new address

Сэт Спенсер
Областной Многопрофильныи Лицей
Ул. Ленина 12 Пос. Юбилеиный
Луганск 91493
Украина
So here is my address that should actually work from now on. You can send packages here, and anything else. Sorry there was such confusion before. The best way to do this is just copy and paste it into another document and then print this and tape it to a letter.

Anyways, I will try to fill you in on what I have been up to the past week. I am now on my third week of teaching, and have already learned a lot of very useful teaching skills, the main one being learning how to get your student’s to shut their mouths and listen to the immensely important information you are about to bestow upon them! This is of course a learning process, so for all those teachers/educators out there, any and all advice would be greatly appreciated.
Last week was pretty exciting, what with tea with my 11th grade students, where we talked about anything and everything they could think of to ask me. Very interesting to hear what 11th graders think/want to know about Americans in general, but specifically American movies, music, and American men. The next day I was asked to write a letter in English about what I was doing at the lyceum for one of the teacher’s masters thesis she was presenting the next week. I thought this was kind of cool, so I wrote something up, not knowing that the next day I had to have a fully staged photo shoot with about half the students, many of whom I don’t even teach. We did a couple ones were I was ‘pretending’ to teach them, and so I just started speaking English, pretty quickly, and you could see a look of complete confusion pass over all of the student’s faces. It was interesting to say the least. My counterpart (Albina) has been very sick over the past two weeks, so I have kind of just been on my own. I come to class when I am supposed to, read a lot in my spare time, and plan for class. Not always the most exciting life, but I can’t really complain.
Last Thursday I went into Lugansk to write some e-mails and check out some more books in English, and I ended up meeting 3 different people who speak English at the internet café. The first one was a guy from Syria who is in Lugansk studying accounting. He has a friend who I have also met from Iraq, actually from Baghdad, who was basically forced to leave by insurgents… very interesting talking with him. Another one was a Ukrainian English teacher who just wanted to know why an American was in Ukraine, and the last one was probably the most interesting, basically cause I had heard so much about this problem, but had never met anyone who caused this stereotype. Basically what I mean was that he was a retired businessman in his mid-40s from somewhere in New York, and when I asked why he was in Ukraine, he immediately responded, “looking for a girl.” While I admit there are many beautiful women here, I still can’t imagine people coming here purely to find a wife… its not hard to figure out why not all Ukrainians like America all that much.
Anyways, spent the weekend going to the library to talk about brainteasers in English, and then Saturday night going to a Ukrainian family’s house who is a friend of Brian, the other volunteer here in Lugansk. It was a great night, and very cool to meet more people in the area. Not a whole lot going on this week, except going to a party that Brian is having tonight, and this weekend going to a city about 2 hours away from here, where another volunteer is placed.
I think that’s all for now, sorry not to exciting. Love to here back from all of you.
Miss you all,
-Seth