, it means I can run the 
plasticine activity for a few weeks! In a couple of the lessons, however, the 
teachers and I did special Easter themed classes. These were really engaging 
for me because Easter in Australia is quite a commercial event whereas in 
Poland (as I was learning), it is still a very family-orientated and 
traditional holiday. In truth my Easter became family orientated as my brother 
decided to visit Warsaw from the UK. It was lovely to see him but 
unfortunately the rain and cold followed him here from England. 

Over the Easter week, I visited Prague with my brother and a few of my friends 
who live around Poland. To begin with I was nervous about spending so much 
time in Prague but we left not having done everything and very keen to go 
back! It's a beautiful city and while we were there Easter markets were dotted 
around the city so we passed many an hour sampling all the Czech food and 
drink we could.

My past week (or three days) at school have been much the same as usual with 
the addition of a new lesson 'Poland's Got Talent'. During this class the kids 
stand in front of their peers and (in English) present their talent or a 
collection or something they're proud of. Every time we ran this lesson I was 
amazed at the students' courage to sing or dance or show off their personal 
sketch book for their friends. It's so lovely to see confident kids and to 
know that they feel comfortable and safe enough at school to do that.

My weekend's been quite low-key. I feel like it's gone very quickly, but I 
think that's just because I'm not used to being a normal adult and working on 
Fridays! Saturday was beautiful so I went into town with my friends and saw a 
completely different Warsaw to the one I've been living in for months. The 
streets were bustling and I'm sure I saw more people while wondering around 
yesterday than I have done in the whole two and a half months I've been here. 
It was wonderful and I cannot wait to keep exploring the Warsaw and Poland in the sunshine!

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